Could very high latency be a consequence of the Spectre patch?

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halfbeing

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In the last few days I have noticed that I've been getting terrible audio latency on my desktop machine, which I have confirmed using Latencymon. Nothing has changed as far as my hardware and attached devices go. Could this be connected to the Spectre patch as implemented in Windows 10? My processor is an AMD FX-8350. I have asked a couple of other musicians who have Intel processors and they aren't getting this problem, which leaves the possibility that it may just be an AMD thing.
 
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The Meltdown/Spectre patches were said to hit Intel processors harder than AMD processors though on consumer chips it barely makes any measurable difference. My best guess is that you probably need to update your audio drivers since Windows updates can sometimes cause issues with device drivers.
 
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I hadn't thought about that possibility. The drivers for my audio interface haven't been updated for a long time and I doubt the manufacturer will want to do that because the device is a few years old and has been superseded by a revised model. But I will email their tech support anyway. Thanks for the suggestion!
 
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I've been getting high DPS latency issues for some weeks now. Tryed a lot of troubleshooting to isolate the problem without success. Gone from tryed different audio drivers up to 1-2 years old, aswell as GPU drivers, usb drivers, checking SSDs (unpluging them all and trying them all separately. Tryed another NIC, checked RAM, rolled BIOS to an older version, disconected all USB devices 1 by 1...

I'm just getting to the conclusion that its W10 issue (meltdown patch maybe). I've gone through 3 different fresh installs, the next thing I'll check is if the issue happens before fall creators as installing this one will most likely install meltdown patch.
 
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