[SOLVED] Latency causing my sound problems?

Labrador · Mar 8, 2015

Hello all,

I have an annoying problem with my PC. When watching DVDs in 5.1 surround sound I get a little crackling/popping noise from every few seconds when the FL and or FR speakers are in use, but never from the centre speaker on its own, even after 10 or 20 minutes of dialogue. In theory I might suspect a short or some other fault with those two speakers, but they work beautifully for hours on end when playing music in itunes. I've got the latest drivers for motherboard and soundcard, but to no avail. The soundcard is a Terratec Aureon 7.1 (set to 5.1) with Teufel 5 speaker set up. All of the right noises come out of the right speakers, but like I said there's those infuriating crackles when a DVD uses the satellites. Other specs are AMD FX8300, 16GB of ram and 480GB Crucial SSD. There's onboard sound, but I've set it to disabled. Graphics card is a GT630. I've done some latency checks and uploaded the results; it looks like several drivers are problematic, but what's the reason?

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Labrador · Mar 8, 2015

Nevemind, it's sorted. Turns out it was Gigabyte's Easytune software; I've removed that and we're all good. :dance:

Patrick · Mar 8, 2015

Turns out it was Gigabyte's Easytune software

You probably had the disk/Windows Update version, which afaik its kernel driver is from 2005? In any case, I wouldn't install that software if it had a 2015 driver.

Jared · Mar 8, 2015

I wouldn't touch that software with a barge pole. It's notorious for causing issues, it's not even required, so just rid it.

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[SOLVED] Latency causing my sound problems?

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