Windows update causes clicks

[Gswitz]

I put a tray in and moved the amp to the bottom. 

Edited February 8 by Gswitz

[sjoens]

Fooled Us!

[Guest]

Ahh the wood box! 

[user6970180344145356]

I've
- disabled the onboard sound on my motherboard via BIOS,

-made sure my threads don't "park", (high perf mode)
- made sure my USB's don't go to sleep,
-have my media files on a separate fast SSD drive,
-made sure my startup menu was clean and prevented a lot of background apps from starting at startup
but none of that has stopped my fairly high performance windows 10 pc from clicking and popping while playing back audio where there aren't that many tracks playing or FX engaged.

The ONLY thing that stops it is forcing Cakewalk or Sonar to load with "Real-Time" app priority (which you can see in Task Manager). So, I know there is SOMETHING that seems to be competing for resources but I'm not sure what it is. Any clues or suggestions from other users who have encountered the same?

Also... LatencyMon says my system is fine and suitable for realtime audio playback.

  

Edited 18 hours ago by user6970180344145356

[57Gregy]

5 hours ago, user6970180344145356 said:

I've
- disabled the onboard sound on my motherboard via BIOS,

-made sure my threads don't "park", (high perf mode)
- made sure my USB's don't go to sleep,
-have my media files on a separate fast SSD drive,
-made sure my startup menu was clean and prevented a lot of background apps from starting at startup
but none of that has stopped my fairly high performance windows 10 pc from clicking and popping while playing back audio where there aren't that many tracks playing or FX engaged.

The ONLY thing that stops it is forcing Cakewalk or Sonar to load with "Real-Time" app priority (which you can see in Task Manager). So, I know there is SOMETHING that seems to be competing for resources but I'm not sure what it is. Any clues or suggestions from other users who have encountered the same?

Also... LatencyMon says my system is fine and suitable for realtime audio playback.

  

What ASIO audio interface are you using?

[user6970180344145356]

3 hours ago, 57Gregy said:

What ASIO audio interface are you using?

Focusrite Clarett+ 4Pre

I did note in LatencyMon that Windows Defender might be causing interrupts at times... going to play with disabling that... but not sure that's a great thing to leave off so if it's the problem, would probably make a bat script to turn it on/off and put it in with my other script that does high perf mode on/off.