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Audio scratching and delays, whole system freezes / hiccups

Yeah, I think that was it. WSL uses Hyper-V (it's a bit of a complaint apparently because it interferes with VirtualBox among other things) which must be incompatible with my hardware and was causing my BSODs. What confuses me was the timing. I'd have about 45 minutes using the computer normally...
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- Post #19
- Nov 23, 2021
- Forum: Windows 10
Audio scratching and delays, whole system freezes / hiccups

Here's another thing though and this might be WSL related. Hyper-V. I've seen this mentioned a lot recently and I don't know if I had it before, if I need it, what it is in detail (I've read about it briefly) or if it's causing problems. I think it's needed for WSL v2 (but not 1?) and perhaps my...
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- Post #18
- Nov 22, 2021
- Forum: Windows 10
Audio scratching and delays, whole system freezes / hiccups

It's worked for 9 6 years. Lots of slowdowns and freezes right now including one that I thought was going to BSOD. Looking at Reliability Monitor I can see now that the problems most certainly started after installing updates. On the 16th I had a Driver Installation Module crash. It was waiting...
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- Post #17
- Nov 22, 2021
- Forum: Windows 10
Audio scratching and delays, whole system freezes / hiccups

If they weren't supported they wouldn't work; Windows installed these itself. The 3rd-party apps are the easiest way to see if there are updates that the Windows labs haven't gotten around to testing yet. I agree with you about not using them generally. I used to some years back but then got...
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- Post #15
- Nov 22, 2021
- Forum: Windows 10
Audio scratching and delays, whole system freezes / hiccups

:ROFLMAO: Now you're just being silly! Actually I loved Windows 8, but I was using a laptop with a touchscreen at the time. I'm going to try downgrading (my drivers, not Windows!) tomorrow and play around with Linux for a bit instead tonight.
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- Post #13
- Nov 21, 2021
- Forum: Windows 10
Audio scratching and delays, whole system freezes / hiccups

EDIT- I've been trying to post this for the last two hours. Fixing Linux took some time but we're mostly there now. Wow. So just as I submitted my last post I hard-locked again. I should have waited for the others to go to BSODs as this one did as presumably they would have eventually had I been...
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- Post #12
- Nov 21, 2021
- Forum: Windows 10
Audio scratching and delays, whole system freezes / hiccups

Thank you for your report. Things did seem to get somewhat better after the update but I've had three hard locks (frozen screens, two as BSODs that didn't reboot) since. My 3rd-party driver apps say there are no updates to either of those devices but I believe these were updates suggested by...
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- Post #10
- Nov 21, 2021
- Forum: Windows 10
Audio scratching and delays, whole system freezes / hiccups

Update! So I ran LatencyMon again for longer this time and really paid attention to the fact that network traffic through the Windows network driver was spiking in the red hard. This provoked me to quit my torrenting client and I did notice an improvement. I wouldn't say things were fixed but I...
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- Post #7
- Nov 20, 2021
- Forum: Windows 10
Audio scratching and delays, whole system freezes / hiccups

Heh, whoops! Turn that 9 upside-down. ;P I installed 10 fresh on the very day it stopped being free with a Windows 7 or 8 licence (but then became free again later of course). I did what you said and got what you said so "no drivers are currently verified" on my system. Thanks for your...
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- Post #5
- Nov 20, 2021
- Forum: Windows 10
Audio scratching and delays, whole system freezes / hiccups

No, this hasn't fixed things at all actually. YouTube videos in Edge are still stuttering. :( In fact I think it might be worse now?
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- Post #3
- Nov 19, 2021
- Forum: Windows 10
Audio scratching and delays, whole system freezes / hiccups

A small update: I've read in a few places now e.g. Setting "Power management mode" from Adaptive to Maximum Performance | NVIDIA that doing this fixes things and yes, I'm seeing some improvement although I still don't think things are completely corrected. I forgot to mention in my original post...
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- Post #2
- Nov 19, 2021
- Forum: Windows 10
Audio scratching and delays, whole system freezes / hiccups

This is only a recent problem. I have some suspicions- A recent hp printer install. It uses Scan to Computer technology which I suspect is constantly pinging out over wi-fi even though the process is disabled and my adaptor is off. I recently installed WSL (Linux integration) but then I have my...
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- Nov 19, 2021
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- Forum: Windows 10

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