Hi, my speakers are giving me a very annoying crackling sound during games and video playback. The crackling gets worse when I enter full screen mode. I'm using an nvidia 6200 for video and a Griffin iMic as my soundcard. I have the latest drivers for my graphics card and griffin's website said that I don't need a driver for the iMic.
crackling sound during any type of graphics intense activity
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The_Other_One
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Is there any reason you're using this rather than an internal sound card? You're probably putting too much stress on your PC and it's having difficulties keeping up. USB has a fair amount of overhead compared to say a PCI sound card. Plus, I suspect something like this is more "emulated" and powered by the CPU where as a regular soundcard can fend for itself.
The reason is that I'm using a mac on this machine as well and the iMic was the only soundcard that I could get. I see your point about having the sound card process the signal. I should probably get one. My only concern is that I don't want to switch my cables everytime I boot into mac.