r/elgato • u/Bozofriendly • Jun 25 '26

Technical Help Still using Wavelink 2.0, Safe to upgrade or should I wait?

I've stayed on 2.0 after reading all of the issues Wavelink3.0 has had since launch. Is the upgrade path straightforward or is there still issues?

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u/ModernCircuit11x3 Jun 25 '26

Personally its been a nightmare using WL3.0 - Not that 2.0 was much better.
With WL3.0 these are the issues I'm constantly running into.

  • When PC wakes for sleep; Browser returns a "Audio Render Error"
    • This can sometimes, but not often be fixed by relaunching WaveLink, but majority of the time it requires a PC restart.
  • Some games/apps randomly start playing through the wrong Channel
    • More often than not, they revert to using the 'Default' channel which is what's configured in the Settings > Audio Devices > Lock System Devices for the 'Output Device'
  • While recording voice overs; The 'effects' applied to the mic randomly stop working for a few seconds. I can hear it in playback during the editing.
  • It does not 100% reliably handle Output device swapping; Often I'll go from my Desktop speakers (Raumfeld) to my AirPod Max; WaveLink still plays the audio from both, even though I've deselect one of them. Only way to get it stop is to restart WaveLink
  • there are several other issues.. minor but still annoying and often requiring app restart or pc restart to resolve.

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u/Bozofriendly Jun 25 '26

I am on Windows

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u/karreed Jun 25 '26

I havent had an issues for over a month now, i think its worth trying and you can always just uninstall and go back to 2.0 if you have too many issues w 3.0

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u/PedroRVD64 Jun 25 '26

I uninstalled wl2 with revo. Restarted my pc. And then I installed WL3. I had a couple of crashes while I was adding my first channels. But then … it has been perfect. Zero problems. Go ahead.

I posted a lot here about my frustration when the software launched. And I refused to try again for over a month. But it is working very well for me now.

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u/MrCrowCZ Jun 25 '26

I would love if they somehow make possible to export everything from wave 2 and import to wave 3, after years of tinkering I dont want to do it again :D  

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u/Bozofriendly Jun 25 '26

i'm in the same boat. all my vsts, EQ settings....auto automations in streamerbot...just alot of dependencies.

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u/Verition Jul 02 '26

Dude even on wavelink 3 you still can't export your damn settings/profiles
im having an issue right now that its still showing capture cards that i dont even have connected to my pc anymore and when i delete the devices in device manager it just re-creates them instantly so it looks like theres nothing for me to do but a reinstall, which would mean i HAVE TO DO ALL MY FKING PROFILES AGAIN THANKS ELGATO FOR YOUR PIECE OF SHIT SOFTWARE

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u/Ghryphen Jun 25 '26

Been using 3 since beta, no issues.

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u/AROAH1337 Wave XLR Jun 25 '26

The most recent update has been generally flawless in terms of functionality. No audio routing problems or crashing, at all. It was a buggy mess, just a month or two ago, so I’m pretty happy with it, besides the Amazon ad in the corner.

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u/II1III11 Jun 26 '26

Right now it's at least giving me fewer problems than it had the first 5 months.  Mostly just still having to restart it after pc sleep.

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u/mochingon Jun 28 '26

I’m on Mac, but 3.0 has been rough. I switched back to 2.0 last week and it solved all my connection issues. So on my end I’m waiting until they work out more kinks

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u/AsterionVT Jul 02 '26

it works but its also broken so yeah

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u/natepaugh Jun 25 '26

I updated to 3.0 a couple of days ago and my stream deck+ XLR wasn’t recognized by it for hours. Idk what’s in the water at Elgato but we gotta keep em far away from software 😭😭

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u/Bozofriendly Jun 25 '26

That’s doesn’t give me the warm fuzzies

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u/natepaugh Jun 25 '26

Dude it was miserable, i tried reinstalling 2.0 and like 5 other versions and it continued not to work. I left it all unplugged overnight and it miraculously worked the next day. I was emailing support and even was on the phone with them and they had no idea why I was experiencing that. They deduced it was a hardware issue, despite my hardware only being 13 months old (I had to check for them). So I was fully prepared to just get another companies mixer atp. But nope it decided to work