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I seem to have fixed it! Forcing PCIE x16 to Gen3 in the BIOS seems to have fixed it. It was happening pretty much constantly for me, and now no issues in Photoshop. I have no idea why that would affect things, consdering the audio interface was running through the chipset USB ports. And the problem cropped up out of nowhere despite running the same Gen4 config for almost 18 months with no issues.

Bump. I tried a full re-install of Creative Cloud, no luck. Wish I could figure out what changed to cause this problem to appear. Made sure I'm on the current BIOS, and also updated the AMD chipset drivers just for the hell of it. No dice.

The setup: Windows 10, up to date, as are all drivers 3700x, 3080, 64gb ram, Gen4 SSD for the OS One additional NVME, two SATA SSD, and two SATA HDDs Four monitors - 1440p 144hz primary, two 1440p 60hz secondary, with a third 1440p display mirroring one of them. Motu M2 for audio interface I usually have a YT video playing in the background while I'm editing photos, no problems for years on various installs and hardware combos. Two days ago, I've started getting distorted, robotic audio after zooming in Photoshop, opening new photos from Lightroom, or other tasks that cause a momtary spike of load. The spikes are not to 100% load - maybe 50% on two CPU cores. Occasionally the audio will just cut out completely while the video keeps playing. When the audio goes distorted it makes the video choppy as well. I might have narrowed it down to something with the Motu M2. After the robotic audio starts, changing the "Use lowest latency safety offsets" setting in the M2 control panel fixes the problem, but just momentarily. Zooming causes the problem no matter what the setting. No new driver was installed for the M2 in the past couple days, and this install of Windows is less than a month old. The problem is easy to replicate during any audio playback, browser or otherwise. No problem with using the speakers on my main monitor. I've tried reinstalling the M2, using a differnet USB port, driver rollback for the GPU, optional windows updates, everything except a fresh Windows install. Also tried turning Hardware Scheduling on, didn't help. Anyone have any ideas? Would love to get this back to how it used to work.

Hoping that Floatplane will get VODs sometime soon, really missing the pre-show as well.

They just talk about the Verge YT copyright strikes the whole time, OK one to miss out on.

But half the fun (all the fun?) of the CES WAN show is seeing who pops in, from other tech reviewers to the ocassional brand rep. Totally loving the tons of videos we're getting this year though!