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?
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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.