I'm having an issue with audio in an XP SP3 guest, which was P2V and then run in Workstation 9 on a Windows 8 host. The windows default system sounds such as startup and shutdown, and playing MP3s, result in the audio being very slow, maybe about half the original speed, and stuttery/choppy and all around poor quality. Interestingly, this issue does not occur when playing audio from video files in MPC-HC and audio sounds fine when playing YouTube videos in the guest.
The host is running an onboard Realtek ALC892 8-Channel HD audio chip, but in the guest the sound card shows up as the typical SoundBlaster PCI (es1371).
The VMX file only has the following sound settings currently in it:
sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.filename = "-1"
sound.autodetect = "TRUE"
I've tried changing the VM's hardware level to WS8 and WS7-6. And tried setting up the VMX with the following setting: sound.virtualDev = “hdaudio” (lost audio entirely there). Also from within the host I attempted to update the drivers for the PCI Soundblaster, allowed Windows to search for a new driver and it found something, and installed it - but nothing has helped with the choppy audio.
I've got the latest VMware Tools installed as well, tried uninstalling and reinstalling too.
Is there anything else I can try to get this fixed? Thanks.