Audacity Forum

you were absolutely right about the soundcard drivers! after directly accessing the system tools and right clicking to have them update all drivers, it suddenly works like a charm. there were also other problems such as youtube videos pausing for a very long time and other applications that use soun...

yes, all the hardware specifics are listed in the first post. This problem might be something to do with soundcard drivers since it also seems to affect wavepad

are you sure security apps are disrupting it? i dont have much other installed anyway, other than mcafee, GOG, and a few webbrowsers. it also does not seem to make a difference if i access the files from a portable hard drive or on the laptops harddrive.

I installed audaciity 2.4.2 on a new laptop HP, windows 10 home. HP Laptop 14s-dk0xxx AMD ryzen 5 3500U 2.1Ghz 8GB RAM 5.92 usable 64 bit operating system x64 based processor when using it on this laptop , it usually goes into a (not responding) state after a single click of the play button and take...