Quote Originally Posted by XenophineEX View Post
Seems like a weird fix to install a driver made 4 years ago to fix a problem in 2021/2022

Realtek Driver:
Vista, Windows7, Windows8, Windows8.1, Windows10 Driver (32/64bits) Driver only (ZIP file) R2.82 2017/07/26 427 MB

it is so old it is downloading at 40kb a sec. It will be done in 4 hours, despite already having it on my system as windows installs a newer version, i'll try it none-the-less.

40.0 KB/s - 15.6 MB of 417 MB, 3 hours left (not exaggerating)
It's because realtek abandoned the chipset drivers long ago because they are just bad at doing audio drivers.

It does improve it for me but as I said your mileage may vary, I'm just trying to go down the list of solution's I can possibly try. I can't find any ini or settings to limit the amount of audio channels so that idea is out.