Ah, sorry to hear, exactly the same here. Hope to find you all well soon. Thanks for taking the time to respond, though.
Meanwhile, it looks I got the winner (at least for me on Win7 x64)!
This is what I did:
- I’m running kernel latest but I didn’t update it to x.17.x due to issues you are already aware of, so I’m on 16.
- As already wrote, set all qubes to
clocksource=tsc(that finding of yours was exceptional!) - I’ve upgraded, not updated to xen-hvm-stubdom-linux-1.2.4-1.fc32.x86_64 (
sudo qubes-dom0-update --enablerepo=qubes-dom0-current-testing --action=upgrade xen-hvm-stubdom-linux, for others less in the know) - updated sys-usb template to testing and restarted sys-usb (not of an importance in this my specific case, because I’m deplying sys-audio, but because of this case of mine)
- I’ve decreased vCPUs to 1 (could try to half as well) for the win qube
- set audio-model ac97 for the qube
- started qube, downloaded and installed drivers from here
- even without restarting anything - I got beautiful sound from Windows, finally!
Just, please, don’t ask why I did what I did. Basically searched a lot on stuttering in Windows guest virtual machines. The next step should be to try to switch from pulseaudio to alsa (if that is even possible and if makes sense anyway), but thankfully, it finished here.
Hopefully, some of these would help to at least some of you.
Wait, I have to play that song once again in a win qube…