Audio & GPU Drivers

Hello, I’ve been having a problem with the wired audio on my computer for about 5 months now, but it’s steadily gotten worse, to the point that the audio is unusable. Under load and occasionally on startup, my headphones pop and in the audio devices menu the connected headphones connect and...

I've been having audio issues like popping/crackling when pausing, or listening to certain audio for a while now. this PC is less than a year old and has been having problems with my audio for a while now. used latencymon and got these results also here is everything I tried that I can...

I know the problem, when my laptop is connected to tv it uses my intel graphics audio driver(igpu) instead of my Nvidia graphics driver (my main gpu) but it doesn't have a audio port on my laptop, now how do I fix this or force every games to use the intel's audio driver when gaming in my tv...

Hey everyone, I just put together a new PC, and when I start up a game (tried BG3 and Helldivers 2) the audio becomes choppy and unbearable, every other syllable is cut off, but if I play music through my browser (youtube music) it sounds perfectly fine. Initially the games were visually...

Audio crackles briefly every few seconds in music or in game, frequency seems to vary a bit depending on the output and audio settings. Windows system sounds also crackle, and more so than other audio sources, basically continuously while they play. The system on which the issue occurs...

Hey there, honestly this is a tough one and I can't figure out what's wrong (without having to completely reinstall everything). So basically I can't get sound from any app EXCEPT discord (apps like Firefox, games, etc). But everything was before I updated Windows. Yes, I do have sound coming...

really need help fixing my audio on my laptop as i work as a dj and its really effecting my job and ive lost work form it and money, please help anyone, i can provide pictures etc. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gtkJFLCngkbBYBfEwiHlss4yL1xt99u9/view?usp=share_link...

So I've never had a problem with front ports, either USB or audio jacks. Recently I was deleting files with spacesniffer and was trying to delete an apple backup, little did I know is that I didn't read close enough and deleted appdata folder. After that I had a lot of settings issues, like...

So my mother gifted me a pc (although not that great but it will do for the stuff i do daily) and i cant seem to get the front audio port's to work. Its motherboard is an unknown brand so i cant look up the manufacturer's driver website. tried reinstalling the RT driver but i still cant seem to...

I recently built a new pc and I noticed that when I plug my speakers into my pc, nothing happens (computer won’t recognize that I plugged them in, etc.) and sound won’t come from the speakers although they work fine when plugged into the back of my monitor. I checked my BIOS and everything audio...

So, this weird issue has been randomly occurring for a while: for a split second, the screen goes black and the audio stops, but the LED light on the monitor indicates that is still receiving a signal. Then everything returns back to normal. This happens randomly, even if I am not gaming. Here...

So, recently when playing the new Spider-Man PC port, the game while running at 144 FPS or above 60 FPS cuts out audio for the game and the pc but the second I tab back to a browser source audio is normal. I've already beaten the main game and this didn't happen before, now in the DLC and it's...

There is some bug or bad driver that will start pulling my audio slider for my speakers down to 0 with seemingly no trigger. I have uninstalled the Realtek device in device manager and restarted to let windows reinstall the drivers. I have unplugged both my keyboard and mouse while the problem...

Hello, I have a problem my audio card, my headphones audio quality drops when I'm doing intense tasks (gaming, screen recording, etc.). They start outputting in lower volume, stereo/mono mode instead of 5.1 that my headphones support. Basically audio sounds like its coming from low quality...

Hi I'm having this issue where the audio through my Scarlett Solo audio interface keeps crackling especially when on web browser. It also causes my keyboard to constantly disconnect which makes it really difficult to type. I have tried unplugging and change the usb port it is plugged into. It...

So, my computer recently has been experiencing a problem where it will randomly crash whenever I play sounds of any kind on my machine. After turning it back on, it then will proceed to have no realtek audio drivers show up inside device manager and when I try to install them using install...

I have a usb to 4-pole headphone interface and these headphones. https://www.amazon.com/DuKabel-ProSeries-Mic-Supported-Headphone-External/dp/B07RS11M1T https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MA1MJ6H The headphones and mic works on my PC. The '-' '+' and 'o' buttons do things when it's connected to my...

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Hello, So the story goes like this: I was wondering why my PC was putting out too much heat lately and noticed that my GPU was really hot. So after changing some settings nothing was working. So I decided to reinstall the drivers. And to make sure it was a clean install I used DDU. While the...

I've been having these issues for a couple of days now, I have not found help yet. I usually play Valorant. Recently, my game has been freezing up randomly (only for a second or two) and the audio cuts out. It happens in intervals, a couple of freezes then it's fine. However, after playing for a...

I currently have a pc with the erica 6 motherboard, i think the ports on the back have surround sound but is there a way to give the front jacks surround sound? the front jack is a jumbo jack (audio+mic), or should I just use an external sound card with usb and a splitter? (there is no...

Hello, recently my computer crashed and my audio stopped working altogether. The graphics card also was running very poorly, which i managed to fix after updating the drivers (it kept saying there was an error loading drivers). Although, i havent been able to hear anything since. There also is a...

For some reason my Realtek sound was disabled in my Device manager and said that it was unplugged. I had this problem before so I tried some solutions and ended up uninstalling and trying to reinstall my sound drivers. I got my drivers from...

While I was playing a game earlier, I noticed a case fan cable was stuck slightly into a fan on my gpu, preventing it from spinning. I turned off my pc, removed the graphics card, ensured the cable would no longer interfere, and reinstalled the graphics card. Upon booting my pc, I no longer have...

Hey guys, about a week ago I suddenly lost all of my audio capabilities on my Windows 10 machine. So far i failed in restoring any of them and to be honest im out of ides. I tried everything I could think of and looked at many forum threads. Everything didnt help. What I tried (and remember)...

Restarted my computer on the 24th of February 2022. Since then my realtek has disappeared from my computer and I have followed every piece of advice to get it back onto my computer (uninstalling and reinstalling etc) HOWEVER; Uninstalling + reinstalling did not work. Clean installation of...

Right now i only have 3 settings which include: Headphone Virtualization, Loudness Equalization, and Bass Booster, Do i have to download some plugins or is it the version of my audio driver?

I have a desktop Windows PC and have issue with the sound - for some reason it stopped outputting sound. The case has two analog 3.5 jack audio outputs, one in the front, the other in the back. In the past I could hear sound from both, but now there isn't sound coming from any of them. I try...

I have recently freshly reinstalled my Windows 10 and now it won't detect my headphones connected to the audio jack. When I plug the same headphones in to usb-c port with adapter it gets detected no problem. I didn't mess around with the hardware at all, I tried installing all realtek and Intel...

Hey! I recently built my new PC, and since day 1 I've been having strange audio distortion issues. It seems to only happen when I'm in a discord voice channel. If I launch a game while in a discord voice channel, my entire system audio is heavily distorted. Additionally, it only affects my usb...

The microphone on my Zenbook UX330UA has recently stopped working. The speakers are OK, but audio is not being detected by the mic. I've tried uninstalling and re-installing the Realtek audio driver from Device Manager, and also tried downloading and installing the latest version of the audio...

Yesterday I was playing the new Forza, until it crashed, and a few second later my laptop (HP Omen 15) froze. Restarted it and there were no audio devices. I restarted windows and reinstalled my audio drivers (realtek) yet it still doesn't work. Now it recognizes my speakers/headphones and my...

Hi! I installed windows 11 about a month i didn't experience anything wrong till' now, but now i have a problem, on my bluetooth headphones (JBL Tune 500) and on my surround sistem (Sony HT-S20R) [but more frequently on the headphones], i experience audio crackling, i tried everything the video...

Having a problem with my audio drivers. I'm very close to solving it, but it's been quite the beast. Windows 11, ASRock Z490 Phantom Gaming 4 motherboard, Realtek drivers. Basically, I hear a pop whenever an audio channel opens or closes, my Windows Search is broken, and I have no Realtek HD...

I have had this problem for a while now. I tried to uninstall and reinstall the drivers but I check device manager and the driver isnt there. I cant even find it when searching for hidden. I get my driver from the ASUS website because my motherboard is the b360-f. When using the asus setup, I...

I recently ran a routine driver update from a 3rd party program from my computer called Driver Booster. I have had problems with audio drivers using this program on other computers but never my own PC. The only audio driver that was Affected was "AMD High Definition Audio Device" Which from my...

We had a very short power surge/outage -- maybe 1 second -- and now my motherboard's rear audio jacks (headphone line in and microphone) don't seem to work. I moved to the front audio jacks, and they do work... Any idea? System info is as follows: OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Pro System...

Hi everyone, i hope you could help me i am so confused with what's happening when i talk on discord or in game with people they can hear my computer (very quietly) the thing is that stereo mix is disabled and i dont have any softwares installed that might do that i have tried unplugging my...

Hello all, I'm experiencing some extreme audio issues and I'm not sure what to do. Every time I launch a game and play for longer than 5-10 minutes, my game lags briefly then suddenly has extreme audio distortion and lag. It sounds like my speakers are blown out. When I close the game, other...

Hello! For the past 2-3 years now, I keep my volume set to 20ish on my PC, maxing out at 100. I'll turn it up to around 30 for quieter stuff but past that and it get too loud. To prevent any misunderstanding, I have no hearing problems. I tried fixing it in the past but just couldn't figure it...