AM5 sound crackles in some places

[inner dragon]

Sometimes when playing some games the sound starts crackling in an annoying way but usually it was fixed with reloading sound output by any means(Disconnect physically or just ask windows to use one instead of default for a little while) however after i started using some Android Emulators their sound crackling is almost impossible to get rid of by doing this so I am curious if there is a proper way to fix this annoying issue or will i have to constantly keep rebooting pc and having no sound on if using emulators?

Motherboard - MSI B650 TOMAHAWK
CPU - Ryzen 7 7700
GPU - RTX 3060
RAM - G SKILLZ TRIDENT Z 32gb 6400mhz cl30

[winter sail]

https://youtu.be/PaYPaqEB1hU?si=zeZFKRraXWHMV6Lh

Not sure if you have seen this video, but he briefly mentions common troubleshooting steps to try first, and then gets to the solution that helped him.

[inner dragon]

I will look into that when i'll get free time to actually tinker around with my pc slightly because i am sure i got like... 10 different audio devices for whatever reason xd

[winter sail]

Sounds about right, after everything that gets installed over time.

I know I manually have to disable certain sound output options in the output selection menu because I only ever use two, but windows seems to think having 5+ listed is a good idea by default.

[inner dragon]

Tbf i do have an old post here somewhere when it happened for the first time and back then i did not have a lot of stuff

It was fresh windows install

With only the realtek audio driver on it

[winter sail]

Maybe it is something related to conflicting drivers and disabling them solves the issue, but who knows with tech. It all sucks.

I’d be curious to hear what happens. I haven’t had this problem myself.

[inner dragon]

There is ONLY realtek driver

Nothing else

Maybe voicemeter now but not in the past

In even more past with intel system I also had razer drivers but for some reason i don't like them at all so i don't use those

They have terrible audio quality

[winter sail]

Oh, with Voicemeter I just hit the restart audio option from the Task Menu and everything restores itself.

[inner dragon]

I don't use it tho xd

[winter sail]

Just saying, I have seen an issue with that software.

Good luck once you get a chance to tinker.

[inner dragon]

I genuinely couldn't properly use it

So i gave up on it but i still have it

[inner dragon]

So me disable everything now time to see

Now lemme open as much apps that cause the issue as possible

[inner dragon]

For now didn't cause immediate problems, let's see in the future

However now emulators use audio that is turned off lol
Not a problem as their sound isn't needed anyways

[winter sail]

Yep, now is the dumb part of troubleshooting and seeing if the intermittent issue goes away or if you are just within the window where it would have worked anyway.

[winter sail]

Not sure how the emulator works, but you can’t change the audio source to one that you have turned on?

[inner dragon]

I also guessed that this much emulators are saying that 32 ram ain't enough so I already got 64gb kit ordered

I assumed maybe overloading and using page file too much could've broken it

[inner dragon]

Yeah I can, anyways having sound on all emulators is... Not needed and rather useless dueto these much instances heh

[winter sail]

Alright then, hope the overall issue stays resolved.

[inner dragon]

So do I

But only time will tell with this one

I do hate when it's hard to reproduce issue

Just to show you why i am thinking on ram xd

[winter sail]

Don’t think there has ever been a better example of a situation where getting more capacity is actually useful.

[inner dragon]

Where getting more than 32 is useful*

Because getting more than 8 is always good, more than 16 if you are doing anything else besides simple office tasks(Word, excel, some script once in a life time, browser)

[winter sail]

Fair enough.

[inner dragon]

Partially the reason why i chose 3060 over 4060 as my budget didn't allow to go higher tier but i needed lotta vram

Also most likely will have to do AI learning cuz i am really curious about some voice recognition and etc

Maybe voice mimic too would be amazing, imagine horror game which can use your friends voice and answer your questions with those?

[inner dragon]

Did not solve the issue. Still remains.

[winter sail]

Damn. When did all of these issues start?

Have you tried multiple different headsets or output devices to see if the issue is isolated to a single pair of headphones?

[inner dragon]

Since the beginning. This headset served me 3 systems

One from amd(current)
Two inte(i5 7400, b250 asus), (i5 13400, z790 asus)

Hasn't occurred on other system but had to have some fun on older one due to fun outputs in case and mobo and real one xd

Set in bios AC97 and in GUI of Realtek to HD as in any other configuration it did not work back then

[winter sail]

Maybe time to try uninstalling audio drivers.

I’d suggest uninstalling the audio driver, and doing a restart to let Windows auto install what it detects.

If that still happens then try installing the driver from the MB.

[inner dragon]

Did a lot : )

Including from Realtek website

[winter sail]

When was the last time you did a complete windows install and just start from scratch?

[inner dragon]

Probably 3 months ago

I sometimes do this and meanwhile save half the stuff onto hdd which I later on get back or install from

Some exe, utility apps, spacesniffer

BRO

AUTOCORRECT BE WILD XD

[winter sail]

Damn, wonder what people are talking about to have that even be an option.

Then it could just be a bad audio port on the MB, and nothing we do can fix it.

[inner dragon]

Well... Stuff like that I didn't really say xd

[inner dragon]

I have heard that this stuff happened with Am4 sometimes and now with am5 sometimes

[winter sail]

Maybe customer support has a solution for you, but sounds like we have tried everything.

[inner dragon]

Well... Considering how much possible solutions I found xd

And for now the best is to manually reset it by unplugging from mobo and getting it back after 10 sec

[winter sail]

Which isn’t much of a solution if it keeps breaking.

[inner dragon]

Temporary one in case of multiple emulators breaking it

Usually just reloading via apps is enough in other cas3s

Also. My motherboard got not working dimm A1 and B1

Sooo

It seems I got faulty one or improper cpu placement

Could've been the cause

[winter sail]

Potentially. RMA or maybe upgrade if it is time/in the budget.

[inner dragon]

Can't rma

Can't upgrade, it's b650, upgrade to what lol

Only sell as used xd

[inner dragon]

(reasons for can't rma - me Russian, support from Msi here sucks)

Tried to get laptop support - didn't do shit xd

Told me what I already knew and requested insane amount of money to fix my audio card

It coats 2$ to buy new one and another 10 to ask someone to solder it in xd

So yeah

Seems like live with it

And maybe upgrade at some point to some 800 or 900 for 10000 Ryzens heh

Or 9000, depends on their Ai results

[inner dragon]

Presumably

Turning off Audio enhancements fixed it

At least partially

[inner dragon]

Yeah, but I'm not speaking of idle usage

That was under my specific load that I need to do for job/freelance

If my pc was only for discord/browser then yeah, 16 would be enough

For games 32 Cuz i like some ram hungry games(Minecraft, satisfactory also be taking up to 11gb sometimes)

But for job I needed 64 which I've gotten

https://discord.com/channels/635751301480972298/1257279383337697281

Buuut

There is some fun : )

[fair badge]

your OS background takes up legions more then mine

[inner dragon]

Literally the task that I am doing by itself is taking 40gb bruh

Outside of OS consumption

Besides - my background overall is usually around 11gb including discord(takes about 1-2gb), browser(usually at 1-1.5gb),steam(why is it even taking this much, about another gb) and etc

And sometimes windows likes to report as if it uses ram when in reality it doesn't use some of it which is fun and weird

[fair badge]

Sounds like excess use of background resources mhm mhm

[inner dragon]

Oh nooo i don't care about every single byte being saved oh nooo

32gb being enough for almost everything even with bloat and not being enough for my jobs even if it's just purely 32gb that you give it because it just literally is not enough in this particular instance no matter how you optimize OS

Go on and use pure Linux or something at this point if you care that much about it being "excessive usage"

[fair badge]

Just to much bloat Duck

Let's not be slow to the curve, gotta curb those background processes

Don't worry, I'm here to help you get the best out of your system

I understand sometimes it can be an issue if the end user is slow, hence me speeding ya up 8)

[inner dragon]

No i don't need

I need them running as i am using them constantly

Yes it takes an AMAAAZING 5 more gb which i will free if needed

Why would you even bring this up here?

I sent a screenshot of what happens when i am running my task due to RAM limitation

Or you wanna say that "Nooo, it is windows being bloated which is why it takes 55gb to do this"

[fair badge]

Ah yes, I shall send a friend request & call you 8)

[inner dragon]

Or just send your own tiny 11 with personal miner?