HI DPC latency nvlddmkm.sys/dxgkrnl.sys +USB port disconnecting

[DanzoMeteor]

Hi,
I am on Windows 10
I am having USB ports disconnecting and my mouse disconnecting. The mouse LED light would still remain ON yet I'd have to remove it from the usb port and replug it.
I was getting Audio glitches offline and online (seems ok last 3 days?)
Latency mon reports Nvidia trouble

Btw, I have read that Nvidia and Realtek do not work well together in a Win 10 environment?

Things tried: (A lot more but if my post is too long, very few people will read it)
I have tried numerous things to using DDU cleaner to trying 4 different Nvidia drivers
Updating bios, updating USB ports.
I do not have a WLAN card.
I have the power settings to High and disable suspend, and never turn off devices in Device manager.
Really, Nvidia techs and Msi techs do not know how to help me!
My USB dock is stated to require auto powering down when idle by manufacturer design (can't change)
Removed the BItdefender suite and changed to Avira. The latency is lowered but still not gone. At least no audio glitches recently?

PROBLEM is Intermittent. the LatencyMon and perf monitor do not show spikes until at least 1 hour after last reboot.
I have done a xperf trace, synapse upload here

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PC SPECS
Computer Type PC/Desktop
System Manufacturer/Model Number MSI Gaming 7 - X99A
OS Windows 10 64 bit
CPU Intel i7-5820K
Motherboard MSI x99A Gaming 7
Memory G.Skill 16GB 3ghz
Graphics Card MSI Gtx 970 twin frozr
Sound Card onboard Realtek 1150
Killer Ethernet e2200: just changed to qualcomm driver (same hardware) recently as a test.
PSU 850W
Cooling Coolermaster H80i GT
Hard Drives Samsung 850 500GB
INATECK USB 3.0 HDD Docking station
Internet Speed 59Mbps
Browser Firefox/IE
Antivirus Avira

 

[OldGrayGary]

Hi DanzoMeteor


Nice specs on your system. I've got to head out to a few appointments with clients again today (no rest for the busy tech, even on the weekends!) .... but if I'm lucky I'll have some time late tonight to have a look at your data (thanks for providing the specs & SysNative app data). It sounds like you are doing better with the audio, but that the USB issue continues to be a mystery. Interesting case... Check in with you a bit later on.

 

[DanzoMeteor]

Thanks Gary!
What happened to Tomas? You taking over his spot now for dpc issues?

so btw, it seems last few days Audio glitches are hard to reproduce even with multiple off line and online 4k videos running at once with my foobar. I think if we can isolate and fix the usb mouse disconnects, we might be able to rid of the majority of that latency.
The mouse disconnects more frequently now.

Btw, MSI and Nvidia techs are really shaking their heads and don't have a logical answer. MSI just tells me if i want to send back my card I still have time, but really it seems this is a driver/windows issue?

Hi DanzoMeteor


Nice specs on your system. I've got to head out to a few appointments with clients again today (no rest for the busy tech, even on the weekends!) .... but if I'm lucky I'll have some time late tonight to have a look at your data (thanks for providing the specs & SysNative app data). It sounds like you are doing better with the audio, but that the USB issue continues to be a mystery. Interesting case... Check in with you a bit later on.

 

[OldGrayGary]

Hi again


Just a note to say I haven't forgotten you ... but I'm under a deadline (eight or nine hours from now...) ... Glad that some of the issues are getting better - we'll hope a few more tweaks will get things to a reasonably non-glitchy state....

[I don't know all the techs here, I was a regular quite a while back, but had to cut back because my schedule gets so busy... now I visit mainly after new versions of Windows come out (because I almost always beta test them for nearly a year beforehand).... it's also possible that Tomas visits one of our other forums more often (such as the Windows Update forum, or the Windows 7/8 forums.... which also see a fair amount of latency posts) ... }

By late Sunday, I should have a spare minute to look at things.....

 

[DanzoMeteor]

Thanks. Don't overwork yourself! Get rest. If u need me to run more tests let me know. How accurate is LatencyMon? Seems to point to various components
Ndis.sys, dxgkrnl.sys, storport.sys, usbport. It seems very intermittent..right now all the bars are at 3/4. But it tends to climb every hour.

Btw, steelseries, who are a pro gamer mouse company have the absolute worst tech support. They said they won't even help me since I got my mouse on Ebay, but it was Best Buy's official online store and it was brand NEW.
Their techs also just hang up on you on the chat. And their online store is deceptive, canceling an order there was a nightmare last year as they were insistent that I couldn't cancel u ntil I persisted.

 

[DanzoMeteor]

I caught my computer disconnecting and reconnecting something? Like sorta what happens when you disconnect a usb and your screen flashes, tho it wasn't the mouse. Seems I have DCOM (DistributedCOM) errors on Windows 10
Luckily, I found this and maybe it will work?
Just letting u know in case I screw something up , sometimes those regedits may break a system

Windows 1 Event 116 Fix: The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID {D63B1C5-BB46-499-A94F-E4B9D52} and APPID {9CA88EE3-ACB7-47C8-AFC4-AB72511C276} to the user NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE SID (S-1-5-19) from address LocalHost (Using LRPC) running in the application container Unavailable SID (Unavailable). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.I a | Quarter Five – Thoughts and Solutions

 

[DanzoMeteor]

It seems I can't edit my replies here for some reason, no menu button? (Yes I ran as administrator)
Anyways, I can't use the fix on the page I linked..it blocks permission! It seems these are all the event errors that happen at night

 

[OldGrayGary]

Hi again

I started looking at your data last night ... most of your latencies looked fairly OK, but the hard pagefault counts were too high (as one of your graphs shows). By the way, so long as you are using Latency Monitor of a version 6.50 or later, you can reasonably trust the results. Latency Monitor was updated to work with Windows 10 just after mid-year 2015 (end of July maybe?)...

I get the same permissions error on some of my Windows 10 "tester" laptops.... That permissions change article that you linked to is very popular, since that particular error is so common. As far as I can tell, though, I've never experienced any difference in the operation of the laptops with or without the permissions issue resolved. It shouldn't hurt to fix it, of course ... but don't be too surprised if the issue re-surfaces again. Windows 10's Achilles heel seems to have a lot of "permissions bunions" on it :) .....


The issue of the drive disconnecting ("Disk 2 has been surprised removed") seems like it might possibly be related to your USB disconnects -- since the three "spinner" drives are connected through the Inateck USB 3 hub... I'll have to take a look at that ...

I doubt that you experience any trouble at all with the Samsung Evo (wonderful drives, they are)...

I still have to visit your EventViewer logs (they take the most time, since they are saved as text, and aren't sortable... I'll have to take some time to add a how-to for saving the EventViewer logs in the EventViewer format, which makes them much easier to parse & sort & detect issues...) But I did notice some oddly old drivers listed as "RUNNING" (in the Driver logs) ...[MBfilt / dvdfabio / NetworkX / NIWinCDEmu / pwdrvio / SIUSBXP / and four or five that start with "NTIOLib_", and end with Eco - Fastboot - MSIDDR - 1_0_3 - MSIRAID ...] I'll check on these a little more. The last bunch look to be related to the MSI motherboard utilities... They are too old to trust with Windows 10, I fear (most are from 2012, a few from 2014) .. and the other old drivers listed are from 2009 to 2012 ... For the MSI utilities - check on their website to see if these utilities were updated for use in Windows 10 yet... If not, see how things go with them removed. Windows 10 has fairly advanced (and complicated ... in the advanced settings for each device) power options. The disconnects are very likely related to a power setting. For many of the more advanced features, you have to select "change advanced settings" from within the "Change settings for the plan..." screen [in order to delve into the more detailed options]

I'm expecting a setting that allows the USB devices to be turned off to save power might be in play.

Well, that and wondering about the Steel series drivers... and I think the Gigabit Ethernet driver situation is a little strange, but so long as its working - I think either the 2015 drivers or the alternate drivers should be OK ...(the main issue for those would be latency... which seems a lesser issue than the disconnect problem)

I'll check back again ... after a few client visits. From the looks on a diagnostics screen near my closest workstation, it appears one of them will be needing a new hard drive ! ....

 

[DanzoMeteor]

So, I want to ask you Gary. Would it solve all the problems by downgrading to Windows 8.1? Going back to what I had before?

 

[DanzoMeteor]

Well, the Customer support actually exists in Reddit, but none on the main site.

[–]DanzoMeteor 1 point 13 hours ago
Will changing my firmware fix my mouse constantly disconnecting? The lights remain on, but I have to unplug and replug it to work the mouse. And which firmware to change to? have the latest one right now. Instructions to use old firmware?



[–]SS-Matt[S] 2 points an hour ago
There will be a firmware update released this week that we expect to resolve the disconnection issue some people are having. I would recommend updating to that as soon as it is released.



A las! Now let's hope this update really means business. And then all we need to worry about are those awkward page faults, cpu spikes and errors that are robbing bandwidth and cpu cycles in Latency mon.

 

[OldGrayGary]

Hi again

New SteelSeries driver
It would be nice if a newer driver for the mouse helps a bit. From the language used in that post, it sounds like several users are experiencing disconnects.

Windows 8.1
Regarding going back to Windows 8.1: if you upgraded from 8.1 to 10, and it has been less than 30 days since them (I'm thinking that it's likely been longer), you can select a "Go Back To Windows 8.1" option in the Recovery area of Windows 10 Settings [ Start > Settings > Update and security > Recovery > Go back to Windows 8.1 ].... Your issues are most likely due to driver problems, and you might find some relief going back to 8.1. That choice is up to you. You could still upgrade to Windows 10 on or before July 29, 2016 - for free (after July 29, there might be a fee).

Windows 10 Error logs .... (meanwhile, back in the EventViewer forest ...)
In my latest trip into your error logs, I noticed an awful lot of references to "PNP Generic Driver Not Found".... often in reference to an HD Audio device. It's possible these errors point to an issue that might be affecting your audio issues. The simplest tactic for resolving the audio driver-missing situation is to go through Device Manager one audio device at a time, and do the uninstall/reinstall dance. One of the audio devices (possibly two) might be related to your Nvidia drivers.

Your other sources of repeating errors (those happening repeatedly for at least a month):
Firefox (a module called mozglue)
MSI clock service (I believe part of your MB MSI utilities)
Nvbackend.exe/NvStreamNetworkService
Wacom tablet
Creative Cloud

And, strangely enough, you are getting errors for the audiodg.exe module, a module that had a known-issue in Windows 7 and Vista for a memory leak. A hotfix was released for that, way back when. You can check to see if memory usage spikes when audio is played ... I have to wonder if that could effect the hard pagefault problem....

Updating FireFox, checking for newer versions of the MSI utilities for you motherboard (or card) that are more Windows 10 compliant (the "Live Update" module was showing quite a few errors)... See if Wacom has issued any newer drivers for your tablet, and see what the outlook is for Nvidia drivers (you are getting errors for the StreamService [streaming games module]) . Look in on the setup for your Adobe Creative Cloud: it too is showing a fair number of issues in the error logs.

Startup Processes
If you don't plan on using Microsoft's One Drive online backup service, turn off the three processes it is starting at system startup (you can do this from the Startup tab in Task Manager) then follow the steps to disable it as shown in the Microsoft article: Turn off or uninstall OneDrive - OneDrive

Consider turning off the CCleaner monitoring (from its settings menus). I really like CCleaner, but I turn off all it's monitoring functions. To me it is overkill (& a potential source of conflicts)... CCleaner is a great tool when used wisely, but I also like hammers & screwdrivers, but that doesn't mean I like to carry them everywhere I go....

You could likely turn off Megasync while gaming ... & turn it back on afterwards. (in the Startup tab / Task Manager)

You can turn off ShadowPlay, too, for those times when you don't plan on using it. (in the Startup tab / Task Manager)

Others you can consider toggling on/off from the startup tab as needed - Origins Download Manager (EADM... origin.exe) - KakaoTalk - Zinio Reader
___________________________

This is a bit longer than I intended (you should hear my "back in the day" stories ... epics, sagas, eddas they are) --- I'm especially interested to hear if you notice any unusual memory usage by that same audiodg.exe module that caused trouble in Win7 & Vista ... is it still up to its old tricks? Time will tell....

cheers

 

[OldGrayGary]

P.S. .... (I always forget something.... )

Can you also check in on your Virtual Memory settings? (They can affect the pagefault situation)....

 

[DanzoMeteor]

Hi again

New SteelSeries driver
It would be nice if a newer driver for the mouse helps a bit. From the language used in that post, it sounds like several users are experiencing disconnects.

Windows 8.1
Regarding going back to Windows 8.1: if you upgraded from 8.1 to 10, and it has been less than 30 days since them (I'm thinking that it's likely been longer), you can select a "Go Back To Windows 8.1" option in the Recovery area of Windows 10 Settings [ Start > Settings > Update and security > Recovery > Go back to Windows 8.1 ].... Your issues are most likely due to driver problems, and you might find some relief going back to 8.1. That choice is up to you. You could still upgrade to Windows 10 on or before July 29, 2016 - for free (after July 29, there might be a fee).

Windows 10 Error logs .... (meanwhile, back in the EventViewer forest ...)
In my latest trip into your error logs, I noticed an awful lot of references to "PNP Generic Driver Not Found".... often in reference to an HD Audio device. It's possible these errors point to an issue that might be affecting your audio issues. The simplest tactic for resolving the audio driver-missing situation is to go through Device Manager one audio device at a time, and do the uninstall/reinstall dance. One of the audio devices (possibly two) might be related to your Nvidia drivers.

Your other sources of repeating errors (those happening repeatedly for at least a month):
Firefox (a module called mozglue)
MSI clock service (I believe part of your MB MSI utilities)
Nvbackend.exe/NvStreamNetworkService
Wacom tablet
Creative Cloud

And, strangely enough, you are getting errors for the audiodg.exe module, a module that had a known-issue in Windows 7 and Vista for a memory leak. A hotfix was released for that, way back when. You can check to see if memory usage spikes when audio is played ... I have to wonder if that could effect the hard pagefault problem....

Updating FireFox, checking for newer versions of the MSI utilities for you motherboard (or card) that are more Windows 10 compliant (the "Live Update" module was showing quite a few errors)... See if Wacom has issued any newer drivers for your tablet, and see what the outlook is for Nvidia drivers (you are getting errors for the StreamService [streaming games module]) . Look in on the setup for your Adobe Creative Cloud: it too is showing a fair number of issues in the error logs.

Startup Processes
If you don't plan on using Microsoft's One Drive online backup service, turn off the three processes it is starting at system startup (you can do this from the Startup tab in Task Manager) then follow the steps to disable it as shown in the Microsoft article: Turn off or uninstall OneDrive - OneDrive

Consider turning off the CCleaner monitoring (from its settings menus). I really like CCleaner, but I turn off all it's monitoring functions. To me it is overkill (& a potential source of conflicts)... CCleaner is a great tool when used wisely, but I also like hammers & screwdrivers, but that doesn't mean I like to carry them everywhere I go....

You could likely turn off Megasync while gaming ... & turn it back on afterwards. (in the Startup tab / Task Manager)

You can turn off ShadowPlay, too, for those times when you don't plan on using it. (in the Startup tab / Task Manager)

Others you can consider toggling on/off from the startup tab as needed - Origins Download Manager (EADM... origin.exe) - KakaoTalk - Zinio Reader
___________________________

This is a bit longer than I intended (you should hear my "back in the day" stories ... epics, sagas, eddas they are) --- I'm especially interested to hear if you notice any unusual memory usage by that same audiodg.exe module that caused trouble in Win7 & Vista ... is it still up to its old tricks? Time will tell....

cheers

AND ABOUT THIS:
P.S. .... (I always forget something.... )

Can you also check in on your Virtual Memory settings? (They can affect the pagefault situation)....


So you are a total pro network repair tech or a pc hardware tech? You seem very knowledgeable :)
ANyways.. WHOAA MSI just updated their entire Software list on May 6. I swear I just checked on May 5.
The Audio driver, Network, and USB drivers and the MSI utility are all updated 5 days ago.

I heard Intel ME seems to cause conflict, but then I read it that it is required for any OC of your CPU. Since my RAM defaults at 3000mhz, technically my CPU is always mildly OC'd so I installed that.



LOLat Steelseries forum on REDDIT, someone just complained his mouse keeps disconnecting. It's a shame such good hardware is bogged down by such bad firmware! A user said to turn off the color leds
Rival 3�� disappointment. Keeps disconnecting and feels slippery. : steelseries


Win 8.1 : Too late. I "Upgraded" on 4.3.16. LOL I knew it was too early to upgrade, but since we had a deadline and my friend kept pushing me.. I did. Ugh.
I could reinstall windows 8.1 the slow way.. if I really want to? And I still would retain the WIndows 10 license since I already upgraded.
But It seems I'm getting too close to fixing this machine to optimal performance to actually want to do that

Win 10 error logs: I went one by one to see what I could do.
Adobe Creative Cloud: I never liked this software, but it has always been a necessary annoyance. It hogs ram, you can't actually disable it easily (comes back or is in use) and seems to use up CPU cycles.
I'm no longer subscribed and using a portable Cs6 for now, so I just removed the software.

My startup panel always looks like this: I also removed the MONITORING from CCLEANER. Lol, I never knew it was monitoring. I thought disabling CCleaner from startup was enough! It was hidden, that pesky rascal



So here I don't have any of the fore mentioned items in my task list on startup.

Onedrive; Thanks, I disabled that thing!

VIRTUAL MEMORY: Well, It was defaulted at 200Mb. I tried putting it to 2400Mb and it didn't seem to do anything. DO I really need to use up 1.5x 16GB of ram on my little SSD? I was reading many websites say modern PC with 16GB of ram doesn't really need a paging file.

Btw, how do I know which MSI softwares I need?
DO i need ECOCenter? Msi fastboot? (seems to make my PC boot up ultra fast, but at what cost?)

AND about those Pesky NVIDIA services you mentioned. Well, seems NVIDIA has no answers for me but they told me since I'm using the Optical out from my sound card, they have no fault in my issues. LOL! I just sent them a cap of your note mentioning that the Nvidia services keep showing errors.

Wrapup: I'll monitor my system from here on. I'm still waiting on Nvidia and Steelseries to address the issues with new firmware and drivers. I hope the shutoff of the leds will work and hope they fix it in the firmware in case I wanted to turn them on again.. LOl, they annoy me when I want to sleep actually!
It seems the pagefaults still MAX out on the Latency mon tho. And right now after 10min of reboot, it also shows Nvidia nvlddmkm.sys as 427us in DPC latency.
I haven't hit the red zone yet, but its kinda early.

 

[DanzoMeteor]

EDIT: Audiodg.exe some guy said to Dick Van Gelder August 21, 2015 at 7:58 am
It also affects windows 10.
Right click the speaker icon and choose playback, sound devices or sounds.
Click the communications tab.
Windows 10 adjust the sound of any communication sound (I have SKYPE installed)
Choose ‘do nothing’ and put your speakers level at 100% (mine was set on 75%)
This killed the CPU usage.
PS: There is a lot of CPU usage in Windows10 that you need to adjust. It took me days to figure all out.


---hope this works

Oh and here's one thing I'm not sure if its related to webpage design or Windows 10 OR hearing loss. But myself and my audiophile friend both were able to hear well over 20khz
myself tested in 2010 for 26Khz (multiple sites, sound sources) and my friend around 23khz

Lately, testing has said I can't hear anything above 17khz, and then my friend said he also cant hear it anymore.

Hearing Test - Can You Hear This?

Online Tone Generator - generate pure tones of any frequency

 

[OldGrayGary]

Hi again


Well, things look fairly hopeful ....

If you think that you might ever opt to go back to Windows 8.1, you can always make a system-image backup to lock-in your Windows 10 license. Especially if it would fit easily on a spacious external. For all of it's odd interface issues, Windows 8.1 always performed well for the computers I had it on, and for the folks whose computers I installed it on. Not nearly as many driver problems as Windows 10 (which I also like ... I'm lucky that my hardware doesn't have any driver complications).

As far as the MSI utilities go, none of them are critically necessary. You can simply test things with and without them, and see which way you prefer. Older motherboard utilities tend not to do well with new operating systems .. but if they are updated for the new (seems like MSI just did), they have a better chance at not being superfluous. I like to test things out: it's science that way!

See if updating Mozilla FireFox helps at all (if you haven't already) ... browsers can eat up quite a lot of memory (though your system has more than most) ... and they tend to keep a few processes running in the background, so maybe the latest at least won't generate errors anymore.

I figure you can test things with a set range for virtual memory, and if it doesn't help, you can switch it back to the automatically adjusted default. Since you have an SSD and a generous supply of system memory - your system doesn't seem likely to need much in the way of a page file...but then some Windows programs seem hell bent on using a page file & its nice to keep those stubborn programs happy...

Nvidia releases driver updates more often than most (the gaming community pretty much needs them ... since the hardware is always being pushed "to the max") ... so we'll hope for continuing improvement there (the latest version out did fix some issues ... though they might have introduced a few new ones for a few configurations). And it looks like the Steel Series folks are starting to "get the memo".

I'll stay tuned.........

[P.S. ... just saw your edit: my daughters used to tease me about my hearing with an app they'd download for their smartphones ... it would play a mosquito-like buzzing in the upper audio range that you are describing: most folks over 40 can't hear that range anymore [and some young loud music fans, too, I suppose ...and anyone working in a very loud environment]....

I hadn't heard of the CPU usage bug when the volume is upped toward 100%. Thanks for putting that tip here! I'll have a look over on the Microsoft site to see if TechNet has anything new on that.

Never a dull moment!

 

[DanzoMeteor]

Hi again


Well, things look fairly hopeful ....

If you think that you might ever opt to go back to Windows 8.1, you can always make a system-image backup to lock-in your Windows 10 license. Especially if it would fit easily on a spacious external. For all of it's odd interface issues, Windows 8.1 always performed well for the computers I had it on, and for the folks whose computers I installed it on. Not nearly as many driver problems as Windows 10 (which I also like ... I'm lucky that my hardware doesn't have any driver complications).

As far as the MSI utilities go, none of them are critically necessary. You can simply test things with and without them, and see which way you prefer. Older motherboard utilities tend not to do well with new operating systems .. but if they are updated for the new (seems like MSI just did), they have a better chance at not being superfluous. I like to test things out: it's science that way!

See if updating Mozilla FireFox helps at all (if you haven't already) ... browsers can eat up quite a lot of memory (though your system has more than most) ... and they tend to keep a few processes running in the background, so maybe the latest at least won't generate errors anymore.

I figure you can test things with a set range for virtual memory, and if it doesn't help, you can switch it back to the automatically adjusted default. Since you have an SSD and a generous supply of system memory - your system doesn't seem likely to need much in the way of a page file...but then some Windows programs seem hell bent on using a page file & its nice to keep those stubborn programs happy...

Nvidia releases driver updates more often than most (the gaming community pretty much needs them ... since the hardware is always being pushed "to the max") ... so we'll hope for continuing improvement there (the latest version out did fix some issues ... though they might have introduced a few new ones for a few configurations). And it looks like the Steel Series folks are starting to "get the memo".

I'll stay tuned.........

[P.S. ... just saw your edit: my daughters used to tease me about my hearing with an app they'd download for their smartphones ... it would play a mosquito-like buzzing in the upper audio range that you are describing: most folks over 40 can't hear that range anymore [and some young loud music fans, too, I suppose ...and anyone working in a very loud environment]....

I hadn't heard of the CPU usage bug when the volume is upped toward 100%. Thanks for putting that tip here! I'll have a look over on the Microsoft site to see if TechNet has anything new on that.

Never a dull moment!

Well things are moving along, not lightspeed, but they are moving
NVIDIA:
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[TD="colspan: 2"]PNP Generic would have something to do with the monitor being used. The NvStreamNetworkService is an error with Geforce Experience that we are area of and will be resolved in a future update.

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So both Steelseries and Nvidia finally acknowledging a problem after so many complaints. It has taken roughly 4 months for them both to admit this!
--Oh yes I have a Win 8.1 backup image that I made but I forgot about it. I could make a Win 10 one. It might not be long until Steelseries and Nvidia solves the issues tho. Right now it seems my CPU has been idling at 1-3% so i think its all been good!

--Firefox: Oh yes, i went to the site and it said i'm totally updated. But i seem to get pagefaults no matter what browser i use. I was using Chrome and always had those pagefaults maxed out. In fact most of the pagefaults occur when my PC is idle and nothing is open, when I go to bed and leave my PC on at night.
--Latency mon showed: 1412us latency from NVIDIA when I woke up
--Ram: well I guess i could try it at 16GB of paging ram on the disk and if that doesn't improve matters I'm putting it back to small size.

--Hmm, so can you hear those high frequencies on the page or not? What is bothering me is if new software (windows 10! or recent audio drivers) has castrated the sound or i have lost 6khz of range of hearing 17-23khz of range in a small span of 5 yrs. I did find out recently that Youtube can only produce up to 17khz. If i can fix it that would be great. If it's really my hearing, this is a sad day because I've always been proud of having super hearing that i use for amateur audio career that I'm working towards.


EDIT: Should I worry about this?
The SPP service can't connect so It keeps trying. And here's a cap of the overnight pagefaults.


ANYWAYS, I forgot to say THANKS A LOT FOR YOUR TIME SO FAR!! I'm glad I was able to contribute something :) It can kinda be frustrating to be your own computer builder, thus being y our own tech support and your friends retired from all this stuff..

 

[DanzoMeteor]

So, anyways in the above post I put some "Software protection services" errors that run constantly in windows 10. I can see that WIN 10 is definitely not for any kind of production professional.. How to fix it and do I need to?

Good news is that the USB is no longer disconnecting or causing my screen to stop and flicker, beep and recycle. It has been 36 hours without an interrupt! KNOCKS ON WOOD. I think that Steelseries software is really junky! For such a pro gaming mouse they really screwed up their software and I see why people have moved on to FinalMouse which is totally software free. Thing is that the mouse won't even function without the software. U know what? To install this thing, I had to use my 2nd mouse! The Rival 300 wouldn't work until I installed the software and rebooted the computer twice. How lame? But on the other hand, this thing has greatly improved my kills and accuracy in game vs any mouse I've used.

Well, I sure hop the usb disconnects don't continue..seems good for now XD

FIREFOX: it seems 10 yrs has solved nothing for Firefox. It's memory leak is out of control. Shut down Firefox and the memory resides in the task manager, in which you must end process tree. But then the overall memory would still be higher on a fresh boot. Rebooting the PC will further reduce the memory used. I may go back to Google Chrome, but that thing also uses a ton of pagefaults. It seems not as bad as Firefox though. If FF is a 10 on faults, Chrome is a 7. Both still reach red zones.

 

[DanzoMeteor]

Well hoorah! STEELSERIES just released this 2 minutes ago:

New Firmware

• Rival 300 - Fixed an issue that was causing intermittent disconnections and/or an unresponsive sensor for some users.
• Sensei Wireless - Fixed a sleep issue when the mouse is in wired mode.

Well it was already fixed for 48 hours from turning off the LED states. But, I assume most people want to use the LEDs they paid for while not getting disconnects.

 

[OldGrayGary]

Hi again


Lots of good news lately -- glad that things are getting along better. The browser situation isn't wonderful lately, they all try to be quick & fast at what they do: but often that means having several processes running in the background to help them seem faster. The problem is that if several tabs are open and several pages are displaying, the overall memory/cpu usage of the sum total can creep large enough to impact overall system performance (... on a system with as much firepower as yours, you'd only notice it at certain peak periods of brief high demand). If you close the browsers before gameplay or audio/video/musical work, and also kill the browsers background processes (many will still run even if you've closed the browser windows), you might have an additional bit of relief from the pagefaults.

The Software Protection scheduling issue has been linked to time zone issues in some of the earlier builds of Windows 10. This was supposed to be fixed since the late November/early December 2015 updates. Just to see if your system issue matches that particular issue, have a read through this thread over at tenforums (read all the way to the last page --- there are three pages)
Solved Task Scheduler Errors - SPP & other scheduled tasks - Windows 10 Forums

The Latency Monitor folks have mentioned in the past that they believe most high hard pagefault counts are due to excessive consumption of system resources, often occurring by scheduled background tasks. Those can be anything from updating "Live Tiles" on the Windows 10 desktop (news feeds, sports scores, Mail updates), to automated Windows Maintenance tasks (indexing, "Superfetch", defragging [non-SSD drives], etc.), background messaging processes (Skype, etc.), automatic Internet page refreshes, automatic updates - for both Windows and third-party software, ....

Etc, etc, and on and on. High pagefault sources are probably some of the harder things to track down. But it seems you are on the right track overall.
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Hearing loss
I worked in the computer department (now we call it "I.T.") at a medical lab for 20 or 25 years ... back when such places were really noisy (between the zillion fans in the equipment & the frigid, full-blast air conditioning ... plus some crazy loud printers & mailing machines [for sending out the bills] ... plus the clanking, clicking of all the medical apparatus ... ouch!).... My high-end hearing hasn't been wonderful for twenty years or so. My repair work for the last 15 or so years is nicely much quieter (though I do miss those big mainframes, rack servers, and super-redundant operating systems [the old Tandem, VAX, HP-UNIX ....etc) ...

The good news is that it is completely normal to lose some of your very-high end hearing (stuff that isn't all that easy to hear no matter what age you are). If you are worried at all about your hearing, nearly all insurances cover hearing tests. Often 100% :)
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.... Time for another cup of coffee ... I've got to modify a cranky old case for a longtime customer (badly designed case plastics that are falling apart)...

 

[DanzoMeteor]

So why am I getting all of these errors in Windows 10 that were supposedly solved in ancient times past? Like I got some Windows vista or something? Oh God, I hated Vista..nothing good about it.


HEADLINE: Nvidia new driver released on Friday causes Network instability my system. 365.19 . Please check if this the case with you, and rollback! Well it's nice that Nvidia is releasing drivers 4x a month now, but this thing totally destroyed my network. When I launched Battlefield 4, my packet loss was constantly in the red zone (even on 20 pings servers!) and I was being kicked from every server. I couldn't get any kills despite having the top accuracy in the round. My page faults went to max instantly upon install and fresh reboot. I noticed in the chat-room , several people were not getting kills or their opponents would always escape with 1-4% hp. I had the same issue and decided to rollback. After rollback to 365.10 it went away. That was the only change.

Ok so I installed that .reg file and I hoped it fixed whatever error that event viewer is complaining about.

--I started to uninstall all of those live news feeds from Win 10. I thought Microsoft was supposed to be light years ahead of their days long past. Still, they insist on hogging up resources? |
Oh and yes, i always close unnecessary browsers when launching Battlefield 4. I noticed an instant drop in PING .

--I think I saw on this site? That one of the Windows updates in early January broke a lot of computers, causing high audio latency glitches. Apparently it was not compatible with a variety of AV programs, audio and video drivers.

--Well, most hearing centers are only testing if you can hear up to 8-10khz. Below that is clinical deafness. Anything higher scale than that, they consider a luxury and not defined as deafness. But it seems for testing purposes, I have lost some of my luxury hearing skills. Which for 90% of the music listening population would never notice, but if you plan on being a professional, its not good. Basically, doctors only care if an athlete can get out of bed and walk to the bathroom. What they don't care about is if you can play professionally again.