Voicemeeter causing slowdown - Flycast

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#1

Running into an issue on my laptop where Flycast slows down whenever my default audio device is set to Voicemeeter output. Is there a fix for this? If I change my default audio device to something else, it runs perfectly fine. However, getting rid of Voicemeeter isn’t a solution. I want to quickly switch between my headphones and my speakers and Voicemeeter is the only program I could find that can do that with a pres of a button.

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U with Radeon Graphics 4.1GHz 16GB RAM AMD Radeon™ Graphics (specs sheet doesn’t tell me which one) Windows 11 22H2

#2

Try this instead.

It should be much lighter on resources and lets you define hotkeys for devices.

#3

Unfortunately it doesn’t switch when I have Retroarch open. It still plays through my headphones or whatever device is set to the default when Retroarch is booted up.

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#4

Yeah I was worried about that. You can’t even manually switch between audio devices on the fly while RA is running.

I think audio sync has a lot to do with performance, so Retroarch takes control.

Alternatively you could try using stereo mix to output to both devices at the same time.