Music on VLC constantly lags/buffers while playing games

When I play Call of Duty, I like to play music in the background on the PC. I've been doing this for several years and had no issues, but for the past month now VLC (at some point), lags really bad or even stops playing the music until I quit the game. I've increased the file and network cache size in VLC preferences to 3500ms and the problem persists. I've also tried reinstalling VLC.

No system changes were made on my PC, I'm running 4GB of RAM which copes just fine with both CoD and VLC running concurrently (about 1.9GB gets used), no new applications have been installed on my PC and malware scans with McAfee, Malwarebytes and AVG have not picked up any malware that could be causing interference. All music is stored locally on my PC and not streamed.

What could be the cause for this and what can I do to fix it?

No_One

Posted 2019-02-19T13:10:55.533

Reputation: 1

See if there is a newer driver for your sound card. – Moab – 2019-02-19T14:07:48.297

Answers

Your PC is getting old to, you know.. I'm 90% sure is a problem with PC, not VLC. Check you computer processes to see what uses memory and processor.

Software Geek

Posted 2019-02-19T13:10:55.533

Reputation: 11

CPU and RAM were running fine. It was one of the first things I checked and CPU was running at around 30-something % and and less than 2GB of RAM total was used. It was mainly Steam using most of the RAM. – No_One – 2019-02-19T13:22:15.503

And have you tried to re-install VLC? – Software Geek – 2019-02-19T13:25:15.663

Yea, I have tried that as well – No_One – 2019-02-19T13:27:27.347

Maybe it's a problems with updates. Reading another forums I see that such a problem is common enough. Maybe you can try MPC player? – Software Geek – 2019-02-19T13:28:49.273