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duncanthrax / scream

Virtual network sound card for Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Public License
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Windows 11 support? #183

Closed ElixBerd closed 2 years ago

ElixBerd commented 2 years ago

Greetings! Much thanks for your project! Is the current version of Scream (3.9) supported by Windows 11? And if not, will you make a version that is supported?

duncanthrax commented 2 years ago

It should work fine, I just didn't update the README yet. If it does not work, report back here and I'll take a look.

ElixBerd commented 2 years ago

It should work fine, I just didn't update the README yet. If it does not work, report back here and I'll take a look.

According to my acquaitance who tried installing Scream on Windows 11, not only it doesn't work, it breaks Windows completely:

  1. All audio devices are vanished
  2. Unable to open any folder in Windows explorer
  3. Unable to launch most apps

And the scariest part is, not even Windows recovery was able to remedy the conequences. She had to format her disk and do a clean installation of Windows 10.

I asked her to register here so maybe she'll provide more input. But after her experience I'm very hesitant to install it, I also have Windows 11. But I still need it because my network DAC uses your protocol.

There's always room for user error but I believe generellay she knows what she's doing. Maybe you can look into it after this feedback?

tnqzh123 commented 2 years ago

I've just installed Scream on Windows 11. It works perfect, except the latency - maybe it is caused by the receiver? I need to figure out...

ElixBerd commented 2 years ago

I've just installed Scream on Windows 11. It works perfect, except the latency - maybe it is caused by the receiver? I need to figure out...

That's great news, at least it works! I'll appreciate if you do look up into that latency issue!

tnqzh123 commented 2 years ago

@ElixBerd This is just my guess, the latency is might caused by the poor network connection.

My receiver (Raspberry Pi 3B+) is connected to the network with Wi-Fi, I found there is a huge and unstable (3ms at least and 50ms highest) latency when I ping it from my Windows PC. Use a wired connection may be better (usually the latency of a wired connection should be around 1ms and much stabler). The poor network connection also caused cranky sounds when sample rate or bitrate is high, I think it is because the network adapter cannot handle such a huge data stream.

Also the Bluetooth connection with my receiver and headset (Sony WH-1000XM3) might cause a bigger latency. I use LDAC codec to get the best sound quality, but as articles I found from Google says, the latency of LDAC could be 200~500ms - which met my situation.

ElixBerd commented 2 years ago

@tnqzh123 thank you very much! I'll try installing Scream on Windows 11 myself next week and with my final feedback will close the issue!

ElixBerd commented 2 years ago

@tnqzh123 It's working!!! Thanks again!