Well...that's a simple solution which does not work for me.

dalchina No ideas anymore? Too bad...

No ideas anymore?

Tried everything, meanwhile my mainboard and my graphics card died, i had to replace them both (now GTX460 + old ASRock Z77 PRO3).
Sound crackling is still there.

Mh...the thing is, i bought the soundcard BECAUSE of the soundproblems, it thought a soundcard would fix the problem (problem exists also without soundcard).
I'll try the motherboard drivers now.

Okay, should I try to install those updates?
I did hide the Windows Updates now.

The graphs look like this now.

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Okay, it seems that I first installed the wrong driver for my soundcard which caused some issues. Installed the right one, now i can use it without problems.
But there are still crackles which don't...

Okay, a part of the crackling is solved.
"cmudaxp.sys" created some huge DPC spikes therfore I simply deactivated the soundcard and a part of the crackling is gone now.
I checked the latency with...

No, I use GData Antivirus.

The windows of the DPC Latency shows this:


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LatencyMon shows this. I already googled about the USBPORT.sys but this seems to be an issue which is more related to Windows 7.

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Actually, I bought the soundcard because of the crackling/pops (see "Things i tried" in the start post). Tried to deactivate it again, didn't help. But thanks for your help anyways!

Thanks for the answers.
Sadly, not any one of them helped. I already did have the problem on Win7, actually I upgraded to Win10 because I hoped the new OS would resolve the issue, which is not the...

Just checked again with the Latency Tool, it constantly shows yellow bars, so I have to correct the list above. Tried disabling the drivers in the device manager, didn't help.

To the questions:
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No idea?

Hello there,

I just got myself registered and I have some problems with my sounds (text is copied from sevenforums; some may know it).

Problem:
You could describe the problem as a sound...