How to Fix Crackling or Popping Audio Problem on Windows 10

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[@johammerstein3605]

I have windows 8.1 and there's no power throttling section in the Select Columns.

[@vyzerionlol6721]

Britec09 Hello, when i play games my laptop stops making crackling sound but when I just do normal internetting it just starts crackling inside. But this has norting to deal with the sound? Help pls

[@dragnoft619]

thank u old man

[@Alfista_]

I love u man, omg

[@bengodwin3515]

who else is watching this on some crackling headphones lol

[@riverhydra999]

Pls tell me how did you solve it

[@wencente6577]

@@riverhydra999 did someone solve it??

[@riverhydra999]

@@wencente6577 I just asked if anyone had solved it

[@riverhydra999]

@@wencente6577 f you want any software for free tell me i will make a video on that. I have made video on Bandicam full version for free, adobe photoshop cs 5 for free. And now i am going to make on some paid softwares for free. I have downloaded free version if adobe animate too but not made a video on that.

[@eveshadow6428]

me

[@gutar5675]

I feel like I've tried literally everything and can't figure out why I have these stuttering robotic noises.

[@djmiansf]

I have the same problem only with the External audio interface (UAD Arrow) while streaming . I tried everything and still having a problem. interesting thing is that when I record the audio in ableton everything is fine. the only issue is with streaming. When I use the desktop audio it works perfectly fine.

[@djmiansf]

Fixed the problem with reaper. Sent the UAD audio to the software called reaper and from reaper I opened a plugin that comes with a software called reastream, and in OBS go under filters and add reastream as a filter (vst2). And boom u got it

[@ashwink680]

I still have a latency issue .Tell me if you filling a fix would be kind of you

[@victorboucher9277]

@@djmiansf i got the thing but with games, interesting thing is it only happens with uplay games

[@mrcool1116]

I just switched my sound too realtek and it worked fine. I guess the last windows 10 update wasnt compatible with my other sound system on my computer.

[@abrahamling7292]

This issue is extremely annoying and stressful, especially when you are trying to focus on work while listening to calm music

[@imsjay]

Have u fix it ?

[@noname-jl8sp]

TRUE

[@Siberius-]

The fuzzy crackling went away before I did anything, which is poor timing. So I'll have to check back in hopefully some time, to see if this worked. I was about to roll back to the previous driver, but yea. As far as disabling all the audio enhancements... that really sucks the life out of the audio, in a way. I'll see if the other changes worked first. Edit: Okay that didn't work. I didn't change the audio enhancements though, and I didn't do the more in depth stuff towards the end of the video. But rolling back my audio driver to the previous one, fixed everything instantly. My past driver was also delaying audio most of the time after I press play on youtube. It would only play the sound half a second later. Now it's instantly. So that's very good.

[@RodneyFisk]

Fantastic! I thought I had a hardware problem, and changing to 16bit 48K fixed the whole thing! Sound quality seems the smallest bit better, too. Well done!

[@richardsorge-]

But.... NO. He said the exact opposite, to go 44 Khz FROM 48......

[@OldWorldRadioBoston]

NONE of this solves the popping at start and end of audio playback. I've been through 5 pages of google searches and have tried everything. Someone help me before I throw my 4 thousand dollar build out the window!

[@strigavampire61]

This is pissing me off so fucking much

[@moeuwuwu9838]

hmm im having the same issue aswell its like it stutters and does robotic corrupted noise is it just me!?

[@lukiii_e]

Same problem here - I have a EVGA RTX 3080 XC3 Ultra and I have sound stuttering etc. - anyone have a fix??? Thx

[@Zxchz]

@@moeuwuwu9838 omfg same and im so sick of it i would smash my computer to bits if it wasnt my life savings

[@SupriyaMusic]

Me too😩

[@clapper112]

thanks i can still hear the popping and crackling and now can hear my game audio

[@gerardosagaon]

I came with a awful crackling problem and leave with clean sound....you have my like good man!

[@dylanbessette7101]

Ahhh THANK YOU! I've been having crackling and popping issues with Windows 10 while using Ableton Live 10 for months. It was driving me crazy. I tried 2 different audio interfaces and many other things with no luck. While watching this video I disabled windows 10 audio enhancements and immediately ALL of the crackling and popping stopped. Life saver.

[@nagalandtv1589]

Lol yeah.. Same here ableton 10 problem..

[@ryanpound5283]

Following this exactly increased crackling then made all playback devices crash and not work, I now have to reinstall each one individually. Thanks a bunch!

[@darkmistico]

your welcome come back soon

[@tomdavies6256]

I played about with the suggestions you gave and discovered that (for me) it was the "allow applications to take exclusive control of this device" which solved the problem. I guess they've fixed a few of the other issues since this video was made, the windows enhancements actually made the sound quality much better for me. Thanks for the help!

[@WiseOldDudee]

allow applications to take exclusive control of this device you where getting popping/crackling with this activated?

[@tomdavies6256]

@@WiseOldDudee Yes, with it activated if I remember rightly, de-activating it solved the popping and crackling problem.

[@miguelfamily8991]

Great job. It fixed my problem. I have a older motherboard with a old quad core. I had no problems on Win 7. Win 10 lots of sound pops. I am using a older AMD video card with the sound going through HDMI. I tried several drivers and many other things. I had changed several sound settings several times. I still had pops. Changing from balanced power to high performance fixed my problem.

[@drapp1680]

Thanks Brian, I can't believe i overlooked some of the settings. I am also having similar issues on Win10.

[@Britec09]

Yeah it does your head in

[@DanielNester]

Lots of these options were grayed out for me on my new HP compact PC, but I just switched to the heaphone jack out to the stereo and that solved the issues for me.

[@salilgupta4377]

tysm bro, i bought a new headphone (redgear cloak) from amazon but when i was setting it up i thought that increasing the sampe rate would produce better audio so i set it at highest and felt that the audio was crackling and breaking when playing games. and i restored the sampling rate to default and it fixed thank you

[@xXxoFreeman]

Lowering the quality to CD helped me get rid of this pesky crackling. Thanks.

[@hom3fix3r]

OMG, you saved me! I just upgraded to Windows 10 and having this weird noise issue. Your first 2 steps already solved my issues! Thanks so much

[@greatvedas]

You are a legend. This solved my problem and saved my speakers. Btw, I have only disabled those settings, and didnt update any drivers yet. so far so good. Configuration : windows 10, Dell laptop. Problem : A pop sound is produced from speakers every time I resume a youtube video,, even after a few seconds pause. This is annoying, as such static pops/cracks can damage speakers.

[@rexemrichbeatz6560]

I just got my speakers back from repairs because of this problem , I've tried everything it doesn't go away

[@greatvedas]

@@rexemrichbeatz6560 I missed to reply back on this post. The problem came back again after a restart of my pc, which i rarely do.. :( Windows 10 is bad for speakers. Microsoft should take this issue seriously.

[@rexemrichbeatz6560]

I tried something else, I went to Realtek website and downloaded Realtek High Definition R2.82 driver from 2017... I installed it and it seems to have solved my problem.... I also switched off Windows Automatic Updates since they deleted my newly installed driver and installed their previous one🤦🏾‍♂️

[@greatvedas]

@@rexemrichbeatz6560 Mate! that's very logical solution. Believe it or not, I was thinking on the same lines, but haven't done anything yet. Happy for you Rex.

[@olf777f]

Brilliant, spent ages trying to fix the sound in Ableton live and it was windows 10 all along thank you for this video

[@CidiousX]

Yep welcome to Windows UPDATE MADNESS

[@jeremiah._.hamman9255]

My audio interface defaulted to 2 channel, 24 bit, 48000 hz. It is designed to be able to run up to 192Khz. I have been having the crackling and popping for months now at it sucks because I record for local bands. Turns out just switching it to 16 bit 48Khz fixed all the problems. Thanks man I wish I would have thought to look this up months ago.

[@lunathemoon64]

The first step seemed to do it for me. I was almost ready to purchase new speakers, you just saved me some money!

[@TheMiejoe]

Thanks, this worked for me! I upgraded to Windows 10 from 8.1 and it made my audio terrible, but now it's back to normal!

[@Ograws]

I remember I had this problem after getting my latest laptop. Good video I'm sure it'll help others in the the future

[@Britec09]

Thanks

[@Dressed2kill]

Im having the same issue with a new model laptop i just purchased. Were you able to fix thiS?

[@RazzleJazzle420]

unticking "allow apps to take exclusive control" seems to have worked for me. weird that would fix it, but it did. Thank you!

[@loganstephens630]

Wow, this was super helpful! Especially since I know literally nothing about computers, lol. Within ten minutes of noticing that I had this problem, I was able to watch and easily understand this video to get it to stop! :)

[@LaVidaLocaHomie]

Thanks so much Brian !! This issue was driving me nuts. Had to reboot every couple of days to get rid of the popping. Changing to 16 bits worked like magic. Instantly no more popping. Did not have to reboot at all.

[@adriancrossley9466]

Thank you so much This really did the trick Your guidance fixed the noise problem I’ve had with my audio interface for the last year A very clear, logical and east to follow tutorial Many thanks

[@dovenol]

In my case, installing an older Realtek LAN driver (version 10.28.615.2018) did it. Longer version: I'm on Windows 10 and using AMD's HDMI audio driver. I have the Realtek audio chip disabled in the BIOS. LatencyMon pointed the network driver as the source of the problem. Tried changing the power settings (both OS's and LAN driver), as well as a few other things. To no avail. Removing the current Realtek LAN driver and installing the previous version solved the constant audio problems.

[@zephyrsunriseprods.covers7929]

When you would watch a YT video would it sound distorted and stutter? Or even on Groove or Media player? I'm having this exact problem, and it's going through to my HDMI as well. I'm trying to record music and can't do a thing. Idk how to fix this.

[@ozzygg]

Thankyou so much! I thought my headset was broken, i was so frustrated. You're a legend mate!

[@sean_wave]

just bought a new laptop and that crackling was driving me nuts. switched to high performance and the crackles are now gone. thank you so much!

[@KevinbelUAPBelgium]

My sound is crackling when im on youtube and surfing when the pages charging

[@-kass3356]

I've got the same problem,I watched twitch last night and the sound just cracked more when I try opening other pages.

[@MrEOM41]

Same for me

[@uwuklaudiauwu8641]

same yet @Britec09 WONT EVEN FUCKING CARE TO RESPOND RIGHT

[@jwdsmth]

try another headphone, if the sound still crackling, uninstall the audio driver and install the new one

[@mrdoctor0811]

My voice cracks only when i play games

[@OwenPrescott]

After checking several tutorials I worked out my problem (could hear PC processing BG noises). Basically I have alway kept my system volume around 10% on average. Instead I increased the volume of the system to 75% and decreased the volume on my speaker to balance it out. This fixed the sounds and now the crackling is totally gone, I guess if you always have your system volume really low, try this.

[@biowarfarebunnydark5526]

My audio is so sharp and beautiful now that my ears are bleeding. Thanks for the help.

[@Bmanhaas]

Yours is the most informative channel among an 10000’s of tech channels. A big thank you.

[@maryannmondelo2767]

omg thank you so much for this, i was so worried just a while ago what went wrong with my laptop or my earphone

[@Dakhaos-ou812]

2:50...in my case I had nvidea and realtek running at the same time...disabling Nvidea made an huge difference. You may also have windows of mircosoft audiodrivers...where your motherboard originally had realtek drivers, remove those windowsdrivers..install realtek again. with realtek you get the realtek soundmanager by clicking on the red icon under the arrow in your taskbar. * make sure you check the drivers after updating windows, or your graphic card, because microsoft and Nvidea are very eager to force their drivers in your system.

[@hammies.]

Wooooow. Changing it to 16 bit seems to have solved my problem. Thank you so much for this. I was going fucking insane with that darn clicking noise. I thought I had a faulty motherboard since that's where my audio comes from. lifesaver edit: nevermind. it had returned :/ it seems to be better when i restart my computer but comes back after a while

[@idigmusictoo1746]

Anyone playing their audio through an audio interface that's experiencing crackling , try plug the audio interface into a different USB port , this literally fixed all my issues and I had tried absolutely everything else.

[@Raflm]

This happened to me all the time and I just kept ignoring it, thanks!

[@theresonvijayakumar2898]

Thank you so much for this video, you are the only video that I've found that has a genuine fix for this problem and please don't ever take this video down.

[@adrianmutya6653]

You never fail us , our company is doing migration for windows 10 , Thanks for this education video, More more more Windows 10 , More power to your channel your really the bestest...💯💯💯

[@Britec09]

You're welcome Adrian, glad i could help.

[@donaldmartin2640]

Nailed it. Changed to "Old School" and boom. Thanks, been working on this issue for a while.

[@GeoSam]

Thanks Brian. The audio issues we talked about, over on discord. Were due to my OBS setting. Adding the Noise Gate Filter, (as per your suggestion) to the microphone, cleared things up. I also installed and ran Latencymon. Turns out, all is fine (fingers crossed) . We'll see what happens with the Windows 1903 update.

[@Britec09]

Glad that worked out OK for you

[@nigelphillips7454]

@@Britec09 sorry for irrelevant messag i sent you yesterday i needed to ask you some questions to help me with tutorial one is does this work any amount of ram i upgrade to windows 10 with a 3gb ram laptop

[@nigelphillips7454]

​@@Britec09 i know its sounds silly i was a bit shy to talk in your discord so if i get updated drivers it will stop audio recording pops and crackels

[@ElLirikario]

When I try to record a vocal (verse) over an instrumental on Adobe audition,the playback is full of crackiling noice and if I change the 44100Hz (24bit) to (16bit) 44100 I can’t hear my instrumental anymore,I can only record what’s the problem? Thank you 🙏

[@abhroy]

Thanks Brian . Great post . Never faced this trouble though I have . But one never knows when 10 gives you 10 new problems -- typical 10 style :D

[@Britec09]

I have had nothing but trouble with windows 10 and audio.

[@moviesbitzz]

Same here dude 😂

[@johnpincaro2377]

Thank you so much for this help video. I was having a feedback sound problem. What worked in one of your advise was to update the device driver.

[@kenosentity6455]

0:17 thought that crackling sound was my PC lol

[@autobit]

I solved my problem of mouse and audio lagging, simply by formatting again! The first operation I did when opened for the first time the desktop, was to perform the installation of the chipset drivers, namely, the 'amd_chipset_drivers_am4_tr4'. I never turned on the internet until I finished this installation! Don't let other processes install chipset drivers instead of the originals! I installed everything else normally after that. I found that, in my case, the problem lay in the conflict with the chipset drivers. My pc: MSI X570-A PRO Rysen 7 3700x GTX1070

[@Jake-um4gg]

AUTOBiT hiw do you install them without network? I used DDU and booted into safe without network and it wouldn’t let me boot the AMD driver exe. i done it in safe with networking in the end but my latency is still very badly in the red and i’m still getting PC stutters. This started happening when i replaced my mobo b450 tomahawk max and my cpu 3700x. I’ve also tried going on the MSI website and doing their driver install that automatically uninstalls and then restarts pc and installs directly from them. This also didn’t make a difference

[@alanrowland6971]

Thanks for this, I’ve been having sound issues for nearly a week which is a pain when mixing in ableton live daw but this video has cured my pc thank you so much 😀👍😎

[@CluckYou21]

You have a focusrite audio interface?

[@seanodonnell1271]

Omg im in the same situation i hope it works

[@CluckYou21]

@@seanodonnell1271 Is your graphics card on PCIE 4.0?

[@seanodonnell1271]

@@CluckYou21 not sure im on laptop

[@darknightmike10yearsago]

@@CluckYou21 I have a Focusrite audio interface and this crackling occurs occasionally.

[@AZ09g2]

Great video ! Solved my issue of sound crackling in my headset while getting multiple sound sources (Games + Videos+ Discord) ! I thought my new headset had a diffect and was about to return it but thanks to you I won't have to. THANKS !

[@jvck-bwfc]

I’ve only managed to have one problem with this, when you use the “advanced power settings” and you put it for high performance, My computer has no option to choose it and only shows the stuff above it and because of this, I still appear to have little static pops during my time. How do I fix this?

[@antonystringfellow5152]

You might find that the option is in a different place... mine was. Even the first sound popup menu on my laptop is not the same as the one shown here... there is no "sounds" option. I won't tell you how to find it as it makes no difference anyway. Best advice I can give you... switch to Linux. Windows 10 is a nightmare.

[@pepe7drum]

i use an audio interface and i recently updated my BIOS and the popping noises, what would you recommend me to try? is the same as you did in the video?

[@DarkTider]

Thanks for the tips. However, regarding 7:14 - I get no option for enabling high performance, with balanced as the only possible option, so that kinda becomes a roadblock :S (EDIT: Was since able to fix it by creating a new power plan and setting it as high performance) Latencymon gave me a big red message though, referring to clicking and popping, smiliar to the message you received in the video. So something seems wrong :)

[@udosmidt4133]

Thanks, Brian, for all the tipps. I still have issues recording with Windows 10, stuttering, stumbling. Thanks, have a good day.

[@williamlinington9166]

I am glad you showed folks that programme. Better latent than never! Good and informative video.

[@Britec09]

Thanks William

[@lukesellers2146]

Omg I've been struggling with this for ages and thought my PC might just be dying of old age, you fixed it within the first two steps. Appreciate it

[@TommyDavidVerbal]

Which ones

[@1160wILlArD]

So awesome! Thank you for this huge effort. Crystal clear, with no glitches.

[@bullwinklemoose8291]

Thanks so much for this video. I'm holding my breath but so far so good...no audio glitching. Was driving me nuts. Thanks again.

[@BrockMak]

1:28 I MISS THIS! How do I get the older version of Realtek manager with Pitch Shift and Environment?

[@ronjones6190]

Thanks very much. I put up with this problem for a long time without being able to find a solution. What a relief! I could not have possibly solved this without your help.

[@FriedAudio]

Easy to follow and super-informative as usual Brian. Thank you very much! 👍

[@Lukeh1952]

Awesome - thanks it was the enhancement settings (did all of your first half of the video). HP pages are hopeless!

[@sleepyrobstetson4757]

Worked only for a little while. Back to popping/crackling still.

[@alyslands5393]

Same...

[@D4N7H3M4N-d9q]

Ignore the negativity. It'll be okay. Stay strong. Never give up. 😁❤️

[@TommyDavidVerbal]

I just need my audio fixed and I'm good lol

[@vergil5927]

when i right click on the sound icon it doesnt show me the "sounds" option how do i fix this?

[@kushagrayadav8481]

Right click on sound icon click on "open sound settings" a popup will appear on the right side under 'related setting' click on "sound control panel" and here you go.

[@vergil5927]

Kushagra Yadav im reading this soo late yoo thanks alot bro

[@LandGod9440]

For me the allow applications to take exclusive control was what helped me fix it. Tysm

[@Nobahdee]

I got this issue along side the newest update for windows 10.

[@official.millionaire.secrets]

OMG thank you so much, you saved my life. I just ordered a computer (windows 11) and all of the other apps audio have been glitching. This video was the first to fix it. you earned a sub

[@TommyDavidVerbal]

What exactly fixed it? He named several things. Thanks 4 your help. I can't seem to fix it

[@official.millionaire.secrets]

@@TommyDavidVerbal you just update the drivers

[@NooblyGamer]

YES THANK YOU SO MUCH I WAS GETTING SO PISSED

[@BabyAquaPanda]

Thank you so much! Latencymon said to update my bios after updating I'm no longer having issues with crackling.

[@thesamedufus2012]

Getting random DRUM BEAT sounding sounds coming from my speakers.

[@alkhalilibrahim1155]

same as me

[@eskapacinok1014]

Mine too

[@lemurienconstricteur1745]

bro yo shit haunted

[@magnet2themusic]

I think y'all are stuck in Jumanji

[@es1bl]

Ya I feel creepy with it Idn why 😂

[@independentvoice6686]

Thanks, it worked for my Samsung 700G7A gaming laptop. The power management changed to performance all time and the audio quality settings changed to cd quality fixed all the audio popping and crackling noise. I ran the latency app and it shows everything is ok.

[@gabreilguerrero1773]

I dont have the option of disable all sound effects why is that?

[@Siberius-]

It's within another tab now.

[@roathripper]

the latest audio drivers from my mboard manufacturer sorted me out, thanks man!

[@bjdavis51]

Another informative video!! Thanks, Brian -- you're the best!

[@Britec09]

Thanks

[@Kevinrichardsonministries]

Perfect Timing... as I'm having crackling & popping when I play a YT Vid while recording/making a new video about the content in played video. It's been driving me crazy !! The webcam audio "of me" is fine, but the video sound being played while making a new video always turned out poor quality. It's very confusing as the new video used the same webcam mic. Thumbs Up!!

[@Britec09]

Thanks Kev

[@FullMetalJack666]

yo so recently i noticed when ever im listening to music or i lower the volume it kinda pops and low static sound. it also happens when i click off the video so idk what it could be

[@esviar347]

yo same! I don't really know what to do with it it doesn't seem to fix. :/

[@dookasso5137]

@@esviar347 you fixed already or not >?

[@esviar347]

Doo Kasso yeah i went to control panel: sound: recording, chose my mic: advanced: I put the Hz and quality all the way down. It stops the noise. I don’t remember exactly cuz it was a long time ago but I hope this helps

[@dookasso5137]

@@esviar347 didnt help :(

[@esviar347]

Doo Kasso oof

[@mpkio]

I had been experiencing this problem, mostly after I updated to Win10 2004 Version. Turns out I needed to update my audio driver as a new update was released for Win10 2004. Thanks for all the help!!! :D

[@moeloop]

It doesn't help tho The popping noise is still there.

[@afnan9940]

what did you do then?

[@mechamedeamigo3984]

@@afnan9940 cry

[@ChongPangBoom]

Yep, this video is not a fix, This is just normal things to click around, might help one or few, but now the massed that have real problems.

[@Kelvinllovejr]

Dude i have bluetooth headphones and couldnt figure out what the problem was. ive been plagued with pausing and cracking for over a week now. I tried the exclusive mode you were talking about and it worked! i listened to an entire song and a few minutes of the program i was watching and its solved! Thanks so much man

[@Kelvinllovejr]

Nevermind it started again. Looks like it will never be fixed

[@Kelvinllovejr]

ok maybe its the program im watching. idk. It didnt seem to be a problem with music im listening to

[@jamesrandy8298]

non of it work i still hear Crackling effect on my win 10 pro /asrock x370 taichi

[@RadialTemporal]

did you ever fix the problem? i just upgraded to ryzen 3700x on this board and audio is crackling.

I don't think its a hardware issue. My mobo is Gigabyte Sniper B7, it was working fine last year, just after a recent Windows update, this shit started. I've tried almost all the solutions I found on the web, none worked. Still searching though.

[@SethKingFilms]

Mustafa Bepari Same man, just updated it a couple days ago and it started for me too!

@@SethKingFilms I went to my motherboard manufacturer's website and downloaded the latest driver, and installed it. So far I haven't faced any issues, but very small crackles did occur a few times. Hope that helps.

[@SethKingFilms]

Mustafa Bepari I went to my sound controls and changed the quality to CD quality and it worked actually.

[@bknight045]

my speakers are now working fine. you got my subscription. Thanks

[@syntheovaldy5173]

I dont have the enhancements tab, please help

[@Siberius-]

It's within another tab now.

[@dylanhayles6163]

@@Siberius- what tab is it in?

[@Siberius-]

@@dylanhayles6163 - Forgot. It's one of the ones already right there though.

[@LowEndMarauder]

Sound - Device Properties - Additional Device Properties at the bottom there under Related Settings

[@monroe444444]

@@LowEndMarauder Thank you but I don't see Additional Device Properties anywhere.

[@DigitalRealist]

After all watching all the westerner's videos, It was a UK bruv that solved my problems. Where would America be without you. Cheers

[@Steely_Bo]

HUGE THANKS!!! That last option done it. I couldn´t find it anywhere else only in your video. Happy :)

[@oioi_its_westy7695]

fancy making a video , speaking on a subject that everyone has a crackling sound lol so people with said crackling sound cant hear you

[@andreasg7834]

I think that was the solution for the problem, which is annoying me since a few years. And I thought, it has something to do with RAM or some processes like updates in the background. Thank you! 👍

[@kiemugen9830]

but I dont have the "enhancements" tab is my speaker's properties

[@esviar347]

same what should we do?

[@grifflax]

Thank you for the fix! So many temporary fixes and think all these steps finally solved it.

[@Chris-pv6zw]

My solution ended up being to unplug my mousepad

[@Glorious_Yell0w]

LoL i first read your comment as, u buttplugged your mousepad.

[@cartoonkids5356]

Chris my solution was to desactivate microphone

[@Nick6Michael]

OMG I did the first step and it worked like magic, unbelievable, I was about to return my laptop but realize it was a software problem, the issue would also appear during my headphone use and I knew it was probably solvable thanks to you.

[@HalkerVeil]

Too much audio popping I can't understand a word.

[@adam-729]

subtitles

[@williamlinington9166]

My problem with the crackling and out-of-phase audio on a Soundblaster sb1570. All other audio devices are fine. Using windows 10 64bit build 1903.

[@leonarddarker2798]

Thank you. Finally no more crackling. LatencyMon was a big help.

[@antonystringfellow5152]

Firstly, failed at the first step - my Windows 10 does not show the same menu popup as yours. The option "sounds" is not there. However, I managed to access the sound control panel via another route. Secondly, I am using a generic sound driver rather than the correct one, Realtek, as the Realtek driver is terrible. It has a much worse problem which is a delay whenever restarting a video. That means that whenever you pause a video, you have to go back before restarting or you will miss the first couple of seconds audio. The Realtek drivers have had this problem for several years but the company has shown no interest in rectifying it. Tried everything else here but the problem persists. This seems to be common problem with, and unique to, Windows 10. Having experienced numerous problems with Windows 10 over the past 2 years, I'm seriously considering ditching it for one of the Linux platforms. I'm now at the point where I think the advantages will far outweight the disadvantages. Thanks anyway!

[@0perativeX]

Thanks dude, unchecking Exclusive Mode finally stopped the Windows 10 Netflix app from dropping audio and popping.

[@spilledmilk9000]

fingers crossed this has resolved my issues. Thank God for your videos

[@MarlonsMusicDump]

I watched videos and decided to just shut down and turn on my computer. It actually fixed the problem! Hope this comment can at least help someone out.

[@Mooshnick]

Brian from the BK, by George---I believe you have solved a problem that's been haunting me for months!! ---Ya just made an instant subscriber out of me. Now if I could just fix the loud fan issue that's annoyingly buzzing---I can hear it more than often. Cheers new buddy!