Debugging why a PlayStation headset dongle freezes all Windows audio

3 pointsposted 7 hours ago
by ullrickrnp

4 Comments

PaulHoule

7 hours ago

Not a big surprise, the Windows audio system is not that robust and will reboot for the slightest reason and I think it's worse in recent versions of Win 11. I did a lot of things to try to get AirPods working properly on Windows and finally gave up because of this sort of instability.

ullrickrnp

7 hours ago

Yeah, windows could handle those sorts of things more gracefully. But I am not at all happy with the way Sony/Playstation handled this.

PaulHoule

6 hours ago

I used to feel that "I can plug so many great things into USB and they work so great!" and now it feels more like playing Russian Roulette. Like I had a Cooler Master keyboard plugged into my computer at work and it turned out that it had been causing interrupt storms for years that was making my computer slow and unresponsive. I plugged in a new keyboard and it was like getting a new computer.

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7 hours ago

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