Windows 10: Sound Crackles

Whenever I'm watching a stream or playing a game with a stream my sound crackles and pops. I'm using Sennhieser PC 363d and I've tried another headset and also speakers and I'm still experiencing the sound issues. It started happening about 3 weeks ago when I started playing The Division. When the sound is crackling it makes my computer lag and the LEDs on my keyboard skip with the lag. I'm not sure what to do, I'm hoping someone here can help me *Sad

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Video I record has Crackling sound in audio. I notice it more in HD video. Why?

When, I record video, I get crackling sound in my audio. Why? Great video and audio for the most part but the crackling sound is annoying.

 

Low FPS and Stuttering after Windows 10 Creator Update

They are connected bot sound and slow load.

In world of warships after a 2-3 minutes when finally load game it start sound crackling until it fully load the game.

I have little details on ship and no camo until it is fully loaded and then only sound crackling less but still and I have off board Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatality card.

No problems until 1703 update.

There is a beta drivers fix on Nvidia site.

It helps a little.

warships no more slow load and sound crackling but tanks have sound crackling during load only but it load at normal speed

 

It is not the sound that causing the computer lag etc. But a common thing is causing it all.

As you said, it is happening in a game. Make it sure if it is only a single game, or the same thing is happening with any game.

If it is happening with a single game only, then the game itself causing the entire issue. Let Steam know about it, ask the devs for patches or custom settings that will work for your system.

If the issue occurs in any other game too, then troubleshooting will be needed at your part. So let us know about it.

 

Hey I'm really sorry for disappearing. Had a family emergency that involved me leaving the country. I hope you're able to still help me.

Some things to note. It happens on any game. Also when I started my computer, updates started to download. I'm watching a stream as they were updating and my sound was popping and crackling big time. I loaded up WoW and it started happened a lot while watching a stream. I watched my GPU power % on MSI Afterburner and it was dropping from anywhere between 90% to 40% power going back and forth. The game was running terribly, frames spiking from 30fps to 150 fps every couple seconds. LEDs on my keyboard were stuttering a lot. Everything seems to bog down depending on how bad the crackle and pop is.

 

Do one thing, boot into the BIOS and load the optimized defaults. It will rule out any possible overclocking there.

Then stress test the Graphics Card using Furmark. Upload the screenshot for us. Also let us know if you have experienced any crash/BSOD and/or artifacts during the test.

 

Hey Ark thanks for the response sorry I haven't been able to get back on here recently but I should be good from this point on. I did as you said and loaded optimized defaults as I did have an OC before. I'm currently running Furmark and am 16k frames into the test so I'll update once it's done

 

Ok so I had done the test for much longer but the screenshot didn't work so I had to restart it.

 

Download and run the free Resplendence Latency Mon. It should show what app(s) is causing the problem.

Resplendence Software - LatencyMon: suitability checker for real-time audio and other tasks

One issue with on-line streaming is Wi-Fi is a known cause of your problem. If you are using Wi-Fi, run with an Ethernet cable if possible.

 

Hey I just ran it and here's what it says. In the past week I went over to WiFi because I need to have my computer somewhere else that is temporary. I was originally using the Ethernet cable when this problem first came up.

 

I updated my Bios so I will test it out and see what happens.

 

Ok so I ran LatencyMon and it says everything is fine but when I open a game or browser it says what is pictured above the only difference is the text is red this time.

 

"Sounds" like Wi-Fi is one cause of the problems, as I previously noted.
If you disable the Wi-Fi adapter and run local (not on line) and run the Latency Mon and it shows all is OK that says the Wi-Fi is one cause of the problems.

I have a recording studio and in the recording studio world, Wi-Fi is always a "no no" because of pops/clicks/drop outs, etc.

 

I tried it while not connected to WiFi and it say all was good. Also noticed after I upgraded my bios that the issue seems to have stopped. I'm wondering since I was directly connected to the modem when this problem first came up if it was my bios/motherboard the whole time?

 

NGB5, there are several possible causes, so this cure probably won't work for you. But it worked for me.

I had a crackling sound because my speakers were too high. By raising the volume through the Windows software, and lowering the volume by turning the knob on the back of the speaker, I got the same volume without the crackling.