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Bug 4289

Summary: DirectSound: Strong noise after killing of app that using DirectSound on Windows 10
Product: SDL Reporter: Vitaly Novichkov <admin>
Component: audioAssignee: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: major    
Priority: P2    
Version: HG 2.1   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Windows 10   

Description Vitaly Novichkov 2018-10-01 20:54:23 UTC 
While running an audio stream by SDL Audio with using of DirectSound audio driver on Windows 10, the killing or suspending of application will cause a strong woodpecker noise that will never go away even after sound card driver toggling off/on. The only reboot is able to get rid of this.

However, after a little research, a simple DirectSound demo app also causes the reproducing of this bug:
https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/8396/Using-DirectSound-to-Play-Audio-Stream-Data

Possibly it's a bug of Windows 10 itself, or, sound card driver or Direct X itself.

Windows 10 Home 64-bit (10.0, Build 17134)

The sound card is ASUS Xonar DSX.

The bug was reported by a user of one of my projects. I did the test on my VM and bug doesn't reproduce.

The test was done on a 64-bit operating system with a 32-bit app build. The bug doesn't reproduce with a 64-bit app build.

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Does anyone have a similar issue with this?

So, I'll report this to M$ right now. But maybe can you make a workaround for this?
Comment 1 Sam Lantinga 2018-10-01 21:46:52 UTC 
This is a bug in Microsoft's DirectSound wrapper around WASAPI in Windows 10. We recommend using the SDL WASAPI driver directly to avoid these issues.