Latency Monitoring and Reducing Windows Latency (Eliminate pops and clicks)

[WarpCanada]

If you've noticed your DAW showing a processing overload or you hear pops and clicks...

My DAW, Cubase has a little red indicator like this. It turns on right when I hear annoying pops and clicks.

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NT Kernel Latency also makes your CPU act like 30% of the CPU you paid for, as you'll find that you can't run heavy loads as the processor is busy doing these DPC processing things in the background that are eating up CPU time you don't realize is going away.

The NT Kernel core in Windows and the device driver layer and things like ACPI are what are killing your realtime performance. To see these issues, and to find out if you can do anything about them (sometimes you can't do anything, sorry), there's a tool, and some resources.


The tool:

https://www.resplendence.com/latencymon

A great tutorial on using the tool:

https://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/articles/solving-dpc-latency-issues/

I have found that disabling Bluetooth and wifi, disabling C-states and any power-scaling or speedStep features in your BIOS is a good start, but there are a few other tricks you can try.

If you're on a mac, guess what, you don't need this tool, and the DPC Latency issue is Windows Only.  Macs tend to JUST WORK better for realtime audio.

[des0free]

Thanks much for this info!