The strangest thing happened yesterday and I am completely at a loss as to what is happening and how to resolve it.
Initial issue: My headset randomly stopped being recognized until I performed 2x system restarts. Afterwards I observed normal behavior for awhile but then the weirdness started.
Situation: I am experiencing intermittent audio stuttering. The sound source does not matter as the issue persists between applications and output devices. The stutter is just that, a less than quarter second blip where the sound cuts before resuming.
Symptoms: In trying to investigate the issue I found 2 oddities.
Overall this post is more just to express my dumbfounded disbelief at this peculiar problem and to see if anyone else here has experienced a similar issue and knows how to prevent it.
Initial issue: My headset randomly stopped being recognized until I performed 2x system restarts. Afterwards I observed normal behavior for awhile but then the weirdness started.
Situation: I am experiencing intermittent audio stuttering. The sound source does not matter as the issue persists between applications and output devices. The stutter is just that, a less than quarter second blip where the sound cuts before resuming.
Symptoms: In trying to investigate the issue I found 2 oddities.
- The windows 10 settings window (the big blocky crappy one) is constantly lagging when on the sound settings page. All other pages have no issues. The input and output device selected keeps going blank and then switching back to normal periodically in time with the sound stutter. Attempting to move the window results in a 3-10 second delay before it actually moves.
- In the actually useful 'Sound' manager on the Playback devices tab there is a phantom device called "Headphones High Definition Audio Device" that is repeatedly disappearing and appearing and set to disabled.
Overall this post is more just to express my dumbfounded disbelief at this peculiar problem and to see if anyone else here has experienced a similar issue and knows how to prevent it.
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