r/VoiceMeeter

I'm having issues with crackling audio in Voicemeeter on Windows 10, with an AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT GPU.

I can reproduce the problem mainly when the GPU is under a somewhat heavier load.

An easy way I've found to reproduce it is by enabling hardware acceleration in Google Chrome. If I keep switching between tabs, the audio starts crackling until I click "Restart Audio Engine" in Voicemeeter. When I disable hardware acceleration, the problem stops occurring.

All my audio devices are set to the same sample rate (48 kHz).

Is anyone else experiencing this issue? I'd like to keep hardware acceleration enabled because some websites I use become significantly slower without it.

I set up Voicemeeter recently, n I'm coming across 2 issues. I'll put up a screenshot of my Voicemeeter if that helps somehow.

1st being that it keeps turning off my wireless headset and possibly super draining the battery of it, but I'm not 100% sure yet.

2nd is that sometimes the audio appears buffery from the output.

I wanted to set up Voicemeeter mainly to have more control of my mic audio, but then I ended up setting up my audio from it too, since the video I followed also did it, n I thought it could be a quality of life thing. I can't seem to figure out why my issues happen, which kinda makes me wanna go back, but I'll see if I can find some more help before I do anything like that.

To give more details for the first issue, how I like to have my setup is that I use my speaker for most stuff, like watching shows or whatever, but when I'm in call or playing games, I switch to my headset. But now with Voicemeeter, I've realized that my headset just randomly turns off and sometimes refuses to stay back on, n once or twice it felt like my battery went from 80% to zero in like a sec. But I wasn't really measuring it, so I can't say for certain that it drained my battery, but I'm like 80% sure. I've also noticed that if I plug my headset into my pc, it doesn't seem to turn off.

If anyone knows what's up or needs more details, lmk please.

Here's the guide I followed: https://youtu.be/pEd7jw0uNE4?si=66cPf2GO5d5H2YMN