In both Sonic Colors and Xenoblade, I tried to replicate the sound glitches that I heard in your clips. (I couldn't hear them when playing through my regular speakers, so I put on my headset and could hear them in the background)
I heard the sound problems in the DSound and OpenAL backends, but could not in XAudio2 with a latency of 2 for SC. Xenoblade gave some sound glitches on all. See if that works for you. If not, the sound problems go away once you get past the main menu on both.
I can indeed replicate this issue but in my opinion it is a very minor problem. I had to turn up the volume to double what I normally play at to even hear the static. And even then I did not find it distracting because it wasnt there the entire time I played (as mentioned by KHg8m3r). I am not trying to belittle the issue, I just wanted to give my honest feedback.
I do want to stress that I WAS able to replicate it using Xenoblade with 4.0
Thanks for the honest testing haddock.
Are you using headphones or speakers? I can clearly hear the crackling in my headphones and even on my speakers even if I have it turned pretty low.
Suffice to say, I checked out the intro a couple of times and it was very clear. No crackling, popping, etc from what I've heard. I wonder what causes it on the main menu.
I use speakers but for this test i literally sat in front of my TV (all of 24 inches from it) and I had a hard time hearing it. I completely understand how crazy static can make you. I was one of the most adamant ppl on that 1.5 hour crackling bug awhile back. Drove me bat shit crazy. But luckily enough ppl experienced it and it made the games unplayable enough to where the devs addressed it.
There was a major change to the audio backend (HLE and the crackling I just mentioned) so could this be a byproduct of one or both? Since it gets dumped into the file does that mean it comes from AudioCommon? I think that is the same place the other crackling came from.
Hey.
I found this post on Google and I apologize for necro-ing a thread, but I too have a high-end machine (An MSI GT72) and I too encountered the crackling problem while playing NCAA Football 2005. However, I fixed it with something rather simple that you may want to try when running the emulator.
Do you have a browser running while emulating? I usually have Firefox running when I'm emulating and get the crackling sound.
However, as soon as I closed my browser, the crackling problem went away.
So it may be a software conflict.
The latest build is 4.0-4909, try that out and see of you still have crackling.
The reason you're probably getting that crackling is because Dolphin is not being played in an optimal setup of software. I try not to run anything else while I run Dolphin.
Also, check this thread out to make sure you're running at maximum power on both the CPU and GPU:
https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-unofficial-laptop-performance-guide
Try to change FPS sometimes is auto sometimes audio. Try. I was solution for me.
Frame limit by audio was removed from the dev builds because it broke stuff