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First post, by robertmo

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Having some audio/video app opened in the background removes stuttering sound in VMWare.
For example VLC media player, coolsoft virtualmidisynth, munt, windows media player, chrome browser, etc.
It doesn't matter if it is opened inside of outside VMWare.

Reply 1 of 3, by realnc

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Hm. Maybe vmware doesn't result in "multimedia timers" being activated on Windows. There's a tiny tool that activates this timer function:

https://vvvv.org/contribution/windows-system-timer-tool

The tool needs to be kept open, otherwise Windows will disable high resolution timers again.

If you run that tool and click "set timer" and the sound stutter disappears, then the issue is indeed vmware not triggering the high resolution timer support in Windows. If it doesn't help, then the problem is something else.

Reply 3 of 3, by realnc

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Just set it to 1ms and leave it open when running vmware. The tool doesn't do anything, actually. It configures the OS timer, and then does nothing. It just has to be open so Windows won't think the high res timer is no longer needed (Windows keeps track of the processes that configured the high res timer; if the process exits, Windows will revert the timer configuration changes.)