Crackling Sound ingame - Possible solution

[capt_frank]

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....