Comments on: Crackling Sound in Center Speaker with Realtek Drivers (Analog) https://www.BeatificaBytes.be/crackling-sound-in-center-speaker-with-realtek-drivers-analog/ The Joys of Computing Fri, 08 Jul 2016 17:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 By: Valery Letroye https://www.BeatificaBytes.be/crackling-sound-in-center-speaker-with-realtek-drivers-analog/#comment-224 Fri, 08 Jul 2016 17:09:00 +0000 /wordpress/?p=1497#comment-224 The cracking noise came back once more and I didn’t succeed to fix it. But I found a “workaround”.

Latency monitor (see previous comment) spotted nvlddmkm.sys from nvidia as being the driver with latency issue (I have a GeForce GTX 760 and a GeForce 8800 GT which requires an old driver version to work side by side). Not finding immediately a solution, I decided to reinstall Windows 10 and the most recent drivers for the GeForce GTX 760 only.

But it didn’t solve the issue. So, I have investigated further and found a tool which can switch off the powermizer feature of the graphic card (http://www.nvidia.com/object/feature_powermizer.html). And that reduce a lot the issue !!!

That tool – named Powermizer Switch 1.2 – is available here: https://app.box.com/shared/v7jpoateoq

Knows issues with that tool:
– Does not work with UAC turned on. You must “Run as Administrator” the tool.
– If nothing seems to change, restart the PC.

]]> By: Valery Letroye https://www.BeatificaBytes.be/crackling-sound-in-center-speaker-with-realtek-drivers-analog/#comment-223 Thu, 23 Jul 2015 20:08:44 +0000 /wordpress/?p=1497#comment-223 After a recent “Windows Update” (including drivers update), the cracking noise came back… This was due to a driver which introduced latency… Read this article to investigate such an issue: http://www.komku.org/2013/06/how-to-fix-crackling-popping-sound-problem.html (More on http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml)

As far as I am concerned, my issue came from a recent update of the Intel Network driver. I did uninstall the network adapter and delete the driver (an option to tick when uninstalling the adapter). Next, I did re-scan for hardware changes. The network adapter came back but with the native Microsoft driver. And I had not latency issue anymore…

Another tool to investigate latency issue: http://www.resplendence.com/latencymon

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