crackle and pop

[THE_MASK]

I have never had the sound crackle and pop before i reformatted the computer .
Audigy 2 card
windows xp
I tried the newest drivers for audigy and the old drivers . I tried no accelleration in dx . I just cannot get rid of it . Thanks

[Letum]

try moveing your speakers (and speaker cables) away from magnetic interferance such as:
other cables (power cables, mouse and keybord cables)
Your moniter if its a Cathode Tube moniter (not LCD)
your PC

Also install the latest sound drivers for your sound card (Even if its a onbord sound chip)

[THE_MASK]

Thanks Letum, ill try that.

[Letum]

I get interferance from my mouse cable, a little from my moniter and lots from my hard drive.
Personaly I like it, once your used to it you can her your PC 'thinking'
I can even use it to detect the tiny drop in frame rate when my uboot is neer a single merchant :know:

I get a hellofa weird interferance sound when I click generate on SHIIIGen. Its like a slow, high pitched wistle that gets lower (like the sound a falling shell makes) and the the same sound 3 times but speeded up very fast.

[Kaptan Tommy]

I get "Crackle and Pop" when I use the outside view camera and the weather is bad with big waves, thunder and lightning. The farther away from the sub I get (and the wider the view), the more "crackle and pop" I get.

If the weather is fine, I have no noise at all. :roll:

[Letum]

I get "Crackle and Pop" when I use the outside view camera and the weather is bad with big waves, thunder and lightning. The farther away from the sub I get (and the wider the view), the more "crackle and pop" I get.

If the weather is fine, I have no noise at all. :roll:

Are you useing a sound mod, RuB or IuB?

[The Avon Lady]

Sober, are your BIOS and chipset drivers up to date?

[THE_MASK]

Thankyou Avon lady . I have updated the bios for my gigabyte 8trx330-l m/board .
I also auto updated the drivers for the audigy soundcard from creative website .
I have xp and it is also fully updated via microsucks updates . :cry:

[The Avon Lady]

1. Did you disable your motherboard's audio chipset?

2. Have you tried moving your Audigy to another free slot?

EDIT: Google it (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%2Baudigy+%2Bcrackling)!

[Jail]

I also have an Audigy 2 card and ive found out that i can't have master volume at 100% aprox 95% is ok , anything over makes distorted sounds.

P.S. It's good to be back at this great forum.

[The Avon Lady]

I also recall seeing on a UBI forum post something about some problem caused by having a too low mhz rate set for their audio card.

Not sure what the problem was and whether it was also an Audigy. Worth investigating maybe. :hmm:

[THE_MASK]

I have disabled my motherboard's audio chipset . I will look at the cards position in the tower . Maybe its too close to the TV card or something .

[Kaptan Tommy]

I get "Crackle and Pop" when I use the outside view camera and the weather is bad with big waves, thunder and lightning. The farther away from the sub I get (and the wider the view), the more "crackle and pop" I get.

If the weather is fine, I have no noise at all. :roll:

Are you useing a sound mod, RuB or IuB?


No, I'm currently using neither mod. But the 'problem' is so minor I don't even let it bother me. I just mentioned it because "Sober" brought it up. I'm pretty much in the "if it's not broke, don't fix it" mode right now. It's not a fun breaker...

[Average Joe]

I have disabled my motherboard's audio chipset . I will look at the cards position in the tower . Maybe its too close to the TV card or something .

You might want to check PCI latency settings for your sound-card. Here's a good tool to check timings:

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=951

The .exe comes with 2 files, install the 'LtcyCfg3-x86.msi' file, or the other install-file if you're running Win-XP 64-bit.

The tool is very easy to use. First see what your sound card device(s) latency values are, and save default info in a text file or something.

If the sound-card is working properly, you might want to try a latency setting of '032', and 'apply/save' settings. If this doesn't help, increase to 64, 128, 200, etc.

If changing latency settings does not help, simply restore your original sound-card values.

Here's a good article about latency, someone just posted it here a couple days ago, at:

http://www.geocities.com/phileosophos/tech/pcilatency.html

p.s. I had all sorts of 'pop/crackle' noise with built-in MB sound-chip. Getting an SB card solved that problem.

[Crop-Duster]

First try lowering the hardware acceleration setting for sound in control panel in Windows.

Reduce from full to one notch lower or set to basic acceleration

A guy at SimHQ had a similar problem with his Audigy 2

[The Avon Lady]

First try lowering the hardware acceleration setting for sound in control panel in Windows.
Already mentioned as being tried in the thread's 1st post.