Stable - Windows 10 - xaudio issue

[ReiKaz]

Environment information
Steam version: Regular
OS: Windows 10 Pro (22H2, OS build: 19045.2251)
RetroArch version: Stable
CPU: Intel Core i5-7200U
GPU: AMD Radeon R7 M445
Video/Audio/Input driver: d3d11 - xaudio - dinput

Expected behavior
Audio work all the time.

Actual behavior
Starting game audio is silenced (game audio and RetroAch sound effects)
Doing Fast forward (start and stop) or Pause/Un-Pause multiple times - audio starts working, but after some time audio becomes silence again.
Doing Fast forward (start and stop) or Pause/Un-Pause multiple times - audio stays silent, but some times "cracking" sound effects is heard.

Steps to reproduce the bug
Just run any Dreamcast game (in my case "Resident Evil 2 (USA)") on Flycast core.
If audio is working, press Fast Forward or Pause hotkey multiple times untill audio stops working.

Troubleshooting Steps / Actions Taken
Pressing Fast Forward or Pause hotkey multiple times audio starts working temporary. After some minutes of playing - audio becomes silent again.


PLEASE!!! Take a look at this :) other audio drivers have issues (working with "cracking" sounds) for RE2, but xaudio have perfect sound - but don't work all the time.

[76561199249658882]

Has this behavior been specific to either xaudio or Flycast, or the combination of both?

[ReiKaz]

Tested some other systems cores with xaudio plugin. Yep.. looks like problem is same!

Small notices:
"Mute When Fast-Forwarding [OFF]", but fast-forwarding with xaudio - always with no audio.
After stopping fast-forwad sometimes audio resume/sometimes stays with no audio.

Action - Opening quick-menu:
sometimes UI sound effects have no audio
sometimes opening quick-menu sound effects working.

Action - Closing quick-menu:
Sometimes game have audio.
Sometimes no audio in game.

Could be something with emulator, and not with xaudio core itself?!

[76561199249658882]

Can you go to the RetroArch folder and rename your retroarch.cfg temporarily and check if you can reproduce? When it is broken does toggling fullscreen fix the audio?

A developer was unable to reproduce your issue and stated the audio always recovers after a fast forward based on the setup your described.

You could also attempt using the nightly branch for the newest fixes (and bugs!).

[ReiKaz]

Thank you for taking a look! Yes this is something with settings, with new default retroarch.cfg, xaudio now works how intended, no problems (only some cracking sounds.. this is not related).
*Just one small weird thing, no matter "Mute When Fast-Forwarding" [OFF] or [ON] - doing fast forward audio always gets muted.

I can only assume about broken audio problems in RetroArch I had - it was something to do with "mute"/fast-forward/frames or audio sync/latency/other audio settings?!


If this problem could appear for others, or for curiosity what went wrong - there's problematic settings used (just removed accounts info, url's, etc.):
https://pastebin.com/j1b3rvak

Hot keys:
Quick menu LShift+F1
Fast-Forward LShift+-
Paue LShift+Space