Action! mic crackling + audio desync during recording

[danigomez]

Hi everyone, I’m Dani and I’ve been using Mirillis Action! for recording gameplay and tutorials, but I’ve run into a pretty annoying audio problem I can’t seem to fix. I’m on Windows 11 with an i7 laptop and RTX 3060, using a HyperX Cloud II headset plugged directly into the 3.5mm jack with Realtek audio. When I record with my microphone enabled, everything starts off fine, but after a few minutes the audio slowly goes out of sync with the video, and I also get random crackling or distortion in my voice track, especially when the game audio gets louder. I’ve already tried changing audio formats, lowering bitrate, disabling enhancements, updating drivers, and testing different recording modes, but nothing fully solves it. I’m starting to think it might be a buffering or sync issue between Action! and the audio driver. Has anyone else dealt with this or found a stable setup to avoid it?

[edwardbellin]

Hi everyone, I’m Dani and I’ve been using Mirillis Action! for recording gameplay and tutorials, but I’ve run into a pretty annoying audio problem I can’t seem to fix. I’m on Windows 11 with an i7 laptop and RTX 3060, using a HyperX Cloud II headset plugged directly into the 3.5mm jack with Realtek audio. When I record with my microphone enabled, everything starts off fine, but after a few minutes the audio slowly goes out of sync with the video, and I also get random crackling or distortion in my voice track, especially when the game audio gets louder. I’ve already tried changing audio formats, lowering bitrate, disabling enhancements, updating drivers, and testing different recording modes, but nothing fully solves it. I’m starting to think it might be a buffering or sync issue between Action! and the audio driver. Has anyone else dealt with this or found a stable setup to avoid it?

Yes, this can happen due to audio sync or Realtek driver timing issues. Make sure both your playback and microphone are set to 48 kHz, disable Exclusive Mode, record the mic on a separate track if possible, and test with OBS. If OBS works fine, the issue is likely with Action!; if not, it's probably a Realtek driver or DPC latency problem.