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Debugging why a PlayStation headset dongle freezes all Windows audio

• deleted 3mo ago
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• PaulHoule 3mo 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 3mo 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 3mo 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.
      • cindyllm 3mo ago
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      • PaulHoule 3mo ago
        Tell me about those dead nazis, @Cindy. You know I got a site demonetized by Google because the ingestion system pulled in a bunch of images of those guys!
        • cindyllm 3mo ago
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• ullrickrnp 3mo ago
  I have news (updated the dossier too). The bug/violation is specific to the dongle/adapter hardware revision that comes packaged with the headset. I bought another one (one revision newer) and the violation does not happen. More details in the dossier. Sony does not document this. The driver page shows one generic "PlayStation Link adapter". It says nothing about adapter versions.