Audio popping issue

[Kenneth34250]

My rig is a newly built 12900KF with 3090 and SN850 PCI-E 4.0 SSD. 95% time my sound is fine but sometimes I got 1-2 sec stutters in town when a lot of players on the same screen. I noticed even my overall CPU usage is constantly below 20%, one thread spike to over 80% sometimes and the audio stutter may occur when that happens.

I guess the new sound engine does some complex calculation for positioning audio and it is a single thread design, that may explain why older CPUs have more often stutters if the sound engine heavily/fully load a thread/core.