Win 7 crackling sound Realtek possible fix

[Junior2613]

I'm not sure about this but It seems the new Win7 drivers from Realtek causes a lot of crackling. But I seems to have fixed my issue not by any magic but by installed old realtek drivers it seems R170 (v1.7) seems to stop the crackling at any bitrate

[bernat_codina]

I'm not sure about this but It seems the new Win7 drivers from Realtek causes a lot of crackling. But I seems to have fixed my issue not by any magic but by installed old realtek drivers it seems R170 (v1.7) seems to stop the crackling at any bitrate

It looks like I'm having the same problem with the annoying crackling. Please could you give me a hint on how to get these old Realtek drives that you mention in your message? Thank you.

[Junior2613]

http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/SOUND-CAR...iver-R170.shtml

I hope it works as it worked for me

[aviv00]

did u try this ver

http://www.driver-soft.com/html/118888.html

[Junior2613]

Looks like 2.29 or 2.30 I tried 2.30 and it crackled like someone eating crisps. Also if you vlited your 7 make sure you don't remove multimedia class scheduler.

[bernat_codina]

Thanks for your answer, Junior2613. Unfortunately, the drivers that worked for you aren't supported by my system. I found a very good improvement after installing the relatively old drives that came with my system plus the ATI HDMI Audio Device R2.29 from the Realtek site. This is not the ultimate solution as I keep hearing crackles from time to time, but they are now much more bearable. I hope that new Seven updates will fix this problem.

[Junior2613]

have you tried dropping the bitrates on your sound ?? because really you should be at 16bit @ 48khZ or something but sometimes it gets set to 24bit @ 192khZ

[aviv00]

try to change the performance from program to background services

im using server 2008 didnt get any problem maybe a bit but its nothing