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

Honestly, it looks to me like the CPU is having trouble keeping up. Do you know what ROCCAT_Swarm_Monitor.exe is doing? It looks like it's sometimes using quite a lot of CPU resources. Is there a correlation with when it was installed and the audio issues?
 
are you sure you are looking at my trace and not at trace of my friends system ? i have no roccat hardware.
he has so i guess you may look at his trace
 
Sorry, my bad. You're correct, I double-clicked the wrong etl file to see if I could find anything in WPA rather than XMA.
 
In the videos you made I can see what I believe is the FH5 taskbar icon looking like the game has been minimized. Is it minimized or do you have it open and running on another monitor? I'm seeing GPU usage on your system that isn't showing up on your friend's trace. I can see that both traces have FH5 running but I'm wondering if yours is open and running on a second monitor while your friend's is actually minimized.
 
both are open and running on the second monitor but it acually doesnt matter.
i also get the crackles when its minimized.
i was roaming my bios yesterday and i saw that there was a option enabled to sync all cores.
this is the default option.
i know that because i loaded the default options and saw no changes in any options.
i will try to disable this option today since you said that core 0 has a higher load than others.
maybe letting the cpu choose the right mhz for the cores seperately will help the cpu to get rid of the extra load.
are there any other bios options i could try that you can think of the top of your head ?
 
That's not something I would have thought of but it sounds like a good idea. Please let me know how it goes.

edit: The only BIOS setting I was going to suggest was making sure the onboard audio is disabled to make sure it's out of the equation.
 
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Have you already tried lowering the settings in FH5 to see if less demand on the CPU by the game makes a difference?
 
still no progress on my end :D ill buy a new GPU soon and if that doesnt fix it ill buy a new mainboard and cpu
 
Please do let us know if that fixes it. I'd also be curious to look at a trace if it does... ?
 
Hey, any update on the issue? did CPU or Mobo fix that? I'm having the same weird issue. though I tried 8 sound cards even with external DAC/AMP, it only happens with 3.5mm headphones not with some cheap USB headphones. I couldn't even record the sound issue, it just come out clean from the computer and playing from the same computer would cause the same popping form the computer it self. I just need to know if it could be the CPU or MOBO because I have no idea what could change except firmware update to mobo
 

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