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Pops and cracks playing music (huge latency caused by network traffic)
Hi!
OK, this is an OLD issue that just vanishes by itself from times to times without any noticeable reason, leaving me alone for some time and then out of the blue it returns. After several months of peace it came back a couple weeks ago.
The issue: when playing tunes (I use Foobar 2000) the music start popping and crackling and lagging. The problem will happen using ANY player.
What I figured out: using "DPC Latency Checker" I noticed that I have a huge lag (only high red bars) and noticed also that it i's caused by my network traffic. It's just to disconnect from the Internet or plug off the wi-fi adapter to make the problem disappear and the big red latency bars become small green chunks. SO I am not sure if the problem is being caused by network traffic or wi-fi traffic.
What I tried: the only things I did was to disable the sound card driver effects and also tried to install ASIO4ALL. Nothing of this made any difference.
Although I know where is the problem I don't see what is causing it and therefore cannot solve this. My computer is a desktop so I cannot move around and also cannot plug it directly to the router using a LAN cable (if wi-fi is the problem). It is not too far from the router, less than 10 meters and there is not a wall between them (I can even see the router from my work desk).
Any idea on how to solve this? I never had such problem when I used XP and it just started after I move to W7. I googled after some similar issue, found something but didn't find any solution.
PS: My sound decoder hardware is a Behringer UCA 222 (external USB) but I used to experience the very same issue when I used the mo-bo on board adapter, so I know that the culprit is not the sound card.
Any input appreciated!
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EDIT: I may have started a similar thread in the past, I really don't remember. If so, I am sorry, it is just that it is an issue that every now and then comes and goes and that I never managed to find a definitive solution for.