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NDIS.sys DPC Latency Issue
*I know this has been threaded all throughout the internet on many different websites and I think we need too get to the bottom of this.
As usual, this is a problem that happens when I use Windows 7 64-bit. (I think it's happened to 32-bit users as well, and I read some cases with XP users... but as for me when I had XP, I never experienced any of this).
In my case, I need to run Windows 7 due to the fact that I have 8 gigs of ram in my system and Windows XP 64-bit has basically no drivers developed for it that are in working condition. My specs are: ASUS M4A785-M mobo, AMD Athlon II X4 620 Processor 2.60GHz, 8.00 GB of RAM, Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller, XFX AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048mb, Steinberg CI1 Audio Interface.
Basically when I disable the network adapter, everything works smoothly, music, games, video files, etc. but once it's on, my LatencyMon shows NDIS.sys running at 33ms where as everything is in the microseconds more or less. Although at the very moment netbt.sys is running at 2ms (I don't know if that's bad or good) but I definitly notice when the network adapter is disable, I get no audio-dropouts/static/distortion. Is there any way of fixing this issue that anyone has come up with? I tried a whole bunch of different methods including updating drivers, uninstalling applications one by one, disabling/enabling different options in control pannel, power management etc. NOTHING but disabling my network adapter does anything so I know that is the problem... The only 2 questions that remain are, how to go about fixing it? and why hasn't Microsoft addressed this issue? (because I see it with all different types of network adapters, not just Realteks.)
Thanks in advance
Last edited by Mindphase; 06 Jun 2012 at 16:08. Reason: just some errors