Stuttering, Audio glitch, Freezing pc

[Devastator4520]

Hello,

Less than a few years ago, I finished my pc build

x570 Plus Tuf gaming

5800x Ryzen

6900xt Sapphire

Few ssd's, Corsair AIO and few fans

Randomly my pc started stuttering and audio glitching random games at random times, almost like if you are watching youtube and you hold down spacebar for 2-3 seconds, That's the glitch. I left a memory test a few hours running with no issues. 3D benchmark for 5-10 loops stress test and it was okay.

When it happens everything spikes. FPS, Utilisation of GPU/CPU and so on, no idea what it could be. I reser completely and wiped everything on windows 10 and nothing. I reset everything and put windows 11, and already Deep Rock Galactic was stuttering at the very beggining. It got fixed with Snappy Driver Installer or either AMD Chipsed installer, no idea. But now it does it evey single time I tab out of the game.

I am losing my mind and patience, considering throwing everything in the trash and losing all the money. Please help

[Yukinobi]

Also i want to share something, got an issue few days ago with this latest Nvidia Driver Version: 535.98

I was playing Rainbow Six Siege with my friends and suddenly the screen just went black with wierd graphics, artifacts and colors ( i dont know how to explain it dont have a picture of it), but the PC froze totally forcing me to push the reset button and i have to mention that i got this weird sound glitch loop too, just like Devastator 4520 showed us in his Youtube Shorts (yea that annoying "prrrr" horrible sound loop).

So more than a hardware issue it might be something related with the graphics card drivers, Nvidia have been doing weird stuff with the drivers lately, so in many ocassions i had to use DDU to clean up the drivers first and then roll back to the previews stable older drivers.

So far i have rolled back to the preview older driver with no more issues in many games and also in Rainbow Six Siege, wanted to share this in case someone find it useful.

[Yukinobi]

Originally posted by Disco:

Originally posted by Yukinobi:

Same here, i launch the game with DX11 because everytime i want to play with a friend in DX12 mode the game just crashes randomly after 30 mins of play or less.

Didnt had any issues when i play solo, but when i go coop with some of my friends it always crashes :/

Makes it even weirder that DX12 is the default considering it gives so many people issues. It sucks that DX12 gives higher FPS too since you have to choose between performance and stability.

They should add Vulkan support one of these days. Usually gives performance and stability big boosts.

Actually i dont find any performance issues between DX12 and 11, is just that DX 12 seems unstable for me on this game but DX11 runs smooth too.

[Yukinobi]

Can anyone confirm this?, i may be a little nitpick but i have noticed that when you are inside the Season Terminal, if you listen really carefully the sound just suffers a little micro cut (background sounds, music, effects etc etc...), its like the sounds goes aways for a mili second, listen to it for a few minutes (use headsets) and you will notice that micro sound cut just when the music and all the stuff are about to loop again.

Anyone noticed this?

[Devastator4520]

Okay so DX12 is crappy in general from my experience

Also there is 100% nothing wrong with my components building wise, paste is good, cooler is fine, fans are perfect and I looked up CPU temperatures for the past 2hrs whilst gaming and it never went above 55°C

I wouldn't necessarily say you've done anything wrong cleaning it, but maybe some cables have slightly disconnected or maybe there's been a discharge of electricity from you to a certain component

Also I'm not too sure if you're experiencing the same issue as I am? Where the pc goes all stuttery, visually and audio wise after cleaning it from dust?

[Devastator4520]

Originally posted by Yukinobi:

Also i want to share something, got an issue few days ago with this latest Nvidia Driver Version: 535.98

I was playing Rainbow Six Siege with my friends and suddenly the screen just went black with wierd graphics, artifacts and colors ( i dont know how to explain it dont have a picture of it), but the PC froze totally forcing me to push the reset button and i have to mention that i got this weird sound glitch loop too, just like Devastator 4520 showed us in his Youtube Shorts (yea that annoying "prrrr" horrible sound loop).

So more than a hardware issue it might be something related with the graphics card drivers, Nvidia have been doing weird stuff with the drivers lately, so in many ocassions i had to use DDU to clean up the drivers first and then roll back to the previews stable older drivers.

So far i have rolled back to the preview older driver with no more issues in many games and also in Rainbow Six Siege, wanted to share this in case someone find it useful.

Funnily enough I've not experienced a single crash, issue at all with R6, like ever including this stutter issue from the shorts on YT.

It actually might be you know? You might be onto something because 2 ish years ago, when I first bought my first 6900XT, I have always made sure everything was compatible before the build and every single piece of software up to date. I don't recall updating a specific version or driver of anything that made this problem occour. (You don't really keep track of updates, you just update it and forget it, so I don't know if it actually was AMD drivers that ruined it ever since)

I have I think 3 times now, reported a bug with AMD software thingy but no one ever came back to me. Included some videos and screenshots of LatencyMon and stuff like that but I'm not sure if it is AMD drivers

[RaindropperinG]

Originally posted by Devastator4520:

Okay so DX12 is crappy in general from my experience

Also there is 100% nothing wrong with my components building wise, paste is good, cooler is fine, fans are perfect and I looked up CPU temperatures for the past 2hrs whilst gaming and it never went above 55°C

I wouldn't necessarily say you've done anything wrong cleaning it, but maybe some cables have slightly disconnected or maybe there's been a discharge of electricity from you to a certain component

Also I'm not too sure if you're experiencing the same issue as I am? Where the pc goes all stuttery, visually and audio wise after cleaning it from dust?

Thanks for the reply.

Someone I've talked to about it did mention that some cable might've been even slightly disconnected.

I couldn't notice anything different, but not entirely sure; that's still a possibility.

Well, in my case, the PC fans became noisy and the whole PC began slightly vibrating, with CPU temps gradually reaching over 90 degrees Celsius, over the span of 5 mins, as I mentioned; but I didn't notice any other symptom.

[Devastator4520]

That is super strange

Did you look up in task manager and sorted the CPU tab so that it lists the percentage of what's using your CPU most?

I don't know what specs and GPU/CPU you have, but maybe try downloading the latest chipsets for the CPU/motherboard, maybe update BIOS?

[Devastator4520]

Originally posted by Yukinobi:

Can anyone confirm this?, i may be a little nitpick but i have noticed that when you are inside the Season Terminal, if you listen really carefully the sound just suffers a little micro cut (background sounds, music, effects etc etc...), its like the sounds goes aways for a mili second, listen to it for a few minutes (use headsets) and you will notice that micro sound cut just when the music and all the stuff are about to loop again.

Anyone noticed this?

Also, I don't seem like I have any issues with Deep Rock or any game at all for the moment, but yes, that stuttery/buggy audio sound you're experiencing, I've had that for almost 2-3 ish years, on and off which is weird

And when it happens, does your pc go at like 1fps a second too? Mine does that as well as max Mhz for GPU and Util max at 99% as if a game is running at max settings, but weirdly GPU temps are at like 45°C. Explain that? How is my GPU running flat out but it's as cold as a grave?

[RaindropperinG]

Originally posted by Devastator4520:

That is super strange

Did you look up in task manager and sorted the CPU tab so that it lists the percentage of what's using your CPU most?

I don't know what specs and GPU/CPU you have, but maybe try downloading the latest chipsets for the CPU/motherboard, maybe update BIOS?

I did check task manager at some point, before the CPU overheated again, but couldn't notice anything using the CPU more than normal ( I also had no program open, aside from the startup ones ), and what was used shouldn't warrant an overheat

Might take another look tomorrow, to be sure.

[Yukinobi]

Originally posted by Devastator4520:

Originally posted by Yukinobi:

Can anyone confirm this?, i may be a little nitpick but i have noticed that when you are inside the Season Terminal, if you listen really carefully the sound just suffers a little micro cut (background sounds, music, effects etc etc...), its like the sounds goes aways for a mili second, listen to it for a few minutes (use headsets) and you will notice that micro sound cut just when the music and all the stuff are about to loop again.

Anyone noticed this?

Also, I don't seem like I have any issues with Deep Rock or any game at all for the moment, but yes, that stuttery/buggy audio sound you're experiencing, I've had that for almost 2-3 ish years, on and off which is weird

And when it happens, does your pc go at like 1fps a second too? Mine does that as well as max Mhz for GPU and Util max at 99% as if a game is running at max settings, but weirdly GPU temps are at like 45°C. Explain that? How is my GPU running flat out but it's as cold as a grave?

I'm having issues with this latest Nvidia Driver, on RS Siege de PC freezes and then i get this weird audio glitch loop forcing me to push reset button, if i remeber well the temps on the cpu and gpu we're normal while running the game s 57-65 max respectively, i never had issues running a los of games, but this latest drivers are a mess.

In my case fortunately managed to solve the issue by using a driver cleaner like DDU and roll back to the preview driver, so far no issues but i'll keep testing.

Just in case somebody with RTX cards, stay away from this new drivers until they reléase a new one that it works without issues.

[Devastator4520]

Originally posted by Yukinobi:

Originally posted by Devastator4520:

Also, I don't seem like I have any issues with Deep Rock or any game at all for the moment, but yes, that stuttery/buggy audio sound you're experiencing, I've had that for almost 2-3 ish years, on and off which is weird

And when it happens, does your pc go at like 1fps a second too? Mine does that as well as max Mhz for GPU and Util max at 99% as if a game is running at max settings, but weirdly GPU temps are at like 45°C. Explain that? How is my GPU running flat out but it's as cold as a grave?

I'm having issues with this latest Nvidia Driver, on RS Siege de PC freezes and then i get this weird audio glitch loop forcing me to push reset button, if i remeber well the temps on the cpu and gpu we're normal while running the game s 57-65 max respectively, i never had issues running a los of games, but this latest drivers are a mess.

In my case fortunately managed to solve the issue by using a driver cleaner like DDU and roll back to the preview driver, so far no issues but i'll keep testing.

Just in case somebody with RTX cards, stay away from this new drivers until they reléase a new one that it works without issues.

I mean it is completely possible we are talking about Nvidia and AMD drivers, but it's been 2ish years I've had this issue now.

Also something worth mentioning. I THINK I have noticed something in my case turning on with a delay. Like some RGB just appear after I look away and I can definitely hear a switch noise, Maybe my GPU but I'm not too sure. Also a couple of you now have been experiencing my same issue, although it's different equipment, so that leaves drivers to be questioned?

[Devastator4520]

https://www.reddit.com/r/forza/comments/10cnkwg/strange_visual_artifacts_in_some_menuscutscenes/

If you take a minute to watch the video on this link (about half way) that's how my pc started behaving in Forza Horizon 3 (from Microsoft store)

Although it's very likely it is a game/graphics drivers issue, I weirdly experienced it in Titan Quest too, and randomly browsing on the internet. Although it was less than half a second long, like it was a super fast horizontal glitchy line from left to right of my ultra wide and it went away very quick. I'm not too sure if it really was a problem with my pc, but atm nothing else has happened in the last couple hours...

I'm really starting to consider selling every individual bit of my pc and starting over, this time probably with Nvidia GPU, and maybe nothing from Corsair

If it is indeed a hardware issue, any ideas of what could cause some staticky lines to flash and go away really fast?

[Yukinobi]

Originally posted by Devastator4520:

https://www.reddit.com/r/forza/comments/10cnkwg/strange_visual_artifacts_in_some_menuscutscenes/

If you take a minute to watch the video on this link (about half way) that's how my pc started behaving in Forza Horizon 3 (from Microsoft store)

Although it's very likely it is a game/graphics drivers issue, I weirdly experienced it in Titan Quest too, and randomly browsing on the internet. Although it was less than half a second long, like it was a super fast horizontal glitchy line from left to right of my ultra wide and it went away very quick. I'm not too sure if it really was a problem with my pc, but atm nothing else has happened in the last couple hours...

I'm really starting to consider selling every individual bit of my pc and starting over, this time probably with Nvidia GPU, and maybe nothing from Corsair

If it is indeed a hardware issue, any ideas of what could cause some staticky lines to flash and go away really fast?

That looks def like a GPU hardware failure, thanks for sharing with us, it will be helpful to determine wich components are failing.

You are not alone, i'm lately having issues with my new builded PC.

My RTX 3080 have been performing really strange in some games, in Overwatch 2 a couple of times it just froze or the game crashed randomly, there was onetime when i got the esame sound glitch like you had.

In Rainbow Six Siege almost the same story, sometimes the in game sounds just gets choppy, it's really annoying.

On Ghost Recon Wildlands i get a micro sound cut just when i'm about to enter the main menu, also the game freezes randomly and kick me from the game after few minutes of play, sometimes i can play for few hours without issues, and sometimes can't it's just solo inconsistente.

On Deep Rock Galactic i get a micro sound cut too just when i enter and navigating on the menus, it used to crash when i play in DX 12 mode but not anymore, it's so random.

I never got any issues when i'm doing other stuff like watching videos, listen music, navigate on the internet, only happens when i'm playing games.

I already tested My RTX 3080 on differents motherboards (MSI B550 Gaming Edge Wifi and Aorus B550 Elite V2) also with differents CPUs, one was Ryzen 9 5900x and the other was Ryzen 5 5600x, and in both plataforms the RTX 3080 had really weird behavior and performance.

PC freezes, audio glitches, micro audio chopps, game crashes, all of this symptoms happened in diff platforms

So i made a conclusión, in my case seems like def my GPU it's the problem here, i don't know how this could happens,

[Devastator4520]

I mean, yes it can definitely be that but I have a 6800xt and my previous 6900xt did the same. Now you're telling me your 3080 does the same?

Is this really GPU? And nothing else is the problem? Because how can all the 6000 series GPU do this in my case? And it looks like most of the 3080 and 90 series too from the few replies?

We're talking about two different companies and driver updates, of which I guess they could be experiencing the same issues since they were made at the same time with similar technology?

With my previous 6900xt after experiencing these issues, I decided to clean install Windows 11 of which made the issue go from random, to constantly always happening whenever any kind of game opened up. So technically it made it worse going to Windows 11

[Yukinobi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYnRL-x6DVI