Hi all
Phrozt --- quite a light show you've got going there.
Quick-fix try:
Try booting into Safe Mode & see if your light show continues (probably won't). Remove your current audio, video, and networking drivers while in there. Start in Device Manager, and then visit Programs & Features and clean up any leftover utilities or related software.
When reinstalling the Nvidia drivers, use the "custom" method, and also choose the "clean install" option. You can choose to do without several of the optional GeForce Experience modules, and perhaps the Nvidia Streaming Service. Here are a few guides to the pros & cons for most of those optional Nvidia modules:
Disable NVIDIA Streamer Service and other NVIDIA processes - gHacks Tech News
Turn Off NVIDIA Windows Services You'll Never Use | Lifehacker Australia
This might help for short term relief. In the long run, though - see below
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Try a clean install of Windows 10.
Program Files, Program Files (x86), and user profiles
In your first link, you mention moving things from the old installation to the new. That's not a problem if you simply move documents from one Document folder to another ... but of course you shouldn't do that with things in the Program Files, Program Files (x86) folders ... or copy a user profile from one system to another. The hidden ProgramData folder shouldn't be copied, either. .... When these folders are copied, the Registry entries that such programs rely on will likely either be not present, or simply problematic.
If you've done all three of those: you might want to start over with a fresh download of the latest build of Windows 10 directly from Microsoft, and do a clean install. Set the BIOS/UEFI settings in your motherboard setup to defaults. After the clean install, make sure to turn on System Restore. Then let the inevitable rounds of Windows Update begin. You can speed these up by manually "checking for updates" & selecting "install now". With System Restore active, if an update proves to be unstable, you can simple use System Restore to safely return to stability. You'd want to check through the list of updates that arrived just prior to the instability ("View my update history"), and then research the likely suspects. Don't install any utilities, games or programs until the new installation has no more Windows updates for the base system.
I recommend NOT installing the ASUS motherboard utilities. So far, their track record in Windows 10 doesn't shout success.
Then - if audio/video stuttering/artifacts continue, here's a list you can try for the "usual suspects":
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Some things to try for limiting audio/video glitches due to high latency issues and high hard pagefault issues
SSDs
Since SSDs are dropping in price and growing in size, I've lately been recommending that the worst-offending audio-pop suffering programs/games be installed onto the SSD. Windows doesn't take up all that much room, and neither do a few games (you can still keep "saved games" and other non-demanding software installed to a larger "spinning" hard drive, along with your photo, music, and video collections).
SATA ports
Some users who haven't seen any improvement by means of updating drivers have had success by altering their SATA port usage. A recent thread here concerns a system where the audio stuttering was helped by unplugging a DVD SATA drive (...and our tech Cluberti was nice enough to help explain why) ... The last few posts are where you will see mention of the SATA ports (and the nature of USB polling & the effect on latencies) .... Here's a link to that thread:
https://www.sysnative.com/forums/wi...efaults-fresh-install-usbport-sys-others.html
Hard Pagefaults
For the high hard pagefaults, it can help to:
1) Limit startup processes that you don't need
2) Limit Windows-Updates file-sharing (in Settings > Updates and security > Windows Update > Advanced Options > Choose how updates are delivered > turn off "updates from more than one place" - that will limit unnecessary background network activity)
3) Limit the amount of "telemetry" (data sent to Microsoft ... choose the "Basic" option in Settings > Privacy > Feedback & Diagnostics ... and you can try "Never" as your "Feedback Frequency" while testing your latency issues)
4) Limit any Notifications that you don't need or want (Settings > System > Notifications & actions (ie: you don't need "Windows tips", etc.)
5) Turn off "Live" tiles on your Start Menu (to limit unnecessary background updating of any information you don't want or need)
6) Uninstall any Windows "Universal" apps that you don't want or need (Settings > System > Apps & features -- click the app you wish to uninstall) ... and for those that you don't want, but can't uninstall (some of the built-in apps) - you can still keep them from starting unwanted services (in Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services) or startup modules (in Task Manager > Startup tab)
Drivers
Hunt Windows 10 compatible drivers for any older hardware - especially any USB devices (gaming mice, keyboards, audio controller boxes, musical instruments, mixers, video/audio capture devices ....etc)
Nvidia drivers / ASMedia USB 3.1 drivers / Network drivers / storage drivers (especially Intel's iastor.sys) ... these are a few of the worst offenders. Sometimes newer Windows 10 drivers work. Sometimes a generic works better.
Antivirus
Some users find that certain modules of their antivirus program can have a rough affect on their audio quality. For some, it is especially noticeable when using the third-party firewall. You can try reverting to using just the Windows firewall, or to turn off a feature in the third-party firewall that blocks port scans (since most routers/modems/gateways have built-in port scanning blocking, it doesn't necessarily lower your defenses, since your hardware provides the service). Some systems have been reported to have trouble with some versions of Norton and Avast in Windows 10. As time goes on, these issues should subside.
Virtual Memory & a large set range
Since some computers experience the audio/video glitching during gaming, and Latency Monitor graphs often point to high hard pagefaults as a contributing factor (as in the pagefault tips above), I like to recommend testing things with the Virtual Memory settings for your computer manually set to a generous range (generally, with the lowest value the amount of your total installed physical system memory, and the highest value twice that number). This is an overly large range = but it can prove useful for testing. [after testing, the upper range could be lowered to one and a half times the physical memory total]... The reason for the large set range is that some games are infamous for memory leaks, and the large range might give you a better chance of surviving the memory trouble caused by the game with the memory leak.
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If I get a chance later on, I'll have a look at your trace, too.
[ ... and hi there, xilolee - busy around here, huh! ]