Latency issue?

[LBuckingham]

Hi all,

I've just started getting audio dropouts in Windows 10 - at its most obvious when web pages are rendering. If I disable the firewall in Outpost Security Suite Pro 9.3 and use the windows firewall instead, this seems to ease the situation quite a bit, but I still get the occasional audio stutter. All drivers up to date, as is bios.


etl file is here: https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=2CC86AC4535CEC19!934&authkey=!AGOfEIrIWrlP9xY&ithint=file%2cetl

LatencyMon: Microsoft services


Specs are:
ASRock Extreme3
AMD Phenom II X4 955BE
12GB RAM
EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G2 Gold
Gigabyte 5750 + Asus 7450
Sound Blaster Omni 5.1 (USB)
Sandisk 480GB SSD
OCZ 120 GB SSD
Hitachi 3TB HDD

Any assistance greatly appreciated.

 

[AceInfinity]

Try a different browser and see. Firefox appears to be using a significant amount of your CPU, and much more than any of the other running processes for you. If this only happens when opening up webpages, this is probably the issue. You have a lot going on from what I can tell - lots of programs are running. If it were to happen with a clean boot state with minimal programs running then the issue is likely to be more of a concern IMHO.

I used to be a regular Firefox user until it started to consume > 1000Mb of my physical memory over time. It appears that the developers have a memory leak to fix. My # of open tabs can remain the same for a while, and the memory usage continued to go up. Not that chrome is any better, but at least it remains responsive because of the way tabs are created as separate processes. Edge had some issues navigating pages that I regularly visit as well, and lacks a lot of the web tools that I like using.

 

[LBuckingham]

Thanks, I'll give that a go. I must admit, I do usually have a heck of a lot of stuff running, so maybe I'm creating my own problem to a point. I've raised a ticket with Agnitum because I seem to remember a few years ago people reporting this same issue to them following some update to Outpost. Thanks for your help.