https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Windows-Guest-Video-Sound-Static-Stutter-Out-of-Sync-Solved/m-p/2944509#M179215 <P>Config: ASRock 4x4 4800U 64G memory physical NVME drives.&nbsp;&nbsp; Host Windows 10.&nbsp;&nbsp; Guest any version of Windows.</P><P>VMWare Workstation 16 or 17.</P><P>Playing video on Windows media play or VLC the sound would have static stutter or video/audio would be out of sync.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>What I found.&nbsp;&nbsp; Guest configured with multiple CPUs and multiple NVME drives.&nbsp;&nbsp; Changing from NVME to SCSI seemed to fix the issue.&nbsp;&nbsp; It seems NVME was the main culprit.&nbsp;&nbsp; I also believe using multiple virtual CPUs is part of the issue.&nbsp;&nbsp; There seems to be some latency with video/audio when using NVME and multiple CPUs.</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Sun, 18 Dec 2022 20:34:05 GMT kasper 2022-12-18T20:34:05Z https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Windows-Guest-Video-Sound-Static-Stutter-Out-of-Sync-Solved/m-p/2944509#M179215 <P>Config: ASRock 4x4 4800U 64G memory physical NVME drives.&nbsp;&nbsp; Host Windows 10.&nbsp;&nbsp; Guest any version of Windows.</P><P>VMWare Workstation 16 or 17.</P><P>Playing video on Windows media play or VLC the sound would have static stutter or video/audio would be out of sync.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>What I found.&nbsp;&nbsp; Guest configured with multiple CPUs and multiple NVME drives.&nbsp;&nbsp; Changing from NVME to SCSI seemed to fix the issue.&nbsp;&nbsp; It seems NVME was the main culprit.&nbsp;&nbsp; I also believe using multiple virtual CPUs is part of the issue.&nbsp;&nbsp; There seems to be some latency with video/audio when using NVME and multiple CPUs.</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Sun, 18 Dec 2022 20:34:05 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Windows-Guest-Video-Sound-Static-Stutter-Out-of-Sync-Solved/m-p/2944509#M179215 kasper 2022-12-18T20:34:05Z