Windows 10: High GPU usage causing audio to cuts off

First sorry if I post in the wrong section, since it's either graphic card or sound card.

The problem as title says, whenever GPU usage hits high usage (90-100%) when playing games it will cut off the audio. I took some video of it from witcher 3 gameplay with vsync off => YouTube

As for normal use like browsing the net, watching youtube, watching movie, etc works just fine.

Things that I observe that any apps that cause high gpu usage will cause the same things or causing realtek plug/unplugged notification went crazy, like running userbenchmark (only at gpu test), 3dmark, unigine, etc.

Any idea where might be the cause? Just for reference I never had a problem with the system circa 2017-2018, most of issue appear in mid 2019 circa windows 10 build 1809/1903 update.

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High GPU usage causing audio to cuts off

First sorry if I post in the wrong section, since it's either graphic card or sound card.

The problem as title says, whenever GPU usage hits high usage (90-100%) when playing games it will cut off the audio. I took some video of it from witcher 3 gameplay with vsync off =>

As for normal use like browsing the net, watching youtube, watching movie, etc works just fine.

Things that I observe that any apps that cause high gpu usage will cause the same things or causing realtek plug/unplugged notification went crazy, like running userbenchmark (only at gpu test), 3dmark, unigine, etc.

Any idea where might be the cause? Just for reference I never had a problem with the system circa 2017-2018, most of issue appear in mid 2019 circa windows 10 build 1809/1903 update.

 

Windows 10 stock programs causing high GPU usage (also the lockscreen)

Hello,

I've recently been wondering why my GPU temps have been so high on idle. I did some investigating and found that all stock programs on windows 10 (even if they aren't open, but running in the background) cause over 50% GPU usage. The problem is, some of these
programs open on their own (Calculator, Mail, & Settings). As soon as I force quit all of these programs, my GPU usage drops back down to ~20%. Locking my PC also causes the same issue, so if I lock my PC my temps get high again.

Note: Cortana is the one program that does not effect it.

I've done multiple malware/ virus scans using different programs and nothing has been caught.

My simplified specs:

2x GTX 780's (SLI) (Newest drivers)

i7-3770

16GB Ram

Win. 10 (All updated)

Screenshot Proof (Note the top 2 graphs of MSI Afterburner) :

Mail & Settings running in background (High GPU usage)





Force quit Mail. Settings is still running (Still high GPU usage)





Force quit Settings, no background programs running (low GPU usage)

 

Audio Crackles During High GPU usage

I have been trying to use my audio in various ways during programs such as Photoshop and some games, and it always makes a crackling sound that drowns out the actual audio. Even when I use something like Windows Media Player for an MP3 file, something
that according to Task Manager has 0 GPU usage, it makes this annoying sound. What can I do?