Crackling Sound ingame - Possible solution
 

I may have solved my crackling sounds ingame (I have a Creative SB X-F1 soundcard). I was reading another forum (Warcraft something I think) and someone mention PCI latency. Aha I thought, I have a PCI latency tool on my everyday computer. Checked to make sure, yepper there it was, and off to the gaming rig it went. Looks like I downloaded this tool from guru3d back in 2005. I thinks there's an update but I used the one I had.

So anyway, I changed my creative PCI latency on my gaming rig from 64 to 32. Opened SHIV and no crackling. My hardware setting is also set at 3/4 and my sample rate set at 1/2.

Maybe this is a solution....:D

I would like to try this solution for my problem but How do you change the PCI Latency please ?:) In the bios ?

Here's what looks like the most current PCI Latency tool ay guru3d:

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

It's pretty self explanatory. I also dropped my sound card latency from 32 to 16 as a slight bit a crackle returned at 32.

Last I checked, I was crackle free at 16.

Anything beats the static!

Let us know if it works for you...