Was messing around with retroarch today on a psone core and I’ve been getting real bad audio crackling. Neverwinter Nights the enhanced edition sometimes crackles too but not the old windows xp version.
Is it an issue with my laptop’s hardware?
edit included a speccy ss
Which PS1 core?
Also your laptop is such beautiful stank. Mmmm, Ivy Bridge.
Beetle I tried so far, yeah it’s a potato laptop.
Maybe Duckstation/Swanstation would work better?
I think I fixed it, I mucked around with the framerate settings and matched it to my desktop, reduced the sound popping by quite a lot
With those specs, I’m pretty confident you could run DuckStation, which has never given me trouble with a decade+ old laptop with a weaker GPU
Yeah I think it was a framerate issue, I think I fixed it up tho
Audio processing can be surprisingly intensive, and it’s the most noticeable when it breaks down or isn’t processed quick enough for realtime. I’ve run into it before, for me setting the priority on the process producing crackling audio higher fixed it. Looks like you’re on Windows - it’s doable via Task Manager’s “Details” tab, right click the EXE and there’s a Priority drop down on the context menu.
May also be worth doing driver updates, but I only mess with Windows laptop drives if I have a full system image backed up with Clonezilla or similar.
Alright I’ll try the priority thing, thanks.
