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These are hardly complex tasks, they could be done by computers from the 70s. It's quite possible that Windows makes a mess of it anyway, of course.

But the top comment was about how interrupts from the network card interfere with interrupts from the sound card so it can't keep its buffer filled. That shouldn't happen.

Unless the CPU just isn't fast enough to do networking and decode or generate the audio at the same time, but then it's never going to work properly.



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