I believe the issue is resolved now. I found some warnings (event id 157) in eventvwr relating to a disk being "surprise removed". So I unplugged 2 unused SATA drives and the audio glitches have not happened since. I have rebooted 10+ times to make sure and so far so good. I attach some...
I'm so confused now. I moved the pagefile to a less busy disk and rebooted - after which, audio was playing back perfectly. I performed 3 more reboots and tested audio each time, and each time audio played back perfectly. However, after the next reboot, the audio glitches had returned, exactly...
And more information that I should have provided previously: Playback via Cubase using ASIO is also very glitchy. Cubase uses a combination of synthesized sounds and playback of audio files stored on disk
As a further test, I loaded up Native Intstruments FM8 Synthesizer to eliminate any storage interactions during audio playback and I can confirm that the synthesized audio from FM8 was perfect: totally glitch free. Whereas playing an MP3 file via Windows Media Player still produced the audio...
Here is the "Stats" output from LatencyMon, measured while using the Steinberg UR44-C interface for audio playback:
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Hello. First post on here, so please be gentle.
Windows audio recently became unusable for me - across multiple interfaces/hardware, so it's unlikely to be a driver issue
I'm running Windows 11 Pro 24H2 Build 26100.2894. The issues PROBABLY started around the same time that 24H2 appeared as...