Windows 10: Random Stuttering / DPC Latency Nightmare

Has anyone had success with disabling the onboard lan and using a pci card instead. If so, which one did you buy ?

 

Don't want to jinx it but I think this might be fixed for me. Have had my torrents open for a few hours and no stutter yet. No spikes on Latencymon either. There was a few W10 updates and a Realtek LAN update in the last week and one of them seems to have done the trick. Will report back if the problem pops up again.

Edit: Problem still occurring, possibly less frequent though.

 

Ok, i just purchased a Intel pro/1000ct pcie card, hoping disabling the onboard card will work. Will come back with results.

 

I used to have a lot of latency problems in Windows XP and Windows 7, but then I purchased a new external DAC (a Schitt Bifrost) and all my problems disappeared. It's now evident that the Latency Monitor was leading me down the wrong track.

 

I've been haunted by annoying stutter on my Minix Z64W connected to the TV. I narrowed it down to only when uTorrent is open, but couldn't figure out why.
I thought it started after upgrading to Win10, but around the same time I also played with the router config and changed the beacon interval to 1000. Setting it back to 100 made the problem disappear. Never would have guessed this in a million years!! How did you figure it out? Anyway, thanks so much, you saved me *Smile

 

Just FYI, the beacon they're talking about is for wifi, not lan. Normally the default is 100.

 

Also, the pro/1000ct pcie card i bought has not helped the issue. So a new ethernet card is not working even tho it's a different brand.

 

is that an Intel card? Do you know the exact model?

 

I can confirm that stuttering exists — it's not that annoying anymore, but it is, even after all possible updates installed. It's not random but always linked to network stack/activity. There is no stuttering if network is down.

 

for me, it seems that Kaspersky Internet Security is the highest contributing factor for me. LatencyMon showing me afd.sys is a big one. ndis.sys, tcpip.sys... dxgkrnl.sys and nvlddmkn.sys as well. I think it's pretty clear that Chrome is involved in alot of my crackling, and uTorrent sometimes sets it off too. Currently have Kaspersky paused, and Windows Defender on instead... still crackling sometimes tho. But I uninstalled Kaspersky completely a couple days ago, and the latencies were much improved. I think I should blame Microsoft here. Something about how it handles tcp/ip in general, causing some hardware to "not get along", add in Kaspersky, which is probably quite aggressive in analyzing packets. I NEVER had this problem in Windows 7, and the Nvidia driver seems unlikely, as I recently upgraded from an old ATI card.

 

Here is a weird thing.. when running DPC latency checker (I know it's old, it's helpful in realtime bar view) with streaming music playing, all bars green. Stop playing network music, yellow bars. Play music again, green! wtf

 

I don't know what is happened, but some time ago stuttering just gone. I think MS just did something, I have not changed anything.

 

Just stop using obsolete software that can't work correctly with this OS.

 

So what do you recommend in stead, Mein Fuhrer?
LatencyMon?
I suggest you stop being an asshole and answer politely

 

Yes, LatencyMon is your best choice, Mein Volk. You don't need any green/yellow bars, you have full statistics about latency for every driver or whatever executable.