Sounds (or mixer) seems "off" just after launching game

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1. Title: Sounds (or mixer) seems "off" just after launching game
2. Reproduction Rate: 2/3
3. Blocker? no
4. Details: After first starting game and entering first scene, the scene sounds (streaming water) seem to play at near full volume, without much respect to distance. I used the POT Crossroads for this test.
5. Steps to Reproduce: Go into a scene, close to some water. Quit the game. Restart the game and resume inside the scene. Notice that for the first several minutes, the water sound will play extremely loud, no matter how far away from it you walk. Yes, it does reduce slightly, but never to 0. Now walk around or wait for several minutes. Walk back to the water and then away from it, using the same path as before. Now notice that the water sound does eventually reduce to 0 as intended.
6. User Specs:

Microsoft Windows 7 Pro SP 1
Intel Core i7-4790K
RAM 16 GB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (driver 381.65)
Samsung SSD 840 EVO (500GB)​

 

Bug #: 47649. Thank you!