Audio choppy after GPU upgrade

[chumface]

Went from a GTX 980 to a RTX 3060 Ti. So I maxed out my graphic settings. Now it acts as if my sound cannot keep up. It cuts out and stutters.

[Obsessive Power]

Best to download the driver from NVIDIA again, then download and run DDU to clear your PC of your old drivers. Lastly, install the driver again after the DDU reboot.

[WeirdScienceX]

Sounds like the CPU is being bottlenecked

[Visitor 24]

Your Nvidia driver has probably, automatically installed the audio driver for your graphics card,.
To fix that issue, press the "Windows" and the "X" key.
Go to Device Manager and you should see it as "Nvidia High Definition Audio".
If you right click that, you can disable it.

Cheers and good luck.

[chumface]

I have a Creative sound card.

[Visitor 24]

Thanks for the info, I have a Creative sound card also, but if you let the Nvidia driver install itself, it will always want to update the sound chip built into the Nvidia graphics card.

[chumface]

Originally posted by Visitor 24:

Thanks for the info, I have a Creative sound card also, but if you let the Nvidia driver install itself, it will always want to update the sound chip built into the Nvidia graphics card.

Are you saying updating Video card driver will affect my sound card drivers?

[lIIllllIlIIIIIlI]

Right-click the speaker icon, select Sounds, go to Playback, select your sound device, click Properties, go to the Advanced tab and change the format to 480000 Hz or a lower frequency.

This might not work, but it sometimes works for other games.

[Visitor 24]

That's right, Nvidia cards have a built-in sound chip.
If you just check with the Windows and X keys (takes 20 seconds to check).
Good luck, cheers.

[Visitor 24]

Chumface, I work in IT, just try checking your device manager, as I suggested above.

You will see something like this:

Sound, video and game controllers
NVIDIA high definition audio
Realtek(R) audio
Sound Blaster audio controller
Sound Blaster Z

Then right click the NVIDiIA one and disable (not uninstall) it, then restart the PC.

Good luck.

[chumface]

Done