How to Fix Crackling Audio, Stuttering & Choppy Playback on Windows 10 – 2020 Tutorial [SOLVED]

Uninstalled Realtek drivers, instafix. Thanks!

6:30 Disable Windows Drivers auto update.

never would have figured it out it was zone alarm

I change "Realtek High Definition Audio" to " High Definition Audio Device" and it fix my problem

THANK YOU 😀 ! For me it was the Enhancement problem, i just disable it and my recordings are now clean !
love you !

My PC was dusty, so I cleaned it up and so far, it's been working like new. Thank you so much!

Thank you !!!!!!!!! IT WAS THE DRIVERS CAUSING BUFFERING

Watching this video while having a crackling audio.

Can someone plz help my screen on my laptop will stutter and my audio will crackle at the same time.
Plz help

my headset had bass boosted enhancements, so I disabled them as per your advice. Thanks a lot! I can finally play FNV without having to go insane anymore.

Very systematic approach. I appreciate this! Also, I looked at the logo with 3d glasses 🙂

It didn't fix but it's much better.

is this really all the ways? none work for me

Thank you Cristoph Waltz

what can I do to fix a stuttering issue with Beatsx bluetooth earbuds(earphones)? More specifically, I only get a clear sound when sitting right next to my pc tower. Any turn of my head or slight movement causes stuttering in the audio.

Zone Alarm!
I've been having this problem (pops and stutter, especially upon high-frequency network use) for 2 years now. I've tried so many things every now and then, all to no avail.
Now that I saw this video, I immediately said "Yes, damn, I bet it's ZA!".
That would totally make sense.
I hate to let go of my trusty firewall which I always used to block any unwanted network access, but I'll give it a try.
I guess I'll try Commodo again, though I was not happy the last time I tried it.
If anyone has a good suggestion for a secure firewall that makes it easy to configure a whitelist based modes as things demand access, please let me know

I tried keeping the volume at 80% max. So far so good, even with latest realtek driver. Thanks mate!

asmr

Recommend downloading "LatencyMon" because you need to find out what driver is causing this problem, then research how to fix it. https://www.resplendence.com/latencymon

for people who this didn't work for. the issue for me after spending bloody hours and hours on it turned out to be network latency issues causing the studdering. all i did was hard connect the modem to the computer to take it off wifi. i went back to wifi after i disconnected it and it seems to have fixed it weirdly. i also updated the network drivers after. Worth a try if you feel like youve exhausted every option like I did. All the best.

I have a question, normally my sound is fine but when I record on gamebar the audio sounds very bad and choppy but I hear everything fine while playing the game, how do I fix this? Would this tutorial work?

Thank you so muchan i was about to bash my pc in.

OMG this worked for me! The one of disabling the enhancements.
Thank you my friend and take your blessed like. I love you!
Worked in Toshiba Satellite C55T-C5300 with Windows 10 64 Bits .

i only have crackling in discord????? whats going on

I had to choose the high definition and it worked! (edit its a temporary fix and now i have to fix it again)

Thank you so much for this I upgraded to a kingston SSD today and had already spent hours researching before I figured out I had to re boot windows 10 onto the device with a usb and then I finally got it working and the sound was distorted. What ended up working on your video was going to " let me pick from a list of available drivers" and then clicking the high definition. Once I restarted my computer the sound was fixed!

Nothing worked

Hi, I have tried fixing in all the ways up to my knowledge, could you please give me tips to fixing the sound because there was a massive windows update and then after, the sound just stopped working

11:46 I removed Intel(R) Wireless-AC 9260 160Mhz from my network adapters as I am plugged in via ethernet and it fixed my issue right away! (been at this for about a week)

the default format option is grayed out. I can´t change it. Any idea why?

i set my windows volume to 75 and it has solved the problem.
Thanks!!

I had normal audio before. And then I decided to clean the dust from my computer. Now I have buzzing audio that happens consistently approximately every 4.25 seconds.

I have like a more irritating problem. My sound settings is fine. But the moment i start a video chat, or stream, or even render a video on adobe, it starts stuttering , which feels like it is frameskipping , and then the only solution i have is to restart windows audio in task manager (audio.srv). Have anyone got a solution ?

When I talk,my mic is still doing buzzing noises,I tried this and it didn't work please help