Audio popping issue

[XenophineEX]

Well this answer wasn't for u. i just wanted an answer from Toji cause he asked who has a newer pc and had probable sound issues as well. I have sound issues already on the start screen for direct x 11 but am sound-lag free on direct x9; but crowded areas lag hard and freeze from time to time on direct x9. It's nice for u that overclocking work for u but I am to scared about it

I am mostly sound lag free with whatever version of directx windows 10 comes with on a nvidia gtx 960. Overclocking helps immensely on the sound stuttering. Although during credits it is still unavoidable, all 3 credits for the main campaigns I completed.. Heavensward, Stormbringers, Shadowbringers, stuttered to the point I had to skip them. The end fights were good though especially the end of Shadowbringers... very flashy... zero lag from the gpu and cpu always at 40% usage.

Gpu was at 100% though. I find it odd this game never does peg out my processor... and that may be the culprit here.

Hence why over clocking works so well... it is expanding the areas the game is using, particularly for sound. It doesn't seem to want to use all the cores for a AMD processor.

I would follow up with screenshots but this forum doesn't allow it, and I can understand why. But the processor is always at 40% for this game. Even set to real time, So I fear something is amiss in processor scheduling. And that is no easy fix.

As a odd counter to the cpu lag, a few games I play are through bluestacks 5, simple enough android games and I have them running at 80% processor.