I again re-booted the VM and re-launched just to be sure, and yes, still working fine. Lastly, keeping Simon the Sorcerer 4 installed, I installed a fresh copy of Wing Commander IV in the now 'working' VM.Īmazingly, the sound now works perfectly in that game too. Back into the Simon the Sorcerer 4 copy of the VM and all was still working. In there, the crackling and distortion was still an issue. To make sure nothing in Windows 11 was affecting this in any way, I booted a copy of the same Windows XP VM in which I had installed Wing Commander IV.
are still crackling and breaking up, but in-game the issue is avoided.
Strangely, the system sounds such as 'Windows login' etc. I shutdown the VM and booted fresh, and again, the sound in that game was working perfectly. When I ran it, I realized that the sound was working normally, which was a great surprise. Through trial and error, I took the same copy of the VM where I experience the audio distortion, and installed the game Simon the Sorcerer 4 Chaos Happens. I have used the same Windows XP SP3 virtual machine for years now, so I did not re-install Windows or do anything drastic. I have managed to tentatively/partially 'solve' this, to an extent, without needing to resort to concurrently running Windows XP in Virtual Box as described in my earlier post.
