Sound crackling, clicking etc. when playing sounds

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 clicking or crackling. Those appear in various situations, for example when playing a MP3, videos from YT, gamesounds (especially Assetto Corsa: when revving the engine, shifting down etc.) and so on. Mostly they occur when the sound starts or ends (for example a cut in a film), even the simple windows-sound when adjusting the volume has this problem, when i rappidly klick on the volume-slider.

Things i tried, nothing of them helped:

Reinstalled Windows 7 several times, upgraded to Win10, reinstalled Win10 bought a new headset (QH-95), bought two different soundcards (Asus Xonar D1 and Asus Xonar U7), bought a new mainboard (ASRock Z77 Pro3, same as my old one), updated all drivers (reinstalled windows), checked the sound with the Latency Check-programm (mostly yellow, tried disabling drivers, didn't help), tried playing the sounds without soundcard (Asus Xonar D1) , changed sound frequienzies, played audio without WiFi on, played audio without any devices (apart from headset and mouse), checked with and defragmentaded my harddrive.

There is still no solution until this day. I slowly start to belive i'm the only one who can hear those sounds, it's just crazy and and the same time also depressing.

Examples of videos where the crackling appears for me (tell me if you can hear it):

Crackling starts at 0:20
https://youtu.be/viEwd9xP5Gc?t=20s

Video made by me; right after the downshifts 0:10 - ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEMhWOz6y-c


PC Specs:

Windows 10

ASRock Z77 Pro3
Intel i5 3570k (was overclocked, but I did reset it)
8 GB RAM
ASUS HD 7950
1 TB Harddrive
Thermalright HR-02 Macho (CPU-cooler)

Senneheiser PC360
Asus Xonar D1

Logitech G400 (Mouse)
Logitech G510 (Keyboard)
Logitech Driving Force GT (Driving wheel)

Those are the most frustrating PC-problems i ever had, hopefully somebody can help me.

Regards,
Florian

Hi, just a note on drivers in Win 10. Hopefully you know that most of the drivers are maintained by Uncle MS. If a user installs driver older or newer than Uncle MS thinks is good for you, he will replace it, unless you take special action. (See Tutorial section for how to hide Windows updates).

If you search the forum using the box above, you will find a number of results for 'stuttering' e.g. and plenty of people who've been using LatencyMon from Resplendence

Here are a few I picked out:
https://www.tenforums.com/general-sup...-speakers.html

I've solved the pops and crackles from Realtek chips, and others, by going to Control Panel Power Settings and setting 'Minimum processor state' to 100%.

Not ideal, but serves as a workaround until they release better drivers.

Random Stuttering / DPC Latency Nightmare
I have noticed though that it is only the internal sound card that is affected by this(popping and stuff) by using a bluetooth headset which has no problems with DPC

For those on Intel and raid this might explain something HDD click (excessive load-unload cycles) | Intel Communities

For me the solution was as simple as changing the router beacon interval to 100, over 100 causes stutter on windows 10 and torrent client open.

PC lagging and stuttering during network traffic (Win 10) - Windows 10 Forums
Just an update on this, it seems with the PC in "High Performance" mode these stutters don't occur.

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 case. I did not change a thing on the hardware or software site back in December 2014, it just started the next day and it would become annoying (i noticeed it especially in Assetto Corsa).

I would love to see an answer on the question, if anyone can hear the same crackles/pops in the videos I linked in my starting post above. Thanks!

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Edit:

Just wanted to reinstall Assetto Corsa via steam while i was hearing some music, suddenly I only could hear the sound on my left ear, the right side of my headset was silent. After a restart of my computer, I could hear both sides of my headset again. Just wanted to let that here.

Hi, try searching (the internet) as follows
Asus Xonar crackling

- rather a lot of results.

Feel free to search this forum too for more.

When you use LatencyMon also look at the Statistics and Drivers tabs.
Try to identify drivers responsible and try disabling them.

Process Explorer may help.