XPS 8950, "hiccups" with audio and video

@fireberd is the resident expert on audio recordings so maybe he'll have some good ideas...

@mixmkr  Since @fireberd thinks this may be related to the NVidia card, you can also try this:

Click Start>Run>services.msc. If "NVidia Display Container LS" is listed, and it's Startup type is Automatic, change that to Disabled. Don't change anything else in services.msc. Then reboot and see if that solves the problem.

I was getting sudden black screens on my XPS 8930 with NVida GTX 1660 Ti after the latest NVidia driver update Windows Update pushed on me. Since disabling that service, no more black screens.

I no longer have the NVidia Control Panel to change various display settings. Don't care, because I can make most of the same changes on the monitor's own On-Screen Display (OSD).

YRMV!

Thx.   Let me try some of these ideas.  I notice the Nvidia 30 series has a driver update out today. (3/22/2022)

Will try that first of course.

Re latency, crackling, etc...I'm very familiar with those issues and related block size and buffer settings...  the fact it happens on a low load YouTube playback, seems to lead to the graphics card 

SUPER thanks and will report back as things progress

Since, the latest nvidia update (3/22/2022), it has not happened again.  Keeping fingers crossed.

That's good news. Keep us posted...

I would first try to isolate the usual suspects: cpu, gpu, or ram, assuming motherboard is perfectly healthy.  Remove gpu and connect monitor to onboard DP video port.  If issue gone w youtube, cpu/ram are good but gpu/video driver are not.  If problem persists, not gpu but could be either cpu or ram.  remove all rams, reinstall only one (8 or 16 gb).  test each ram.  if each ram reproduces same hiccup, probably not memory but cpu.

I use my PC's in my home recording studio.

As previously posted in this thread, NVIDIA video has been an issue where AMD Radeon video is not.

Download and run the free (and popular) Resplendence Latency Mon.  It is what we use in audio for trouble shooting.

Resplendence Software - LatencyMon: suitability checker for real-time audio and other tasks

Hello, I'm not the original poster, but I'm experiencing an identical issue with my new XPS 8950 with the same specs. I've tried the suggestions on this thread as well as other suggestions online for people with similar issues. I ran LatencyMon and received the following report. https://pastebin.com/5krUbi9p 

I'll note that when I get a DPC routine with a very long execution time is when I get the audio hiccup. I went through the steps recommended by LatencyMon at the top of the report with no success.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated 

Hi I've had the exact same problem and just followed your advice by getting and running Latency Monitor. The results are here and its revealed the driver file causing the issue, I'm not familiar with it. Any idea if its vital and how to deal with it?

Results: https://imgur.com/a/eEFBgBb

Thanks,

Sam

Yeah...it actilually was ok thru early summer...but hiccupping again.  When it happens...latency monitor goes off the charts...but too newbie with that software to know why

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@mixmkr wrote:

Yeah...it actually was ok thru early summer...but hiccupping again.  When it happens...latency monitor goes off the charts...but too newbie with that software to know why

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A good start would be to post your Latency-Monitor screen-shot like the other user did.

Here is my Aurora-R6 with Nvidia GTX-1070, Windows-11 Pro (64 bit)
After 5 mins answering posts here in Google-Chrome ... (using network and video-card the most, apparently) says mine is fine.

Audio programs? Hmm, well, so far I really only have these installed and they are working fine.

- Audacity (editing tracks)
- Foobar2000 (transcoding music and ripping FLACs from SACD)
- VLC (my preferred media file player)

Aurora-R6

As I recall, an NVIDIA update fixed it.  I would look for a recent NVIDIA update and roll it back, to see if it fixes it.