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March 30th, 2018 01:00

Did you try disabling CPU C states in BIOS?

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March 30th, 2018 06:00

I hadn't, but I have now - problem still exists. The aformentioned  High Definition Audio Device driver works well without having to disable C-states, and it still works even with the performance level set to Balanced. (but I am testing in High Performance mode)

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April 3rd, 2018 05:00

I thought it might be the Waves MaxxAudio processing causing the latency, but I have now tried Kevin Shroff's modded Realtek driver , which removes MaxxAudio - it still has high latency.  Back to the Microsoft High Definition Audio Device driver. 

February 2nd, 2020 17:00

@skip198 how is your experience with the microsoft driver and  Kevin Shroff's modded driver?

 

PS: I've now found that I've now found that the latest 9560 BIOS causes __seconds__ of delay because of hundreds of SMI interrupts.
In this process I've made an SMI counter tool for windows

https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/Dell-XPS-15-9560-BIOS-0-18-0-causes-SECONDS-of-SMI-latency-not/td-p/7477967

 

February 2nd, 2020 17:00

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