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Thanks to the contributors on this forum I was able to get the cracking to go away on my Win7x64 system with the Realtek HD audio. This also cured another symptom that I had with playing video in Itunes in which the audio would get further and further behind the video.
After trying several drivers this one change worked for me:
Control Panel --> All Control Panel Items --> Power Options
Select "Change Plan Settings" on the power plan you are using will take you to
Control Panel --> All Control Panel Items --> Power Options --> Edit Plan Settings
Select "Change advanced power settings" which will bring up a Power Options settings box
Expand "Processor power Management"
Expand "Minimum Processor state"
Set to "100%"
Apply That is all.
That worked for me. I later used the DPC Latency Checker tool (mentioned a couple of pages back) to verify that, on my system at least, any setting below 70% caused high DPC latency and a return of cracking and delays.
This issue came close to making me ditch Win7 and go back to XP. This thread lead me to the solution.
Thanks
Using realtek R2.34 drivers C2D E8400 on G31 gigabyte MB
Last edited by nonews; 07 Jan 2010 at 21:00. Reason: added screen caps