Windows 10: Audio Stutter Win10 64bit 20H2

Hey, I thought I would ask here if anyone knows how to mitigate or even get rid of the audio stuttering issues on the latest live release 20H2.

When I'm playing any kind of sound in audio players, browsers etc, If I try to move the cursor over anything, be it a link in the browser, a folder or even buttons in the used player, I have some serious audio micro lags. The only scenario when I have normal audio is when I play any games, watch movies in full screen or simply don't move the mouse (which kills the idea of multitasking heh ...). I tried everything I could possibly do:

- disabled throtthling,
- disabled all energy saving options and set the power plan to max efficiency,
- set the highest priorities to the player/browser processes,
- reinstalled all drivers,
- tried every samplerate from 44100 to 192Hz, also tried various buffer sizes.

And finally, just to be sure, I replaced the USB cable to the audio interface. In the worse case scenario, I will need to go back to the previous Win10 version.

PS. I checked with LatencyMon - there are no problems with latency (unless I start some heavy video processing, but imo that's normal)

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Audio driver conflict causing stuttering?

Hi Techhelper89,

Unfortunately, I did the instructions as mentioned in the thread and the stuttering persists. I used the link provided: and the steps requested

http://www.tweaking.com/files/setups/tweaking.com_windows_repair_aio_setup.exe

I also tried reinstalling the Realtek Audio drivers as suggested by the thread to no avail.

I've also added some links of how the stuttering looks and sounds like to the main post of this thread. I hope it helps identify the issue.

One more thing I noticed after the above steps is that I can boot with Nvidia HD Audio drivers disabled but the stuttering persist. Enabling then disabling "cures" the stuttering for a while. Although, when this is happening while the Nvidia Audio drivers are
disabled (as there is an enable option) the icon doesn't look like one that is normally disabled (with a small circular arrow down icon).

Cheers,

Ben

 

Win10 Audio and video stutter

Hi,

I have tried everything and have not found a solution. About a week ago I played around with the Windows audio enhancements while listening to youtube videos - no issues from that. Then, with my HDD running very slowly (has been for a while), I installed
Acronis True Image and cloned my HDD to an SSD and another HDD. Afterwards, all three now have a distinct audio stutter.

No other hardware changes have been made. I have googled every guide I can find. I have uninstalled & reinstalled every driver that I can think of. I have uninstalled Acronis. I have played with the Windows power settings. I have tried AHCI in the BIOS (just
blue screens). I have uninstalled Windows updates, and nothing makes any difference. It affects youtube videos, as well as local music and video files on my HDD/SSD.

Tried uninstalling Acronis and it is no better. I test using a youtube stutter/judder test (which is a spinning symbol) and the audio stutters (from a separate youtube clip) line up with the video stutter. I have also run youtube audio clips, local movie
& audio files etc, and they all stutter.

Has anyone had an issue like this and resolved it? Reinstalling Win10 would be a pain. I upgraded from Win7 and I don't think that I bought an install disk at the time.

Evan

 

Discoveries on Stuttering Audio. What next?

Which was suggested a couple of days ago in the original thread on this topic.

Stuttering audio, need clarification of recent posts