Major audio interruptions—different problems occurring
Major audio interruptions—different problems occurring
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Recently, I encountered a significant issue with my PC. Frequently, audio dropped unexpectedly, and the system would crash or restart. LatencyMon and dpclat showed large red values indicating the problem, but in dpclat, these warnings appeared while latencyMon didn’t. In dpclat, I received messages like “Some device drivers on this machine behave badly and will likely cause drop-outs in real-time audio and/or video streams.” To isolate the faulty driver, I used Device Manager to enable or disable devices one by one. I tested network and wireless adapters, modems, internal sound cards, USB controllers, etc.
I also installed the latest AMD chipset drivers, GPU drivers, and RME (audio) drivers. My PC seems optimized for audio tasks. In the Event Viewer and Reliability Monitor, I observed errors such as:
- LiveKernelEvent Code: 141
- Parameter 1: ffffcf86d6fee010
- Parameter 2: fffff805774bc188
- Parameter 3: 0
- Parameter 4: 29c4 OS version: 10_0_19044 Service Pack: 0_0
- Product: 256_1 OS Version: 10.0.19044.2.0.0.256.48
- Locale ID: 1033
The problem event name was: LiveKernelEvent Code: 117, and the faulting application was Cubase10.5.exe (version 10.5.30.365). The error message stated that the application must close, with an error code of 7.
I also checked for interrupts and process latencies. The highest measured latency to process was 107.30 µs, and the highest DPC latency was 150.136567 µs.
Other findings included:
- Hard page faults were detected in several processes, with explorer.exe having the most.
- CPU data showed various cycle times, with some exceeding 1000 µs.
- Interrupt counts varied across cores, with a few reaching zero or very low values.
In summary, your system appears capable of handling real-time audio without interruptions. The reported issues seem to stem from driver conflicts or resource contention.
Please let me know what you think about these observations. Thank you in advance.
I relied on an RME UFX for years and occasionally faced issues with certain driver versions. Upgrading to previous releases usually fixed the problem. I recall the problematic driver installed fine but blocked access to totalmix or the fireface settings in Windows. Do you have the totalmix application?