Sound randomly stops working & Video playback stutters, tried reinstalling drivers.

[SuperShifty]

This began when I was having issues with my headset and I decided to just uninstall all of my sound drivers, I manually installed my headset drivers and Windows installed the rest on it's own. I then found out it was just the usb port so I plugged my headset into a different one and all was good there...
The problem now is that the sound in my monitor(TV) will randomly just stop working and videos will start to stutter unless I switch to a different playback device, even when I go to do that the sound window takes a long time to open and can be unresponsive.

Uninstalling the driver and restarting my computer fixes all of these problems momentarily but they inevitably come back.

 

[Slashgeek]

Try uninstalling your drivers first and restarting your computer, to make all the problems disappear, then perform the steps here:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/faq/id-2763685/stop-windows-automatically-updating-device-drivers.html

This will prevent Windows from automatically updating your device drivers. The automatic update process might be putting in drivers that have compatibility issues with your hardware.