[FIX (kind of)] Focusrite Audio Card randomly desynchronize and becomes a auditive nightmare

[Loé]

I've bought a focusrite audio card at some point to replace my older one, but lately it became desynchronizing randomly and the sound on games becomes distorted like it's slowed down but keeping the pitch the same, and it's basically atrocious.

It's not happening only for cs2 in my case, but since I play it a lot lately and I've seen other people on this forum talking about the problem, I thought about sharing my fix.

It's not a complete fix. I think the problem comes from my audio manager in my computer, maybe I have too much audio cards registered and my computer burns, but I don't know exactly. All I know is that restarting my audio driver fixes the problem (until it shows up again).

So I made a bat file, here is the gist from my GitHub, feel free to take it. I tried compiling it, but I could not manage to do so because I'm dumb. But yeah, happy fixing!



https://gist.github.com/LouisGJBertrand/53c713cb074407b89153cfd986df9c76

(if you are scared of the link here is a small snipet that is actually required for this fix)

net stop AudioSrv
net start AudioSrv

you just have to put it in a .bat file and execute as administrator. the gist showcases the bat file that asks you for admin automatically so you don't have to hit right click execute as admin. but it's not mandatory

[Loé]

if you want to know exactly what net stop AudioSrv does:

it just stops your audio server,

net start AudioSrv restarts it

so yeah, pretty small and temporary fix, but it works for me