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The thread discusses issues with crackling sounds when playing audio and gaming simultaneously on Windows 7, often linked to onboard Realtek sound drivers. Several users share solutions, including updating drivers and adjusting power settings to high performance, though these fixes don't work for everyone. Overall, the sentiment indicates troubleshooting and mixed success in resolving audio crackling problems related to onboard sound hardware.
Witchsong

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I have this problem that the sounds start to occasionally "crackle". This "crackling" occurs almost every time I ALT-TAB while playing World of Warcraft and listening to Winamp at the same time.
 

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Ok, I solve my problem:
Go to Control panel - Power options - and instead Balanced check High performance.

And no crackling sound anymore ... that works for me.
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What sound card are you using and are you using the most up-to-date drivers?
 

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It's built-in on the motherboard, and is installed with the default Windows 7 (or Windows Vista?) driver that the OS installs itself.
 

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I had a very similar problem when I had build 6801. What i did to fix it was i went to the Realtek website and downloaded the most up-to-date sound driver for my device. From then on i had no problems with crackling or the sound not working at all.
 

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I've always had bad luck with onboard sound and trying to listen to multiple audio sources at once, (ie: Winamp and a Game) But as iroken22 said, getting the latest driver often times will fix the problem.
 

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Very well put. I spent a whole day just looking through and testing the computer to determine the issue. I finallly figured it out 17 hours later when I read a post online that someone had a similar problem in VISTA and that fixed it. So I gave it a whack and it worked.
 

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@iroken22: can you give me link to that site, or give me advice, how to solve that kind of a problem. I try to do everything, but no success. Only crackling sound in Windows 7 with Realtek HD drivers.
 

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I, too, am having a problem listening to multiple sound sources in win7. A single source often works fine, but then fails when another sound source activates.

I did not have any problems with this in Vista.
 

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Ok, I solve my problem:
Go to Control panel - Power options - and instead Balanced check High performance.

And no crackling sound anymore ... that works for me.
 

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kstarfire said:
I, too, am having a problem listening to multiple sound sources in win7. A single source often works fine, but then fails when another sound source activates.
Click to expand...

Same exact problem. Has persisted from onboard sound to Creative X-Fi, with absolutely no difference, with or without beta drivers.
 

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