LatencyMon: finding the root cause of audio dropouts, clicks and pops

[Resplendence]

Off the scale, sorry what do you mean ?

[UltraJv]

It goes straight into the red and the HDD LED stays on when its running.

[Resplendence]

Mostly if the process playing audio is hit by hard pagefaults it doesn't matter any more so much how long they take to resolve because the consequences are almost always terrible. But that's the time it takes for them to get resolved so I don't see why it should be misleading.
//Daniel

[UltraJv]

Well - Im trying to find the cause and its telling me that various processes are responsible (MSMPENG.EXE) including the program itself. The HDD LED dosnt access attall unless I run Latencymon, it never stops during running Latencymon - Windows 7 64 bit and 32 bit. So I think its leading me on a wild Goosechase.

[Resplendence]

It's normal for the system to be hit by hard pagefaults. You need to check if the process which is producing audio is hit while it's playing. By clicking the Process tab, check if you see the hard pagefault count of the audio process change soon after a click or interruption occurred.

//Daniel

[UltraJv]

Well, I stopped looking. Guess Im just being picky

[Boy Wonder]

Sorry for necro'ing this thread, but I can't stop singing its praises. And that's primarily because I'd been looking into upgrading my lowly Ryzen 5 2500u/16GB/500MB SSD/Win 11 laptop. However, after reading various articles online about streamlining and maximizing my OS for audio, my LatencyMon readings are now so low it thrills me.