Windows Audio Device Graph Isolation

[TheMarius97]

I noticed, that my memory usage was abnormally high, so I open taskmanager.

I've seen this process yesterday, using 5 gigs of ram. I terminated it, rebooted and it seemed fixed, the process not even showing up in the taskmanager.

 

The mem usage has been stable at this level for the past 40 minutes.

Uppon Terminating the process, audio playback stops (which would make sense, given the name).

 

Question is: What is this, and why is it using so much ram?

 

OS: Win 8.1 up to date

Soundcard: Realtek onboard - driver up to date

Malwarebytes hasn't found any maleware.

 

I have not installed any software recently (appart from steam game updates)

 

Any idea on how to permanently fix this? A restart will fix it temporarily.

 

Thanks in advance

[Tedster]

This page says what it is:

http://www.ehow.com/info_12214253_windows-audio-device-graph-isolation.html

 

It seems that it's just causing memory leaks somehow.

 

Can you 'repair' your Windows installation (using the repair tool or something - I don't know how it works in Windows 8)?

This would probably be the easiest way to fix the problem - apart from manually replacing the executable which I wouldn't deem safe unless you found an official download.

[TheMarius97]

This page says what it is:

http://www.ehow.com/info_12214253_windows-audio-device-graph-isolation.html

 

It seems that it's just causing memory leaks somehow.

 

Can you 'repair' your Windows installation (using the repair tool or something - I don't know how it works in Windows 8)?

This would probably be the easiest way to fix the problem - apart from manually replacing the executable which I wouldn't deem safe unless you found an official download.

I can figure it out how to do repair it.

I'll report back if it worked or not.

[Tedster]

I can figure it out how to do repair it.

I'll report back if it worked or not.

Great!

 

I'm pretty curious.

[Mojo-Jojo]

I noticed, that my memory usage was abnormally high, so I open taskmanager.

I've seen this process yesterday, using 5 gigs of ram. I terminated it, rebooted and it seemed fixed, the process not even showing up in the taskmanager.

 

The mem usage has been stable at this level for the past 40 minutes.

Uppon Terminating the process, audio playback stops (which would make sense, given the name).

 

Question is: What is this, and why is it using so much ram?

 

OS: Win 8.1 up to date

Soundcard: Realtek onboard - driver up to date

Malwarebytes hasn't found any maleware.

 

I have not installed any software recently (appart from steam game updates)

 

Any idea on how to permanently fix this? A restart will fix it temporarily.

 

Thanks in advance

Have you got any postprocessing effects enabled? E.g. Equalizer, virtual surround, etc. These effects affect the audio driver and windows audio services negatively.

I had an issue where it was using 100% on a core until I disabled any effects.

[TheMarius97]

Okay folks. I haven't repaired my windows yet.
 
But it seems it's related to Adobe Flash player.
 
I usually don't use flash, just the html5 players. But hence I've started watching shows online recently (the day the problem started) I use it.
 
It appears to me, that the amount of memory consumed only increases while flashplayer is running.
 
Waiting for an update from adobe then I think.
 
EDIT:

Have you got any postprocessing effects enabled? E.g. Equalizer, virtual surround, etc. These effects affect the audio driver and windows audio services negatively.
I had an issue where it was using 100% on a core until I disabled any effects.

I'm not using any effects. Only thing I could think of is the corsair headset utility. But that hasn't been running in a while