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Hello all, I was wondering if anyone else has had this issue or knows of a solution/workaround. In short, I am experiencing the same issue as seen in these threads:

https://forum.thegamecreators.com/thread/226308
https://forum.thegamecreators.com/thread/219938

When I try to play any sound, the game usually lags/stops for a split second. This happens around 80% of the time, and only on Android; I've never experienced this on Windows or iOS. This issue has happened to me on both the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra (released in 2022) and on the Goodle Pixel 4a (released in 2020).

I have tried the following fixes, but none have solved the issue:

-Converting the sound file to stereo instead of mono (sound was already in stereo, tried it in both stereo and mono).
-Making the sound longer than .5 seconds.
-Having the sound be in .ogg instead of .wav; on my current project, the sounds are in .ogg and are still causing the issue, similar to previous projects, where the sounds were in .wav format.
-Turning on/off VSync.

Here is a video I found that shows the issue as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpQoNaR9Szo

Is there any known solution to this problem? Thank you!

hi, CommanderJersey.

a user HERE suggests using PlayMusicOGG while it may not be a viable solution if you need to "control music and sound volume independently".

Yeah, I've struggled with this a lot. You can use the PlayMusicOGG option for a moderate performance improvement, but then your audio samples will click/pop whenever they have to play over each other (such as when shooting a weapon repeatedly) because the sound sample is abruptly stopped to be restarted again (the music option doesn't support multiple instances of playback like PlaySound does). And you lose a variety of controls. Ironically, performance is also often worse on PC with the MusicOGG option as well.

There appears to be no effective programmer-side solution. It seems related to and primarily impacted by the performance of some devices (and yes, some older devices are able to handle audio sequences far better than more 'current' devices). It seems that an initial PlaySound request can take upwards of around 0.3 seconds on some devices, with later repeat playback taking anywhere from 0.01-0.03 or so (times and durations of stutters may vary). When AGK/S hands over a sound sample to the device's audio stack, it may be the method and/or the device itself that may be running into the problem of not sufficiently threading or otherwise handling the playback. If it can be improved, it's probably up to TGC for a solution.

that's what rick elluded to 2 years ago, then GGMax happened.

i think paul is involved with AppGameKit again in some capacity and hope this finally gets resolved soon between him, mike and whatever decisions TGC make for the next update...

Latest updates continue to suffer with this issue. I wouldn't mind a slight stutter/delay in just the audio itself, but the effect it has on stuttering the framerate is pretty severe. Hopefully this will be addressed soon.