Need help fixing audio delay issue

[thecoreymarks]

i have an HP pavilion gaming laptop 15 inch from 2020 that was on windows 10 for most of its life until october when i used the free upgrade, once i installed windows 11 i noticed that audio from any source whether it be from browsers games videos and even system sounds all had the same issue, theres about a 1-3 second delay, im not talking about a desync between audio and video but theres muted audio for around a second or so and then it will play normally. this is extreamly annoying when im scrolling through youtube and go through videos and or when im listening to music, it only happens when there is atleast a 15 second pause of zero audio then this annoying thing happens when you go to play something where it then is muted for around a second.

heres all the steps i have tried
restart the pc
update the pc
check drivers

delete and reinstall drivers
use microsoft drivers instead of realtek(audio would then not work when using headphones but worked fine through speakers)

updated both amd and nvidia drivers

disabled gpu audio drivers
checked different headphones
used headphones on different devices to see if theres a problem there.

these all did not fix the problem

heres the ways im not willing to try
fresh install of windows (i dont feel like seperating all the stuff from my boot drive so it wont be deleted and dont feel like buying another drive to back up everything i care about)

Im very sure its not a virus i dont download sketchy shit and microsoft defender is pretty good and i run malwarebytes a couple times a month
i have no clue what to try next so please help

[asdasdasdasdasdasd]

It might be a problem of the Realtek drivers going into a "power saving" mode when inactive.

 

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Unanswered-Topics-Notebook/How-to-permanently-disable-audio-power-saving-mode/td-p/7977841

https://community.intel.com/t5/Graphics/Realtek-HD-Audio-driver-suppresses-first-second-of-audio-after/m-p/1650752

 

I wouldn't know how to fix it, but this might be the issue. 

[thecoreymarks]

SOLVED SO FAR, a little embarrassing to admit cause i swear i have tried before but it didn't work, BUT ROLLING BACK TO THE PREVIOUS DRIVER HAS SEEMED TO WORK, only did it about an hour ago but seems to be working fine now, as for if i will have to roll back every windows update or restart i don't know yet but honestly ill do it just to have normal audio for once