> don't get me started on windows settings or audio
I'll bite - what's wrong with the audio? Friends on mine in game dev often complain Linux audio is hopeless to work with.
I'll bite - what's wrong with the audio? Friends on mine in game dev often complain Linux audio is hopeless to work with.
I have a pretty solid Dell laptop from work, and yet, there is one frustration that beats out anything else: audio.
I can't play music without it stuttering and skipping and sounding choppy and cutting out if something resource-intensive is happening, like Firefox loading a new page (but how often does THAT happen?)
Same with audio notifications. When my "new mail" notification sounds choppy, the underlying system must be just absolute garbage.
Used to happen only in Warzone but now I'm noticing it affects games with other engines as well.
Granted I have a very non-standard setup but it shouldn't be causing any of these issues.
I'll disable the speakers on the monitor from the HW menu on the monitor and see if that helps.
For example, figuring out how to configure and test surround sound channels means click through multiple dialogs, and it's not clear how exactly to get there.
With Windows 10, it's even harder to access sound mixer than it was on previous versions, and this is what to use in 99% after clicking on audio icon in the taskbar.
The UI is complete garbage but siblings said enough about that dumpster fire already.
This is especially annoying for audio devices, because lots of applications - and certainly any slightly more advanced setup - require explicit configuration of audio devices and when Windows does its "it's a different thing every time I see it" temper tantrum this means you have to go back to every application and tell it again "Yeah, that OUT3-4 that doesn't exist any more? Use the OUT3-4 that does exist", because the user-visible name stays the same (it's the same hardware, after all), while the underlying ID changes for one reason or another.
This has nothing to do with vendor's drivers btw., this is simply how hotplug works in Windows' driver model.
So no, this is not "working fine".