does anyone actually have the Sound Stuttering fix?

[A320]

This means that your motherboard has 2 PCI-Express slots on it. These are the slots in which you install after market video cards. It is normal to have 1-4 depending on the type of motherboard you have. According to your specs, you have a 4870 video card, and that means it is plugged into one of these 2 slots. Your next challenge is to see if the problem is originating from the empty slot or the one with your video card.

Another thing you could check to troubleshoot is to see if your video card inside has a small black audio wire connected to it coming from somewhere off the motherboard or soundcard if you have one. If you do, and you are using the standard green/black/pink ports in the back for your speakers, then take this wire off your video card and see if this solves anything. Otherwise it could be the PCI-E slot in your motherboard itself or possibly the video card causing a disturbence in the PCI-E slot it's in. What make of PSU do you have? You seem to have enough power but the quality of PSU is important.

 

[Antman]

Just in case - make sure the video card is in the correct PCIe slot. Also, check BIOS for the correct setting for the slot, if any. Also, does the video card have a power connection - and if so, is it connected?

 

[Jebus23]

My motherboard has only one pci-e slot. I remember because I had planned to get 2 4870 and run in crossfire. I installed it a few months back in the slot and yes it had a power connection. I would check to see if its still connected but the graphical capabilities of my machine at the moment would not be possible if it it was unconnected. Its strange that the problem is gone by disabling the pcie 802.11n wireless card. My pc still function the same. My gpu is working. I have sound without stuttering. Should I be worried?

 

[Antman]

If you do not use the wireless, and disabling it solves the problem, you are in good shape.

You will still have an unresolved problem in your system capabilities, but it will not affect you.

You may wish to reconsider your assumptions in your original post.

 

[Jag]

The drivers are for network adapters that are using a PCI express slot, at least that's what windows thinks. From what i've read about DPC latency problems, is that they are caused by software problems. And often the driver for wireless network adapters are causing the problem.

So if you don't use it, disabling or removing it physically from your computer is a good option. If you do want to use it, search for an updated device driver.

 

[SheepNutz]

I had a massive audio stuttering problem...and in my case it was some gigabyte utility called Dynamic Energy Saver which I had installed that was causing the issue.

I was having a stuttering sound issue in win7 x64, and having a gigabyte motherboard, I was hoping this was the problem. Well, I uninstalled the energy saver and the easy tune that someone else mentioned in this thread. Well, neither of those fixed the problem. I did finally pin it down to the program SpeedFan though. So, if anyone else is having an issue and has speedfan installed, exit the program and see if that fixes it.

 

[StNick]

Thank you A320! I changed my performance settings to "High Performance" as you suggested, and it seems to have resolved my issue!

 

[A320]

Thank you A320! I changed my performance settings to "High Performance" as you suggested, and it seems to have resolved my issue!

Your welcome , it's nice when things get fixed!

 

[surreyv8]

Hello everyone, I'm new here. Please help. I'm having the same audio problems as some of you - stuttering on windows 7. It can be when using media player or any other sound and sequencing software. Since I compiled this equipment to produce music, it's a bit useless. I'm using an external Roland UA-25EX audio/midi interface as my soundcard. I had the same problem with Realtek and Creative soundcards.
Has anyone posted a remedy yet? Are Microsoft aware of this glitch? Also random mouse cursor - what's that all about? Just goes anywhere it wants!

 

[Roycan]

Sound stuttering fix

I had the same problem. The bothering stuttering and then the computer switched off after one hour or more. I solved it this way: in device manager I disabled the driver that controls the slot PCI Express 2. I tried some other solutions, but unfortunately none of them seemed to work. Then I began to disable all the devices related to USB, sound, internet, and I got it. The program DPC Latency checker was a great help. I hope this can help somebody.

 

[TheEnd]

I just want to say big ups to Jag for his post. The program DPC Latency Checker allowed me to determine that my wireless card (TRENDnet TEW-623PI) was causing audio and video stuttering for me. I simply downloaded the latest drivers from TRENDnet's website, and voila, problem solved (I would have otherwise just disabled it).

Thanks again Jag, that program helped me in fixing this annoying issue.

 

[devnullius]

I went to sleep after installing vpn softwareS - day after, BAD sound

Just posting for my own future reference...

Stuttering sounds, sound that sounds metallic / crippled / digital error-like; combined with high cpu usages to 100%.

Running Windows 7 Enterprise x86.

Not only I installed some VPN tools; also my NVIDIA display driver was updated by Microsoft Update (which failed) and then by me (which succeeded). This could also have something to do with MY specific problem...

One interesting thing to try is removing all network adapters. This might reduce cpu usage.

This improved my situation, but it was not the root cause. After calming my pc down there were still stutters and crackles in the sound.

The latest version Vista_Win7_R251_x86.exe made the problems even worse.

So I tried this driver (after removing the device in device manager, and not re-installing it, I ran setup). After reboot all still seemed bad (tested with youtube in Firefox). So I started Chrome and made some food; while I was preparing my food, I suddenly was greeted by a clear sound from youtube (autoplay).

What happened? I dunno, but this version brings my sounds back to the old state... vista_r218.zip (from: Realtek HD Audio Driver - download tag - Softpedia).

The driver is made for Vista, not Windows 7, and that is why it installs & works perfectly ; P

Peace!

Devvie

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[devnullius]

More information - problem not solved - I'll check PCI-E laters...

Sigh. Me bad. Problem not solved : (

I can add this...

Changing the quality settings for sound to the highest dvd Hz level, reduces the echo-like loud digital noise interruptions, crackling, artefacting and whatever : ) But does not solve it. Neither do the other options seem to matter much.

Also I noticed that going full-screen makes the sound quality poorer with more and louder artifacts. Also, the sound artifacts almost completely disappear when my web-video is hidden behind another screen or playing in a not-selected tab.

This is also the moment that my CPU becomes quiet again. So... I'll repost with more info, but for now my guess goes to the newly installed NVIDIA driver... The bad sound quality then would be caused by high cpu interrupts which prevent smooth video playback. BUT, DPC Latency check (I did not know this program), shows nothing particular. Maybe a yellow spike as an exception, but that's it. Normally all is in the green - also when playing full-screen.

Peace!

Devnullius

 

[devnullius]

8400 GS not to blaim

removed the video-driver, restarted with VGA mode (for there is no more video-driver: ) and still the sound was bad. Feeling stupid, but almost feels like I have to install a fresh Windows all together : (

Devnullius

 

[paduncan]

Audio stuttering problem solved for me

Hi Everybody,

I only registered here to offer a possible fix.

1. Download the DPC latency checker: DPC Latency Checker

This program tests your system and can tell you if you have drivers that aren't performing properly. The only problem is it doesn't tell you which one so you have to disable various drivers one at a time in Device Manager; and observe the effects. After pressing the "reset" button (after disabling a particular driver) it will take the program about 10 seconds to see if there is an issue; which is seen by red bars that indicate latency issues, in real time.

2. Run latency checker

3. Open up Device manager

4. One at a time, disable things like sound cards, network cards, modems; hit reset on the latency checker program, and watch for the dreaded red bars to appear. When they do, the software will give you a message that there is a driver on your system that isn't working right. Keep trying to disable drivers, one at a time. Eventually, you should get to the point where all you see are green bars.

For me, it turned out to be the wireless PCI card. In my device manager, it is listed as: DW15125 (802.11n) WLAN PCIe card. As soon as I killed this, no more red bars, and no more audio stuttering. Unfortunately, no updated drivers are available for this device.

I have a Dell XPS-Studio 9100, 9 GB ram, Win 7 64-bit, Intel i7 930 @ 2.8 Ghz; so everything should be super smooth with this machine. Running Apple iTunes, Windows MP through two seperate sound cards etc. All scenarios had this stuttering issue.

As a precaution, I had also unplugged my bluetooth adapter, a USB Cruiser 8gb thumbdrive, and killed my virus protection. Once I found the culprit (above) I re-enabled all of those things and still didn't have any issues.

This is a desktop and I am "hard wired" into a router with an ethernet cable. No need for wireless here - but the stuttering audio was driving me nuts. I think I tried about 25 things until I used the DPC latency checker to observe the effects on the system when I disabled each driver one at a time.

I hope this works out for others.

 

[zigzag3143]

Hi and welcome


We have been recommending Latency checker for months. It does the job is free and actually works.


Ken J

 

[paduncan]

Indeed - I got the idea to use Latency Checker from this forum, but I didn't really find a nice explanation. My post was just to a) confirm that this is a good method to find the culprit driver b) provide a different style / description on how to use it and to provide which device on my particular system caused the problem.

 

[eg68]

I have problems too with an audio drop-out every few minutes. It sucks. When I use the latency checker, I'm green bars all the way. Ugh.

 

[Aphelion]

I have problems too with an audio drop-out every few minutes. It sucks. When I use the latency checker, I'm green bars all the way. Ugh.

Sounds like a background process interferring. Do you have Windows Defender active, what Virus program are you using?

If you're running any kind of file sharing program with a virus scanner that's doing real-time checking you might get some dropouts.

Also, some of nVidia's background services are real hogs, might open taskmanager
(right click on task bar) and quit some of the nVidia background processes and/or check to see what nVidia services are running. You don't need most of them.

Ap

 

[Tpiom]

Has anyone posted a remedy yet? Are Microsoft aware of this glitch? Also random mouse cursor - what's that all about? Just goes anywhere it wants!

Well, this is the closest I've found; a "Microsoft Moderator" commenting:
Sound skips/cracks under windows 7 32bits.

But to be honest, I don't think she's has the ability to actually deal with the issue. She left the thread as I turned out it's not a local problem

And they're curious why people don't change to Windows 7...