Question Windows 10 / 11, With 3x PCs Different Properties and peripherals (AUDIO CRACKLING/POPPING NOT FIXED IN OVER A YEAR)

[The Great Buran]

If you can fix this, I am more than willing to gift someone £5 Steam Credit.
I'm hoping Toms hardware wizards can solve this.

Had this issue for well over a year now, Microsoft refuses to do anything about it, on any page, Reddit is stumped. I Havent been able to use a computer for Recreational Activities like games for a LONG time. Cyberpunk Certain engines crackle, Tarkov Supressed guns leave a pop in the audio at the end of firing, Ultimate admiral dreadnoughts the Ships guns crackle. Windows notifications both 11 and 10 crackle and pop and the end and middle. Youtube videos when changing pop. or changing audio levels crackles.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/a...-crackling-on-most-windows-pcs-(built-3x)-sam

Redirecting

https://www.reddit.com/r/WindowsHelp/comments/1h8qutn/comment/m1at1cc/?context=3

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/1govc3q/comment/lysao5m/?context=3

these are some examples, I have more posts within reddit
Systems I have recorded the issue on.
Ryzen 7 5700G(tried a 5600 in this too) Ryzen 5 2600 i5-12600KF
32GB [4x8] 3000Mhz Vengence 16GB [2x8] 3200Mhz Vengence 32GB [2x16] Crucial Pro 6000Mhz
ASUS Prime B450+(tried a B550 new too) Gigabyte A320 MSI MEG UNIFY X Z690
GTX1070ti EVGA FTW2 RTX2060 MSI RTX3060 12GB MSI Ventus
Corsair CX550 Aerocool 600W 80+ Bronze MSI GL650 80+ Gold
Masterbox 3:1 Game master Case Sahara P480
NVME 512GB / Sata SSD 1TB HDD / 512GB Sata SSD 512GB NVME / 2TB Sata SSD

All adequately cooled and appear regardless of temp. or XMP.

1) New PC parts across the board but storage devices. (includes speakers/Headset)

2) Full Repartition/Format drives to fresh

3) Reinstalling Drivers both Audio/Chip/Bios/GPU

4) Windows Power settings [Quick start off, Performance mode set / Minimum processor state 100%]

5) Disabling and unplugging ALL Devices to do with Audio and tried 1 at a time.

6) Tried different monitors (Far fetch)

7) Tried disabling HD audio in bios / and stereo mix in windows

8) Tried EVERY Hz ratio from 48k 16bit / 192k 32bit

9) Disabling any Audio Enhancements

10) XMP Off / And tried all speeds

11) Turned off Bitlocker I think

12) Tried Windows Audio Drivers (Basic) (sonic)

13) Turned off all Discord Properties settings of audio relation

14) Tried without Chrome and used Firefox instead

15) Tried without ethernet cable (Wack)

16) Tried without Dedicated GPU and on board only

17) Tried new Power cables / Different property's electrics.

18) Disabling all devices but Realtek

19) Latency Mon no Errors.

20) USB and PCI Sound card (Creative X)

21) WHOLE NEW INTEL PC (ALL NEW PARTS)

22) WINDOWS 10 AND 11 REINSTALL / PRO AND BASIC

23) Both Realtek Drivers from Site and From Motherboard site. (updated 2024 and mid 2023)

64bits Vista, Windows7, Windows8, Windows8.1, Windows10 Driver only (Executable file)..

R2.83

2024/08/15

258 MB

Realtek HD Universal Driver (include Nahimic Driver) 6.3.9600.2353 2023-03-22 27.13 MB

24) Lot of smaller things over the year to fix this. Increasing page file ECT.

25) Moved houses. (Entails new electric grid)

26) Windows Sonic Spatial off.



IM AT WITS END!
I think windows will become maybe a dead/Dying platform? due to this?

;Note the 5700G PC was mine, the 2600 was my friends. I upgraded to the 12600KF system to see if it was a AMD only issue. Wasted £1000+
I no longer own the 5700G PC and only the i5 System as of RN.

 

[The Great Buran]

Formatting of the systems specs of the 3x Pcs have all converged I do apolagise. and currently on the I5 12600KF and 3060 12GB PC on windows 11.

 

[DaleH]

Formatting of the systems specs of the 3x Pcs have all converged I do apolagise. and currently on the I5 12600KF and 3060 12GB PC on windows 11.

Your problem is resolved? or not.

 

[The Great Buran]

Your problem is resolved? or not.

no?

 

[DaleH]

no?

I doubt that this is a software problem with Windows or most everyone would experience it. Can you imstall Linux to eliminate Windows as the problem. I've never experienced this problem with Windows, for what its worth.

 

[The Great Buran]

I doubt that this is a software problem with Windows or most everyone would experience it. Can you imstall Linux to eliminate Windows as the problem. I've never experienced this problem with Windows, for what its worth.

no idea how? and never done before. and I need my main PC up and running for daily use, I cant be doing that. And 3x Separate PCs and in different locations says its windows. Those who have had this issue have said its not on Linux.

And swapping and using Linux doesn't solve my issue as many things I use daily are not supported by linux
I need a Fix for windows 10 or 11, There will be a option causing this. But i don't know what it is. As said 3x PCs different location in the UK and peripherals same issue.

 

[stonecarver]

Do you by chance have any halogen and or florescent lighting or a lamp with one of those low energy light bulbs that look like a soft serve ice cream / twirly bulbs. Those also have a ballast that introduce all kinds of sound gremlins.

 

[The Great Buran]

Do you by chance have any halogen and or florescent lighting or a lamp with one of those low energy light bulbs that look like a soft serve ice cream / twirly bulbs. Those also have a ballast that introduce all kinds of sound gremlins.

I dont think so. And as siad moved house 3x. Its doubtful. I got standard LED light bulbs.

 

[johnbl]

floating microphone input? (no microphone feeding an amp input)
usb device producing too many log entries?

here is what I would do: disable all microphone input devices
then google how to force a memory dump using a keyboard. Make the registry settings, set the memory dump to be kernel and the next time you have the problem force a memory dump. It will produce a kernel dump and the kernel dump will include the internal log files. you can put the kernel dump on a server, share it for public access and post a link. Send me a DM and I will take a look at the dump for common issues and look at the internal log files.

 

[The Great Buran]

Just to note as much as latancy Mon didnt report this before the past year on either system. Currently my main intel one reported this. While Barely scraping the error report its there, How do i fix this first before moving forward, Just incase this fixes it for this particular machine

I disabled my Wifi Network Adapters. Just 1 of my 2 ethernet ports are active.

Up to date intel drivers. From intel Driver support utility app.


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CONCLUSION
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Your system seems to be having difficulty handling real-time audio and other tasks. You may experience drop outs, clicks or pops due to buffer underruns. One or more DPC routines that belong to a driver running in your system appear to be executing for too long. At least one detected problem appears to be network related. In case you are using a WLAN adapter, try disabling it to get better results. One problem may be related to power management, disable CPU throttling settings in Control Panel and BIOS setup. Check for BIOS updates.
LatencyMon has been analyzing your system for 0:09:42 (h:mm:ss) on all processors.


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SYSTEM INFORMATION
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Computer name: JAKEI5Z690650GL
OS version: Windows 11, 10.0, version 2009, build: 26100 (x64)
Hardware: MS-7D28, Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
BIOS: 1.D0
CPU: GenuineIntel 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12600KF
Logical processors: 16
Processor groups: 1
Processor group size: 16
RAM: 32627 MB total


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CPU SPEED
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Reported CPU speed (WMI): 370 MHz
Reported CPU speed (registry): 3686 MHz

Note: reported execution times may be calculated based on a fixed reported CPU speed. Disable variable speed settings like Intel Speed Step and AMD Cool N Quiet in the BIOS setup for more accurate results.


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MEASURED INTERRUPT TO USER PROCESS LATENCIES
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The interrupt to process latency reflects the measured interval that a usermode process needed to respond to a hardware request from the moment the interrupt service routine started execution. This includes the scheduling and execution of a DPC routine, the signaling of an event and the waking up of a usermode thread from an idle wait state in response to that event.

Highest measured interrupt to process latency (µs): 1148.30
Average measured interrupt to process latency (µs): 9.238215

Highest measured interrupt to DPC latency (µs): 1145.80
Average measured interrupt to DPC latency (µs): 5.901034


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REPORTED ISRs
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Interrupt service routines are routines installed by the OS and device drivers that execute in response to a hardware interrupt signal.

Highest ISR routine execution time (µs): 79.984265
Driver with highest ISR routine execution time: Wdf01000.sys - Kernel Mode Driver Framework Runtime, Microsoft Corporation

Highest reported total ISR routine time (%): 0.001444
Driver with highest ISR total time: Wdf01000.sys - Kernel Mode Driver Framework Runtime, Microsoft Corporation

Total time spent in ISRs (%) 0.001453

ISR count (execution time <250 µs): 166139
ISR count (execution time 250-500 µs): 0
ISR count (execution time 500-1000 µs): 0
ISR count (execution time 1000-2000 µs): 0
ISR count (execution time 2000-4000 µs): 0
ISR count (execution time >=4000 µs): 0


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REPORTED DPCs
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DPC routines are part of the interrupt servicing dispatch mechanism and disable the possibility for a process to utilize the CPU while it is interrupted until the DPC has finished execution.

Highest DPC routine execution time (µs): 1112.852415
Driver with highest DPC routine execution time: ndis.sys - Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS), Microsoft Corporation

Highest reported total DPC routine time (%): 0.040547
Driver with highest DPC total execution time: dxgkrnl.sys - DirectX Graphics Kernel, Microsoft Corporation

Total time spent in DPCs (%) 0.197245

DPC count (execution time <250 µs): 6512939
DPC count (execution time 250-500 µs): 0
DPC count (execution time 500-10000 µs): 950
DPC count (execution time 1000-2000 µs): 1
DPC count (execution time 2000-4000 µs): 0
DPC count (execution time >=4000 µs): 0


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REPORTED HARD PAGEFAULTS
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Hard pagefaults are events that get triggered by making use of virtual memory that is not resident in RAM but backed by a memory mapped file on disk. The process of resolving the hard pagefault requires reading in the memory from disk while the process is interrupted and blocked from execution.

NOTE: some processes were hit by hard pagefaults. If these were programs producing audio, they are likely to interrupt the audio stream resulting in dropouts, clicks and pops. Check the Processes tab to see which programs were hit.

Process with highest pagefault count: dsatray.exe

Total number of hard pagefaults 11143
Hard pagefault count of hardest hit process: 2240
Number of processes hit: 82


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PER CPU DATA
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CPU 0 Interrupt cycle time (s): 38.968498
CPU 0 ISR highest execution time (µs): 79.984265
CPU 0 ISR total execution time (s): 0.090398
CPU 0 ISR count: 118923
CPU 0 DPC highest execution time (µs): 1112.852415
CPU 0 DPC total execution time (s): 14.542861
CPU 0 DPC count: 5042078
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CPU 1 Interrupt cycle time (s): 8.258829
CPU 1 ISR highest execution time (µs): 36.066196
CPU 1 ISR total execution time (s): 0.010163
CPU 1 ISR count: 10271
CPU 1 DPC highest execution time (µs): 885.975583
CPU 1 DPC total execution time (s): 0.979621
CPU 1 DPC count: 111501
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CPU 2 Interrupt cycle time (s): 8.243515
CPU 2 ISR highest execution time (µs): 33.957135
CPU 2 ISR total execution time (s): 0.030022
CPU 2 ISR count: 31772
CPU 2 DPC highest execution time (µs): 480.078676
CPU 2 DPC total execution time (s): 0.938788
CPU 2 DPC count: 456829
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CPU 3 Interrupt cycle time (s): 5.391638
CPU 3 ISR highest execution time (µs): 11.880087
CPU 3 ISR total execution time (s): 0.003792
CPU 3 ISR count: 4033
CPU 3 DPC highest execution time (µs): 209.863266
CPU 3 DPC total execution time (s): 0.174608
CPU 3 DPC count: 51073
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CPU 4 Interrupt cycle time (s): 5.213977
CPU 4 ISR highest execution time (µs): 4.182311
CPU 4 ISR total execution time (s): 0.000454
CPU 4 ISR count: 483
CPU 4 DPC highest execution time (µs): 137.739012
CPU 4 DPC total execution time (s): 0.238960
CPU 4 DPC count: 154449
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CPU 5 Interrupt cycle time (s): 4.920651
CPU 5 ISR highest execution time (µs): 4.351058
CPU 5 ISR total execution time (s): 0.000317
CPU 5 ISR count: 408
CPU 5 DPC highest execution time (µs): 85.906131
CPU 5 DPC total execution time (s): 0.063688
CPU 5 DPC count: 25382
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CPU 6 Interrupt cycle time (s): 6.193097
CPU 6 ISR highest execution time (µs): 3.874118
CPU 6 ISR total execution time (s): 0.000146
CPU 6 ISR count: 178
CPU 6 DPC highest execution time (µs): 120.548562
CPU 6 DPC total execution time (s): 0.231838
CPU 6 DPC count: 131567
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CPU 7 Interrupt cycle time (s): 4.910803
CPU 7 ISR highest execution time (µs): 3.759088
CPU 7 ISR total execution time (s): 0.000048
CPU 7 ISR count: 46
CPU 7 DPC highest execution time (µs): 478.144330
CPU 7 DPC total execution time (s): 0.077072
CPU 7 DPC count: 28764
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CPU 8 Interrupt cycle time (s): 6.337202
CPU 8 ISR highest execution time (µs): 1.945741
CPU 8 ISR total execution time (s): 0.000023
CPU 8 ISR count: 25
CPU 8 DPC highest execution time (µs): 478.381986
CPU 8 DPC total execution time (s): 0.208745
CPU 8 DPC count: 113192
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CPU 9 Interrupt cycle time (s): 4.970633
CPU 9 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0
CPU 9 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0
CPU 9 ISR count: 0
CPU 9 DPC highest execution time (µs): 478.069995
CPU 9 DPC total execution time (s): 0.054323
CPU 9 DPC count: 22436
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CPU 10 Interrupt cycle time (s): 6.092935
CPU 10 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0
CPU 10 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0
CPU 10 ISR count: 0
CPU 10 DPC highest execution time (µs): 477.855128
CPU 10 DPC total execution time (s): 0.199597
CPU 10 DPC count: 120495
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CPU 11 Interrupt cycle time (s): 4.867204
CPU 11 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0
CPU 11 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0
CPU 11 ISR count: 0
CPU 11 DPC highest execution time (µs): 477.139989
CPU 11 DPC total execution time (s): 0.050759
CPU 11 DPC count: 22586
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CPU 12 Interrupt cycle time (s): 6.917503
CPU 12 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0
CPU 12 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0
CPU 12 ISR count: 0
CPU 12 DPC highest execution time (µs): 93.092784
CPU 12 DPC total execution time (s): 0.170785
CPU 12 DPC count: 66733
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CPU 13 Interrupt cycle time (s): 6.506482
CPU 13 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0
CPU 13 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0
CPU 13 ISR count: 0
CPU 13 DPC highest execution time (µs): 477.241454
CPU 13 DPC total execution time (s): 0.154353
CPU 13 DPC count: 63796
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CPU 14 Interrupt cycle time (s): 6.462909
CPU 14 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0
CPU 14 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0
CPU 14 ISR count: 0
CPU 14 DPC highest execution time (µs): 475.886055
CPU 14 DPC total execution time (s): 0.157664
CPU 14 DPC count: 56660
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CPU 15 Interrupt cycle time (s): 6.281125
CPU 15 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0
CPU 15 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0
CPU 15 ISR count: 0
CPU 15 DPC highest execution time (µs): 476.663049
CPU 15 DPC total execution time (s): 0.13360
CPU 15 DPC count: 46349
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