audio crackling/popping

Forum discussion tagged with audio crackling/popping.
  1. MrSuperhate

    Question Difficult to diagnose audio crackling and hardware acceleration issues ?

    System: 5600G, 6800 XT, 4 x 8GB 3600 MHz CL16 RAM, B550M DS3H AC motherboard, GD-F HPJ 750W PSU, SK hynix Gold P31 boot drive To be clear, audio crackling happens independent of whether hardware acceleration is enabled. The facts: 1. I get persistent audio crackling when the audio bitrate...
  2. O

    Question Cursed PC, can't seem to diagnose problem.

    Hey I'm new here and this is cross posted to Linus forums, not sure if I needed to disclose that or not lol but I'm just trying to find some fresh faces/ideas. This post is going to be long, I want to include as much information as I can. But a quick TLDR is my PC has been acting INCREDIBLY...
  3. S

    Question Audio crackling and dropouts, system slowdown while downloading, high DPC latency.

    I don't know if you're allowed to post an issue that is solved but I spent many hours hunting this one down and Tom's Hardware always seems to come up in Google results, so this might help somebody some day. I was suffering from very pronounced audio crackling/dropouts and a general slowdown of...
  4. M

    Question nvlddmkm.sys causing audio cracks, probably fps drops and screen flickering

    Hello, I have weird problem with my computer. It started somewhere around begining of 2021 out of no where. The problem was audio cracking, which started whenever I move my mouse, or press anything on keyboard, when playing audio/games. I thought that's problem with my Xonar DX. Because I wanted...
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    Question constant need to restart windows explorer-start menu issue, strange "blip" on the bottom half of screen, audio crackling

    a few things: the start menu fails every so often, requiring me to restart windows explorer in order for it to work again my screensaver settings window often displays "an error is preventing this slideshow from playing" ONLY IN THE SETTINGS WINDOW. the actual screensaver seems to work fine...
  6. M

    [SOLVED] STRIX B450-F audio "crackling" issue

    Yo! So I have a bit of a problem, I hear weird "crackling" noises from my headphones when im doing anything in windows. The issue started happening after I changed my from an Asrock motherboard to a Strix b450-f. Here is a list of things i have tried: I tried reseating the front audio...
  7. Z

    Question High DPC latency and Turbo Boost

    Hello. I experience heavy audio dropouts and crackles when Turbo Boost is on. What I've noticed: -It doesn't happen in safe mode. -When I deactivate GPUs while playing audio, crackles disappear for a while. -It works fine during first minutes after system boot. My specs: Laptop: Lenovo Legion...
  8. J

    Question Stuck at 5 FPS HELP! GTX 1070 ti

    Help! System: CPU: Intel i5-8400 2.8 Ghz RAM: Kingston 8gb DDR4 3000mhz GPU MSI Geforce GTX 1070 ti PSU: EVGA B3 550W Any game I run I am stuck at 5 FPS. I uninstalled my drivers from Nvidia and ended uprunning games fine, but every time i reboot my PC it starts the same problem where I am...