Quote Originally Posted by Crimson1128 View Post
while I'm unsure if a gpu would act as a sound card itself (google isn't really giving me a clear answer), that does indeed make me think it's a thing with asus motherboards themselves, as realtek is an asus thing, and I've yet to see anyone with this same issue that *hasn't* had an asus MB... definitely seems to be the common factor.
It's not ASUS. Mine is MSI and I've stuttered sporadically since EW launch. Did the first dungeon and amazingly boss combat music and effects were clear. Trash combat sounds were just that, stuttering garbage. Never had an issue like this in the game before. If I had any sound issues in the past, it was combined with some graphical lag so it was just everything slowing down. This is purely sound and everything else runs smooth as butter.