Audio Lag / Stutter / Spikes when Playing Video / Recording Games

[VideoklipBG]

Hello guys!

This is very important thing for me. I want to ask you for solution of the problem (Or advice).

So, the problem is - When I play video (On YouTube) and / or listen music, Recording Video Games for my YouTube Channel (Like Minecraft, CS:GO, Simulator Games, Ect.) my PC Audio (Sound coming from PC or input to PC) start Lagging / Stuttering / Cracking Time To Time.

For Example: I record Minecraft Gameplay, render video and upload it to my YouTube Channel. And after watching it (Even BEFORE Editting, The "Raw" Recorded Video!!!) - The Sound time to time (Every 1 or 2 Minutes) is cracking or stops for a half Second... You know what I mean.

Or I play a Video Game (Like Minecraft, CS:GO, Ect. Like I said before) WITHOUT Recording / Streaming / Downloading Anything / Playing Video / Music - The Audio Sounds like this.

HERE IS EXAMPLE VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzyYGARvWe4
Go to these seconds to hear the "lag": 0:17 or 1:39 or 5:01 or 16:02 ...

*In my Channel I have many videos from a week - two WITH this "Stuttering" / Problem!*


So this is the problem at all, I can not describe it in more detail.
*And sorry for my bad English, I am from Bulgaria, my Channel is Bulgarian too!

Thank You so Much in Advance! Very much appreciated your help / advice!
All the best to you! <3

 

[James Mason]

What's your computer hardware/specs? (be specific)
Do you have a 2nd HDD dedicated for the recordings to go to?

I had a laptop that got audio stutters because of a bad graphics driver update, and I had to completely remove the driver and install the one off the manufacturer's website.

You can give the following a try, it may fix the issue if it's a graphics driver messing up:

If you have graphics or driver issues, one of the most common fixes is a clean uninstall and removal of your graphics drivers.

To uninstall your drivers, first download and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and follow it's recommendations of booting into safe mode and ect.
(This is a direct download link so you don't grab the wrong version)
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html

You'll download a compressed file called "[Guru3D.com]-DDU.zip"
Right click and choose extract.
Go into the folder and run the DDU v##.##.exe
This will extract more files to this folder.
Run Display Driver Uninstaller.exe
Choose Yes when it asks you to boot into SafeMode.
After you've rebooted into safe mode.
When DDU comes up, if it hasn't selected your GPU manufacturer (Nvidia/AMD/Intel) then choose it from the drop down list
Press the Clean and Restart option
If a window comes up asking to disable the Windows automatic installation of display drivers click yes.

After (or before removing the old drivers, just put the new ones on the desktop or somewhere handy) rebooting back into Windows, manually download the latest drivers from Nvidia or AMD, don't use auto detect, choose you GPU model and OS from the drop down lists.
Nvidia: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
AMD: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
Intel: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/detect.html

 

[VideoklipBG]

These are my PC Specs:

● Case: Cooler Master K-350
● Motherboard: Gigabyte GA Z170 - HD3
● PSU: Seasonic X-Series, 1050W, 80 Plus Gold
● CPU: Intel Core i7 6700K, 4-Core, Up to 4.00 GHz
● GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming, 6GB
● RAM: 16GB (2x 8GB) Adata XPG, DDR4, 2666 MHz
● CPU Cooler: CoolerMaster Seidon 120v
● SSD: Adata SX930 XPG - 120 GB, 6GB/s
● HDD 1: Seagate SV35 - 2 TB, 7200rpm
● HDD 2: Toshiba P300 - 1 TB, 7200rpm

The GPU is not the problem. I tried to reinstall the drivers, run GPU Stress Test for longer, when browsing on internet, watching 8k Video (Like Ghost Towns 8k) at once. The PSU is not the problem too.

I use external USB Sound Card, which is good, working properly, the problem is not here, I think. I tried without it, with different USB Ports, witihout USB Hubs / Front USB Ports.

The 'All Audio' in the PC is not working prolerly... When watching videos on YouTube, browsing, ect. The problem is still there. The sound time to time stops for a half second and returns back.

All motherboard drivers are original, all is up to date. All chipset / audio drivers are up to date too. All is correct, for my specs, model, brand.

I am ultra confused what's happening here too. The problem is very weird mysterious...

(Like I say in the 1st post - See the video in these seconds. All of my recend videos have the same problem. From around 1 or little more than 1 week ago.)

And sorry again for my bad English.

 

[James Mason]

Uhh, I would take out the external sound card, and try reinstalling the audio drivers for your motherboard.

Is your CPU Overclocked? try undoing that and see if it improves.

I know you tried reinstalling the drivers, but the problem is old bad driver data may be the problem, hence why I wanted you to use the program i linked, it cleans out the old data.

 

[VideoklipBG]

My CPU Is not overclocked, I don't know the motherboard drivers to caouse this problem. Only the audio drivers. But I will try everything again, reinstalling audio drivers, ect. The external sound card - I will try without it too, but the problem isn't there. It's working fine on other PCs and devices. But.. Why the problem cause 'All Audio' to sound laggy time to time and / or when playing music / watching videos / recording / streaming... All these things caouse this 'Stutter / Lag' somehow differently. In the recorded videos - it's time to time - around 2 or 3 minutes. When Streaming the problem is barely noticeable, but it's there. In watching stuff / browsing in internet it's differently again.. Very weird, but true.