For older titles (pre‑2000) that lack clean audio stems, the engine occasionally mis‑identifies background music as speech, causing a slight drift. In those cases the manual timeline can be used to nudge the subtitles into place.
★★★★½ (4.5/5)
Across and 3 games tested on a mid‑range setup (AMD Ryzen 5 5600X + 16 GB RAM + Nvidia RTX 3060), the audio remained artifact‑free , and the dynamic range was preserved even after the audio was routed through the Exhuma daemon. The only perceptible difference came from compressed packs (AAC‑LC) where the high‑frequency sparkle of orchestral instruments was mildly attenuated—a trade‑off for reduced storage. 5.3 Latency & Sync Thanks to the GPU‑accelerated decoding path, the engine adds ≤ 10 ms of buffering, which is well within the tolerance for most video playback scenarios. The built‑in Audio Delay Slider allows fine‑tuning if you notice drift (e.g., on older TVs that introduce extra video processing delay). In practice, the default sync was perfect on 98 % of the content I tested.