Sound crackling / pops / Clicks while playing games and listening to music

Is the refresh rate on your new monitor significantly higher than the old monitor?
 
my main monitor has a framerate of 144 Hz and my new on 165 Hz but i also tried to disconnect the 165Hz and only use my 144hz monitor
edit: i didnt unplug it. i will try unplugging it tomorrow but i think i had the crackles even before i got the monitor
 
The trace is showing ISRs and DPCs consistently using more CPU on core 0 than recommended. Please try downloading and running Process Explorer using right-click -> Run as administrator and using it to monitor Interrupts. First while the system is idle and then while triggering the audio glitches. Process Explorer is supposed to be more accurate.
 
okay so i made another video with Process Explorer open and i suddenly found a way to get a lot of the crackles.
I changed my audio volume which made them appear consistently....
the interrupts seem stable

 
Can you open up the CPU details tab in Process Explorer and make a video triggering the glitches while showing the context switch, interrupt, and DPC delta counter? Of particular interest is core 0 as that's where audiodg.exe processes audio.
 

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Cracks and pops are apparently not uncommon when manipulating the volume slider. I can generate them on my machine by opening the volume mixer and clicking repeatedly on the Applications System Sounds slider. I don't even need to move it... just repeatedly click it. And yet I don't get the cracks and pops if I do the same to the Device Speakers slider. I don't know why it happens for one and not the other.
 
okay so i also tested it on my other setup and your right i can hear crackling when using the slider but far less.
but here is a video of the crackles with delta on screen without using the slider.

 
maybe this tells you something worst crackles i had in a while just had to boot up spotify and play the game at the same time
 
Can you get a trace using the MXA profile while doing what you were doing in the latest video? Also, please uninstall LatencyMon as it installs a driver that simulates media playback which makes general performance somewhat worse and can interfere with the trace.
 
Thank you. I'll have a look and let you know what I find.

Have you tried playing a media file locally rather than over the Internet to see if it also has glitches?
 
thank you :)
I tried right now there seem to be less crackles but they also appear to happen with offline media
 
Are both systems connected via Ethernet? If so, can you try switching cables to see if it makes any difference?
 
i already tried to play offline (ethernet unplugged and ethernetadapter disabled) and the crackles also started to appear after around 30min
 
When you try the other system, does it also have FH5 installed and running in the background while working with other apps/programs? If so, I'd be interested in a 30 second trace from that machine to get a sense of what's going on in a system not having the glitches. Is that an option?
 
it doesnt have FH5 :( but i know someone with a simular setup but he wont be home for the next 2 weeks after that i can ask him to do a trace
 
Hopefully we'll figure it out before then but, if not, I might need such a trace for comparison if it's not too much trouble.
 
Do you remember which BIOS version you were running before updating to the latest? The Spectre/Meltdown security update had a significant performance impact on some CPUs. I think they've managed to claw back some performance since, but not all.
 
Please post a screenshot of the Ethernet adapter driver properties. I'm seeing a driver named e1d65x64.sys making some very long running calls running on core 0 which would be interfering with the audio output stream. However, I don't see that driver listed in your Drivers(1).txt file. I see an Intel Gigabit Adapter NDIS 6.x driver in the text file but the driver is named e1d.sys which seems inconsistent.
 
im not sure if you talk about this but if not let me know
 

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