Is there anything I can do to lessen it? I know my computer probably isn’t exactly high end and audio is sorta tied to framerate. What’s kinda weird is the gameplay is butter smooth with no dips in framerate or stutters at all yet the audio sounds as if I have 10 FPS. Even in less intensive 2D games the crackling is still there. In the standalone the audio is perfect but there’s a stutter every few seconds that I can’t seem to eliminate so I prefer Retroarch’s core.
you can check your log to see if it’s spamming any messages that could be related.
I think it’s just the core. Etrian Odyssey is an example of a game with very crackly audio for example. The games run at 100% speed and I can set a really large audio buffer but nothing I change seems to affect it.
Nothing out of the ordinary launch messages.
[QUOTE=larch1991;40074]I think it’s just the core. Etrian Odyssey is an example of a game with very crackly audio for example. The games run at 100% speed and I can set a really large audio buffer but nothing I change seems to affect it.[/QUOTE]
Probably. I can set the latency down all the way and it makes it even worse but one tick above that and it sounds no different than if I had set it to the highest setting.
Try disabling Hard GPU sync in Video settings. Or put it on 1 frame instead of 0.
In core Options, lower JIT block size is harder on CPU. Try to increase it (but it lowers compatibility for some games).