LogFAQs > #965471670

FatalAccident posted...

No crackling when I use WMP or itunes to watch movies or listen to music.

What the fuck is going on? Wtf is it about sound from YT or games that makes it crackle but not sound from music or movies?

theoretically it would be which part of your computer it was passing through or how much is passing through.

but if youtube does it but playing a video file doesn't, that's definitely odd. I would guess that one of the two is hardware accelerated and the other isn't, or one is very high bandwidth and the other isn't. could also be that one is being played off a noisy drive and the other isn't. (though that would probably be the reverse of what you describe unless YT buffers video to the drive).

if games do it, then maybe it's hardware acceleration. (I know on mine that graphics and video playing both compete for graphical throughput and if I watch a video at 1080p60 my load times in games will be 10x longer and stuff will start failing to load into the game world.)

if it was me I would find a youtube video that did it and then download that video and try playing it off different drives, and I would try to find hw acceleration toggles in programs to see if that made a difference or not. also try switching between hi-res and low-res video.

(chrome hw accel. toggle is at Settings -> Advanced -> System. interestingly mine is off.)