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The Snap, Crackle, and Pop of Windows Vista Audio

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In a previous post, I complained that my Windows Vista x64 machine was suffering from audio that popped, clicked, and sounded like it was, for lack of a better term, ‘losing frames.’ At the time, I had looked around the ‘net some, and tried a few different drivers for my on-board sound card. The problem seemed to get better for awhile, but steadily worsened again to the point where I considered purchasing a new sound card, something that I haven’t done since 1998.

Tonight I took a deeper look down the tubes, and found this forum post that seemed to suggest that the problem was actually with the way nVidia’s 8800GT drivers access system memory when the Vista machine in question is host to more than 2GB of RAM. Following the suggestions in the thread, I headed over to the nVidia website and picked up the latest copy of their drivers (March 2009).

After the installation and a reboot, everything seems to be working just fine, with perfectly clear audio from multiple applications, and none of the annoying popping and clicking sounds that were driving me crazy before.


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