Does lowering the audio output increase the global performance?

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#1

Hi Guys,

the wiki suggests to lower a bit the audio output rate to improve the frames rate, if I dramatically low down the output quality like 32Khz or 22.05Khz does it bring any improvement to global experience (with a lower audio quality)?

Thanks,

D.

#2

I believe that document is suggesting that some sound cards want to output a certain rate and not being at that rate causes another round of resampling to get it to the appropriate rate. That is, I don’t think it’s suggesting that lower audio rates make higher performance. It’s still having to be resampled either way.

#3

At this point I’ll try to see what actually is going to happen… :grin:

#4

You were right, it doesn’t change anything. Laggy sound still continues to be laggy, no improvement unfortunately :frowning:

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