seemingly random dpc latency in many modules

lilmike2

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Mar 12, 2016
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Hi,
I am having a really weird issue where my PC is running rather slow, and often gets crackles and pops in audio. This is bad, because my PC is a digital audio workstation, so I need it running at top performance. I've run latency mon, and found many different drivers over 1 MS (including usbport.sys, ntoskrnl, and more that I can't remember off the top of my head), and there's never any constant as to which pop up at the top of the list. I removed my wifi adapter at the recommendation of a website I read, and that made it alot better, but it's still not good at all, by any stretch of the imagination. I can post the output of latency mon later, but right now I don't have time to look on the pc itself.

Specs: Intel I7-2600 3.4 GHz (overclocked to 3.8 GHz), 24 GB ddr3 1600 MHz ram, samsung 500 GB ssd, seagate 500 GB and 1 TB regular Hdd (ssd is my OS drive), and intel dp67bg motherboard. It's interesting to note (though possibly not relevant) that speccy shows my ram as 797.8 MHz, when it's definitely not.

Anyway, was just posting to see if anyone had an idea as to where to look to troubleshoot this beast.

Thanks,
-Michael.
 

lilmike2

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Mar 12, 2016
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1,510



Hi,
I was using a Wi-Fi adapter, but removing in May the dpc better. I have an ATI Radeon video card, a sound blaster xfi xtreme audio with no drivers because they were reported to do ridiculous latency as well, and those are the only PCI card that I have. I have a USB gaming headset, standard USB keyboard, and a standard USB mouse plugged in as well. I will post the report later tonight, and try your suggestions.
Thanks,
Michael.
 


Can't see those images at work, and I don't know enough about what you are dealing with to trouble-shoot too much, you may want to check with the soundblaster people since they are specializing in audio./

 

lilmike2

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Mar 12, 2016
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The Sound Blaster is actually just an alternate sound card, because I'm blind, and use a screen reader, I don't want that coming through my main audio card for recording and output of my daW, because that would cause some bad side effects. So I put it through that card. Right now, though I can't because the drivers are not installed, and they were causing ridiculous latencies. It's really weird though, because when I run it for maybe a minute or two, it shows the USB port driver, and a couple others as the main culprits, but now that I ran it for 2 1/2 days, there are totally different drivers listed there. Also, on the text file, it shows the reported CPU speed at 1 MHz, which is definitely not correct.
Anyone else got any ideas?
Michael.