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Audio System

Specifies the system API used for audio output. It does not affect the game sound engine.

Output Buffer Count

Specifies the number of output buffers the Wwise authoring tool will use when playing sounds and motion effects, balancing output stability versus latency for the current user.

Samples Per Output Buffer

Specifies the number of audio samples per output buffer, balancing output stability versus latency.

Output Latency

Indicates the output latency, as determined by the output buffer parameters.

Music Track look-ahead time (ms)

Specifies the amount of time reserved by the sound engine so it can seek the streaming data. This track-latency time is useful to avoid desynchronization or voice starvation problems when playing back your music objects in Wwise, which result from the fact all objects are streamed when played back in the Wwise authoring application, even if the stream option has not been selected.

Default value: 200
Range: 0 - 10,000
Units: milliseconds

Hardware Devices

Specifies the Audio Device ShareSet and hardware device attached to a Master Bus. The list of devices contains all the supported devices by the currently active Audio Device plug-ins. It is possible that a hardware device is present multiple times in the list, if it can be accessed through different plug-ins. When left to Default, the device is selected by the Audio Device plug-in used by the bus. If that Audio Device plug-in is not available on Windows, it will fall back to the Windows' Default Audio Device. This selection is used only for the current user, not in game.