It will monitor your system’s hardware drivers and provide recommendations, informing you which hardware driver seems to be the problem.
Click the “Start” button and let it run in the background for a while. To check your DPC latency, download and run LatencyMon. This can lead to audio problems like clicks, pops, dropouts, and other issues. If a driver takes too long to do something, it can prevent other drivers-like your sound driver-from doing the work they need to do in a timely fashion.
This is the part of Windows that handles hardware drivers. DPC stands for “Deferred Procedure Call”. This problem may also be caused by DPC latency. If you built your own PC, check the driver download page for your motherboard manufacturer-or your sound card manufacturer, if you use a separate sound card instead of your motherboard’s onboard sound. To get newer sound drivers, visit your computer manufacturer’s website, find the driver download page for your model of PC, and download the latest sound drivers available.
Windows 10 automatically attempts to keep your drivers up to date, but even then it may not always offer the latest sound drivers.
If you’re using older sound drivers, you may need to update them to fix various bugs. Some problems may be fixed in newer sound drivers. This option normally isn’t a problem, so you should probably re-enable it if disabling it doesn’t solve the problem. Click “OK” and see if this solved your problem. Disable the “Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device” option under “Exclusive Mode”. You’ll find this setting on the same window where the “Default Format” option is. This shouldn’t normally be a problem: Blame bad sound drivers if it’s causing issues on your system. Some sound drivers seem to have issue with the “Exclusive Mode” option that allows applications to take exclusive control of your sound card. It depends on your sound hardware and drivers. There may be no option to disable enhancements at all. There may be a similar tab here-like one named “Sound Blaster”-where you’ll find similar effects to disable. Not all software drivers perform this function, so you won’t always see the “Enhancements” tab on all systems. Click “OK” to save your changes and then test to see if the problems continue. Click the “Enhancements” tab here-if you see one-and check the “Disable All Enhancements” checkbox. To disable sound enhancements, use the same Properties window. If these aren’t working properly-or if your CPU is being taxed too heavily-these could result in sound problems. Some sound drivers use software “enhancements” in an attempt to improve your sound quality. If it’s set to CD quality and you experience problems, try changing to another audio format level and see what happens.