audio is like crackling like laggy all of a sudden in browsers, spotify and video editing software.

TITANGAMER46 · April 22

Everywhere else it's fine. everything is up to date, tried uninstalling drivers, made sure nothing was being throttled or anything. it just started out nowhere and wont stop

BillBill · April 22

https://www.makeuseof.com/windows-10-fix-audio-crackling/ Here is a good list of trouble shooting steps to take.

rippy4500 · April 23

What are you using for sound? USB? Onboard audio? Bluetooth?
If USB, rollback driver to the included one cause the windows UAC2 driver is already bit perfect capable.
If bluetooth, install drivers for your bluetooth/wifi nic.
If onboard, install drivers for the audio nic, usually realtek, and do not install the realtek control panel.

In all cases disable sound enhancements in the sound control panel for your device and set sample rate to 48KHz and the highest bit depth available. And do not use any third party sound control panels, disable those.

Audio crackling and lagging is caused by data transmission or clock signaling issues usually, if you messed with anything related to that then it may be the cause of the problem. Also use latencymon to see if there is any process causing massive DPC latency which can cause audio problems.