Sound in UI sometimes stutters

[Former user]

When navigating around inside LB/BB with sound enabled, the sounds seem to not play back smoothly all the time. Like, if the interface is busy creating cache for box art or something the sounds seem to stutter a bit.

I'm not sure if the reason is because I have everything on a USB Hard Disk, and maybe the disk is busy and the sounds can't be loaded quickly enough. Or maybe the sound playback doesn't have a high enough priority. Maybe loading the UI sounds into ram and keeping them there would help if you're not already doing that?

[Jason Carr]

Thank you Anonymous; I've put quite a bit of work into the prioritization stuff for the audio to help with this, but I know that it is occasionally still occurring. I don't see it much on my setup, but I'm sure that performance issues can still cause it. I'm using DirectX XAudio2 for the sound via SharpDX and for some reason I can't seem to force it to prioritize the sounds over everything else. I'll come back to this soon.