Teamspeak + games = crackling audio

Devrij · 12 Sep 2014 at 21:45

Anyone had this issue? Literally just started today and affects all games when team speak is running. Audio starts crackling and I even start getting graphics stutter.

Any ideas?

shankly1985 · 12 Sep 2014 at 22:17

Devrij said:
Anyone had this issue? Literally just started today and affects all games when team speak is running. Audio starts crackling and I even start getting graphics stutter.

Any ideas?

Sound like you having DPC issue. Install latencymon and see if you can find the issue.

Devrij · 12 Sep 2014 at 22:43

DPC issues? What's the solution?

shankly1985 · 12 Sep 2014 at 22:51

Devrij said:
DPC issues? What's the solution?

Could be from updating drivers, to removing hardware.

Devrij · 13 Sep 2014 at 07:53

Ah I see. I'll see what latencymon has to say and will report back for posterity.

Devrij · 13 Sep 2014 at 09:35

So it seems to be dsgkrnl.sys. Might have to start a thread in the windows forum to sort this out because I can't find anything on google with regards to fixing this particular issue.

shankly1985 · 13 Sep 2014 at 09:48

You sure it's not dxgkrnl.sys?

Devrij · 13 Sep 2014 at 10:46

Yep, that was a typo. It is indeed dxgkrnl.sys, and frankly I'm stumped.

shankly1985 · 13 Sep 2014 at 10:51

Tbh I wasn't expecting that driver.

Devrij · 13 Sep 2014 at 11:09

shankly1985 said:
Tbh I wasn't expecting that driver.

Nope, me neither. I was hoping it would be an audio driver or something. I can play world of tanks fine, but pretty much any other game redlines the latencymon readout. I wonder if it's related to the 290s I installed this week? Everything was fine until yesterday though. Screw it, I'm due for a system wipe (3 years!) so it's getting done.

shankly1985 · 13 Sep 2014 at 11:36

Devrij said:
Nope, me neither. I was hoping it would be an audio driver or something. I can play world of tanks fine, but pretty much any other game redlines the latencymon readout. I wonder if it's related to the 290s I installed this week? Everything was fine until yesterday though. Screw it, I'm due for a system wipe (3 years!) so it's getting done.

Yeah do full wipe and we go from there.

Devrij · 13 Sep 2014 at 16:32

Fresh install. Problems still exist! Agh!

shankly1985 · 13 Sep 2014 at 16:58

Devrij said:
Fresh install. Problems still exist! Agh!

Can you post some screenshots of latencymon?

Devrij · 13 Sep 2014 at 18:39

Yeah sure, but interestingly enough, removing one of my 290s seems to have resolved the issue. Just need to work out how I can have both cards in and get it working.

Perhaps the fact that 290s use the pci lanes for xfire instead of bridges is causing the latency issues?

Puppetmaster · 13 Sep 2014 at 18:40

Does it still happen if you disable crossfire but have both cards in the system?

What motherboard do you have and are you using onboard audio or a sound card?

Devrij · 13 Sep 2014 at 18:59

Puppetmaster said:
Does it still happen if you disable crossfire but have both cards in the system?

What motherboard do you have and are you using onboard audio or a sound card?

Nope, just in xfire. and it's onboard audio (can't fit my xonar DG because the cards cover the pci slot it needs).

Weirdly enough, it only occurs with vsync on. Seems to be a fairly common issue from my googling.

E: have started a thread in Graphics cards as it isn't directly pc gaming related