Windows 10: Audio crackles & stutters, goes out of sync with any video, also makes PC lag.

Audio crackles & stutters, goes out of sync with any video, also makes PC lag. sometimes on start up everything is fine till i start up a video or spotify or netflix. Its been doing this for a few days, idk if it was the latest windows update or what.


Specs:
Alienware Alpha i7, geforce, uses nvidia soundcard.


Things ive tried:

reinstalling sound drivers

looking for updates

eliminating cache


nothing seems to help

ultimitaly i,ll reinstall windows if i cant find a fix but that would be very time consuming as i have plenty games and programs installed.

:)

 

Audio Crackling/Video Lag

Hi,

I have had terrible audio crackling, and cutting out the last two days, as well as video lag whenever the sound cuts out.

I believe the problem is ndsi.sys and wdf01000.sys causing massive DPC latency.

All help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

audio and video out of sync and stutters

audio and video out of sync and stutters, most noticeable on youtube

 

Audio Pop/Stutter/Crackle When Stopping Audio

I've disabled audio enhancements and tried changing audio formats, but the problem persists.

I spent two days looking for a solution and I tried literally everything.

The best I can do is explain the problem a bit further.

Basically when audio is played on the PC there's a pop right at the beginning. Playing/pausing a video whether it's a local file or a Youtube video does the same thing (happens randomly). I made sure it's not a hardware problem by trying my Schiit stack on both my laptop and PC. After that I tried both the onboard audio of my laptop and PC. They both had the same problem. I even reinstalled windows just in case, but that didn't help. This started 3 days ago and I'm really confused and trying to figure out what is causing this. You can check out what I wrote in the thread at the beginning of the list of things I tried.


Here's a pic of what you asked, and thanks again for replying!