Swanstation (PSX) sound issues

[Dgo]

So I love this emu but I discovered whenever I launch a game with it my windows sound/music is gone. YTube videos stop playing and it tells me to restart my pc because my audio driver isn't recognised or something.

On ra: settingsaudiooutputdevice I notice I can pick from 3 realtek devices and it's selected the first one.

But on my win10 bottom right menu next to the watch and date if I click over the sound icon I can click the very 3 too but it's selected the second device.

If I close swanstation everything goes back to normal. If I pick the same device on ss than on pc I recover sounds on win but ss gets muted.

I don't yet have this issue with beetle psx but I really want to keep using swanstation.

Any tips/ideas? I've been googling but no luck.

[Fried Brains]

Check the advanced properties for your sound device and try unchecking 'allow applications to take exclusive control of this device'.

[Dgo]

Originally posted by Fried Brains:

Check the advanced properties for your sound device and try unchecking 'allow applications to take exclusive control of this device'.

Ok, ok, seems like we are in front of a freaking genius. Thanks!! How did you know this? Did this happen to you too?

Now the issue I have is that having believed that I had to move to beetle hw I can now use both again but a ytber told me beetle hw is better but is more hardware demanding when I would believe the opposite.

Which is the best in your opinion? Fortunatelly I've already made my best/performance settings taking into account my PC. And both look and run great.

[Fried Brains]

There is no best, the HW is for Hardware rendering, which is best for tablets and console systems without a lot of processing power. Swan is a good balance between speed and accuracy. Beetle is accurate and most demanding on your processor.