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

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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.