Just last week, I got a Ryzen 3600 with an "AsRock Fatal1ty x470 Gaming K4" motherboard.
I was in the middle of playing through Ion Fury, but I noticed after making the hardware switch I started having weird audio stuttering - not very frequent, but once every 30 seconds to once every few minutes, the audio would just completely cut out for a moment.
This also happened when I was doing a little stress testing with OCCT and trying to play some music at the same time (using Foobar2000 if relevant). However, I figured this might have been normal since who knows what OCCT was doing to hold up the system (although I had some doubts since the rest of the system WAS fluid and responsive)
Today I wanted to try out an old sound card I had lying around, but noticed it had no SPDIF out and it got me thinking:
I had been using SPDIF output to send the audio to an amplifier... What if I just used the regular speaker jack output instead to connect to the amplifier?
Well, it seems ever since doing that, the audio issues are gone!
So right now, I'm at a point where I think there is some issue with the SPDIF output, but I have no idea what exactly I could do to fix it if I wanted to keep using it.
Additonal notes: I had been using the latest Realtek drivers from AsRock's website (v8619) but I switched back to some generic Realtek R280 drivers since I had issues with the front panel microphone volume being waaay too low. The audio SPDIF stutter manifested with both drivers.
I was in the middle of playing through Ion Fury, but I noticed after making the hardware switch I started having weird audio stuttering - not very frequent, but once every 30 seconds to once every few minutes, the audio would just completely cut out for a moment.
This also happened when I was doing a little stress testing with OCCT and trying to play some music at the same time (using Foobar2000 if relevant). However, I figured this might have been normal since who knows what OCCT was doing to hold up the system (although I had some doubts since the rest of the system WAS fluid and responsive)
Today I wanted to try out an old sound card I had lying around, but noticed it had no SPDIF out and it got me thinking:
I had been using SPDIF output to send the audio to an amplifier... What if I just used the regular speaker jack output instead to connect to the amplifier?
Well, it seems ever since doing that, the audio issues are gone!
So right now, I'm at a point where I think there is some issue with the SPDIF output, but I have no idea what exactly I could do to fix it if I wanted to keep using it.
Additonal notes: I had been using the latest Realtek drivers from AsRock's website (v8619) but I switched back to some generic Realtek R280 drivers since I had issues with the front panel microphone volume being waaay too low. The audio SPDIF stutter manifested with both drivers.
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