I eventually got it somewhat stable after turning off all mic processing in discord, but that all fell apart moments ago as I launched valorant for the first time in a while. I read countless threads about it, watched probably 100 youtube videos about it and tried everything in this list. I stopped using shadowplay and it seemed to help, but it still happened. It's so quick that he can tell me when I click record while talking because my mic starts cutting out really bad. I use shadowplay to record gameplay, and in discord, my mic sounds fine to my friend until I start recording. I'm actually pulling my hair out over this issue. Settings change for any Motherboard and CPU (again, I have a ryzen 1800x).Īnyways, I actually resolved my long time problem with the PC reset step (and while resetting, I also changed USB port). Before doing anything similar to your BIOS, you should be conscious of what you're doing. I disabled any Smart Fan control, disabled C-state control, enabled relaxed EDC throttling, disabled AMD Cool&Quiet and disabled Spread Spectrum since I don't have any high voltage tower next to my house.
I don't know why, but my first thought went to the CPU, so I decided to update the BIOS and then checked some settings on it. Since I couldn't find the way to fix this, I started to think to anything that could cause this. Please let me know if anyone could fix the problem thanks to any of these!Īt first, after doing everything on this list, it seemed that my problem was gone, but if I'm here editing you may understand why.
Manually install your drivers, getting them from their own site (Motherboard, GPU, Wireless Cards and in this case Focusrite). Optimization softwares will just create more problems, boosting programs usually create system instabilities by changing priority or shutting down services. If you did reset your pc, remember to not install any optimization software such as CCleaner or those utilities to change the performances of CPU and/or GPU. KEEP THE AUDIO INTERFACE UNPLUGGED UNTIL YOU GET TO THE MOMENT OF REINSTALLING DRIVERS. Right after reinstalling windows, it will probably install automatically some video drivers. Absolutely do this if you couldn't solve. PC reset (try reinstall Windows as last chance). Buying a self-powered USB hub and connecting the interface to it.
Try uninstalling your GPU driver with DDU (remember to deactivate Windows Update with DDU), install the focusrite drivers and then do a custom setup of you GPU driver without any audio drivers. Since your problems could be coming from a lack of energy this should fix them, but make sure to check out all the other adjustments.
" 1) In the device manager (Right-click the Windows icon > Device Manager), in the Universal Serial Bus controllers section, right click each USB Root Hub, choose Properties > Power Management and untick the Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power option. Try making these adjustments in your windows settings: especially this one: This is the link for the drivers I used: So click the second link and find them by yourself. You should check if there have been more recent releases since you could try this fixes much time after this guide has been posted. I actually have a Ryzen 1800x, so I immediatly tried and since I installed them I had no more problems. In the last beta version of drivers for this interface, they fixed some issues with AMD CPUs. Anyway, try every port you have (but the ones of your Motherboard, not of the case) I'm pretty sure that I read on the Focusrite website that it would be better to connect the Scarlett to a USB port 2.0. Wipe the drivers, change USB port and reinstall the drivers. The most obvious ones: Reinstall drivers, increasing buffer size.
I think they should be done in the following order: Thanks to many users of this reddit and to countless research I've done, I collected some of what I think are the best things you should try to fix this pretty common issue.