GPU stuttering FPS simple fix 

You always got something so useful even if it's so obscure. That's why I keep coming back to your videos. Good work. 👍

I'm sorry, *what??* That's such a tremendous FPS increase before to after! I've been in PC gaming for decades now and never even considered the GPU's audio driver impacting performance like that. 🤯

Also another fix would just not be to install the driver for it. Nvidia allows you not to install it. I usually just install the Nvidia driver and Physx is all. Using the custom installation and not select the HDMI audio driver

Thanks! This trick seems to solve my latencymon poor performance results. I also had some terrible Nahimic (A-Volute) audio post-processing drivers/software installed that was introducing a noticeable audio lag in video reproduction (sometimes though). I've found a very useful Reddit post about a permanent removal of Nahimic as it's persistent like it's malware... BTW, I have a Lenovo Legion 5 Pro 2021 (5800h+3070). Love your content! Keep 'em coming!

thanks, i also played a game which runs smoothly at 80-90 fps then it drops to 30fps when you zoom in (shooter) and the suggestion i got on the web is setting a fps limit, which helped fix it. I'll try your advice too!

Man I’d love to see more videos like this, maybe more guides on driver conflicts? Just boosted my 3080 10GB by 7-10 fps in MW2. 218 consistently on the in game benchmark.

Thank you!!!! This appears to be the magic setting i was looking for!!!!! ...at least on the Borderlands 3 and Cyberpunk benchmark tests. I bought a 4070 Super and it had higher framerates than my 3070, but everything was suddenly stuttering. Wiped the drivers with DDU and reinstalled, tried several other things... no luck. But this did it!!

Thank You!!! I've been having a stuttering issue with my laptop's RTX 4060 while playing GTAV with the FiveM app. I couldn't figure it out - I'd clear my cache, check my settings, turn on/off the MUX switch - couldn't get it to stop. This video helped me to clear all of the stuttering up. It's gone and the game runs as smoothly as it should with an RTX 4060, I9-14900HX with 32GB of RAM. Relieving the 4060 of the audio processing was just what my laptop needed. Thank you, again.

I just disabled it on my 3080 10GB and ran Timespy on 3DMark and it comfortably beat all my old score and finally brought me above the average score for my hardware, instead of being below it since I got my PC. Gonna test it in games later. I also have NVIDIA Virtual Audio Device (Wave Extensible) (WDM), no idea what it is, but I didn't disable it, only disabled NVIDIA High Definition Audio.

It fixed all my stuttering problems !!! amazing!

Thanks for the advice, super simple and really useful

Thank you, you are a life saver, mine was running normally before, until suddenly my gpu usage keep hitting 100% and massive stuttering, then i found your video, no more stuttering anymore!

you absolute genius. thanks for this weird but exceptional fix

You are a genius. Love your work my friend. 🤘🤘

Someone who knows what theyre talking about and doesnt just say use ddu and reinstall drivers. Love how you know why the problem is happening in order to fix it.

Wow 😯 I will try this, we need more videos like this as well as the repairs 🙏 thank you so much for taking your time to provide the content you do

Bruh... That happen to me and migrate to Linux and my RIG worked flawlessly, I learn a lot, and I'm having a great time using Linux; don't tell me that this was the culprit, now is too late can't go back to Windows.

Somehow this fixed the problem i was having in CS2 with my 4070S you are a life saver

My MSI motherboard comes with 4 different audio cards separate of the GPU so Im definitely trying this lets see if it works

DUDE!!! you are an absolute godsend. I have been working with a dead laptop while in the process of building a pc and working on my financial situation. This dropped my GPU usage on my gaming laptop so significantly that it went from 40-55% usage to 0% just from audio alone. I had no idea this was sucking all my power because I assumed the GPU was for graphics only and not HD audio... Again, thank you. you saved me so much money and time.

Huh... Did not expect problems there! Thanks for the video!

You fixed my lip syncing issue. I DDU and reinstalled my drivers without HDMI audio and it fixed it!

Nice new intro logo! Possibly the audio is competing for PCIe bandwidth?

Damn! Never heard about this! 🤯 You have become my favorite YT channel by far. No.1 with a bullet!

I love Valley benchmark and Love your Content 😎👍

was playing pubg, my game was stuttering i searched for fix and came across alot of different fix and settings, but this one literally fixed it all, thanks alot and respect

NorthWizardRepair does it again. Glad to see you gaining subs at a rate of about 1k a day. You easily deserve 10m subs. Cheers

For my fiancée's pc it was even worse, I upgraded her from a gtx 1060 to an rtx 4070 super, and all it would do was constantly crash. Then I figured out the audio driver from nvidia was causing all of it. Disabled it and everything works smooth as butter.

just wow i didnt know that hdmi audio driver kills the performance very nice

I think this did it for me.

I'm from Brazil and you my friend, save me. God bless u

omfg it worked!!!!!!!!! i had three separate audio drivers trying to work at the same time causing consistent lag spikes for as long as i can remember! thank you so much!!!1

I'm on Win10 and mine is only showing NVIDIA Virtual Audio Device (Wave Extensible) (WDM), Realtek(R) Audio and High Definition Audio Device. My motherboard is Asrock and it uses Realtek which is up to date according to there website. Should I disable the other two?

Excellent it works also on my MSI laptop. Fps are stable now. Thanks

Yeah this has happened to me, I disabled all the extra sound related stuff and it fixed it. Unplugging my headphones and observing the change in my fps helped in identifying.

You telling me I've been rendering audio with my GPU all this time just to... not use it? Wow....

this guy might actually be the goat, went from 80ms frame time to 11ms frame time and a 100fps increase in cs2 from this fix. Can't believe it actually worked lmaoo

Is the double fps just in synthetic benchmarks? or programs and games as well?

i was so pissed off since i got a new laptop w an fing 4070 in it,this seems to have fixed my problem,thank u alot

You my friend are a legend. Thank you for sharing this !!!!

Holy shit this worked like a charm on Dayz. Thank you.

Good work. 👍 Awesome video as always

This is the only video with this type of solution, thank u

Nice tip. Never used audio from videocards, will check if that is affecting me. I always use nvidia reference drivers, never specific to card OEM. Would that prevent this issue?

Would this fix game stuttering too? I get stutter without really a drop in FPS

No matter how i lock the frames, 60, 75 120 or more it will always drop, I'm annoyed af of it.

SPdif optical out for a sound bar, I always used ARC in the past, great quality tbf. But now I have mobo mid-tier audio I might as well use it.

This actually worked. Im not getting much more frames than before but all the stuttering is gone. Thank you sir!!!!

Oh my god, thank you so much. I've been facing a ton of performance problems with my RX7600 and I think this single setting might've just fixed it. Thanks a ton.

Thank you, my friend!

I’ve had these issues before switching from Nvidia to AMD. Crazy that a HDMI driver can do this

this had a mild increase on my system, my timespy score went up by 500 points from around 28,400 to 28,900

Also on FE and had issues with nVidia HDMI sound output from my TV, sound was ...well non-existent. Upon reinstalling the driver (custom and not "express") without the HDMI driver, the TV has sound again.......yeyyyyyyy :) That was few months ago, but on every driver update that came through, I`ve disabled the HDMI - motto, don`t break/fix what`s already working

I know a case of a guy who had a 4090, new. He got artifacts whenever he played Apex Legends if I remember the game correctly. I looked into it and it happened to be fairly common, and I wondered why there are so many fanboys throwing shit at AMD when Nvidia also has driver problems all the time. Literally both companies work fixes in every release.

Holyyyy cow it actually worked... Thank you my good sir.

Finally! Someone who understands that graphics cards are for graphics and not for sound. It's been years that I haven't installed Nvidia's sound drivers. People need to stop choosing Express setup when updating their Nvidia drivers. No need for sound drivers, or the PhysX or even the GeForce experience software. Learn to tweak your graphics card.

SO basically if I am using a headset or a Soundsystem that is using the sound device of my keyboard, I do not need the graphics card audio driver at all, right? Wouldn't it be better to deactivate them even if you don't have stuttering or low FPS issues? Grat channel btw. I subscribed

I use HDMI for sound 😒, I will try, see what happens, but I don’t see me giving up HDMI audio unless there’s significant gains

It is not a manufacturer issue. All the drivers on eg.: msi or gigabyte website are byte to byte match with nvidia drivers. The only difference is the i2c devices for rgb , pwm controller or other stuff that are reachable trough the cuda api. Propably just a bug on your side.

Thank you so much❤this helped my FPS.

If you disable the sound from the hdmi, does it disable the sound on VR headsets on DisplayPorts?

good tip for people actually having this problem, kinda sad as I tho its something new. keep up the good work!

One important tips for Asus graphic cards users: if you use Asus Armoury crate - be sure to uncheck "synchronize video card lighting with other components". Otherwise, there will be microstutters

disabled it and i have realtek at the bottom, sound still works i think its less stuttering but i also disabled xbox overly and capture helpful video, thanks

If you don't slim out your GPU driver _(from all that filler that comes with it)_ - you can get all sorts of weird bugs like that. I started to do a slim version _(besides undervolting, input lag registry hacks, and other stuff)_ of every GPU driver update I get long ago _(I also update only using "late" version as well - v535.98, v536.99, v545.92, ect)_ - and I haven't encountered any bugs *whatsoever* for many years. Even though the fellas at nVidia forums are having major _(fps, stuttering, ect)_ issues - I don't, despite having the same HW with the same driver version _(as them),_ and playing the same games. Most likely because they just do an "express install", with all those bells and whistles, which mutilate not only the 1%/0.1%, but the input lag as well. And the best part is - leaving _(before you install the main driver package, not _*_after_*_ it!)_ only the digital audio and PhysX _(besides the required driver itself, ofc)_ will let you use *all* the GPU hardware perks, like RTX, NVENC, PhysX, CUDA, AI, DLSS, Reflex, ect _(tested all of them myself)_. All that still is working on both old cards _(done it with a client's GT 620 today)_ and new ones _(my RTX 3060)._

Great Tip tony.

I have an astro headset. So do I disable all the audio things there but my headset ones (Astro Voice and Astro Game) and call it a day?

bro you are fucking brilliant. I NEVER have nvidia installer do my audio driver, i hate the fact that it's even there, but this seems like a really good way to make SURE it's putting no resources into audio, as it should be. More tips and tricks would be really nice, as well as your SUGGESTIONS for card makes/models - even though I'm sure you probably hate them all hahahah. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

nice tip. its a uuseless thing anyway if you are using other sound devices so its good practice for those looking to optimize to turn it off even if there is no problem

Anyone know where he goes to turn this setting off

Sound drivers always were pain in the ass

Even super position isn't that reliable for GPU stress testing, let alone Heaven. I need around a 100 mV more to keep my games stable at the same clocks whereas superposition tells me that I am stable with much lower mV 🤦‍♂️

I tried this on my 3080 10G in fh5 and it made no difference. Maybe only effective in certain configurations.

Why is the card not running on a full pcie lane? You need to take your storage nvme out of slot one and move it to slot 2. This 2ill allow your graphics card to run on all lanes. Your running pcie 16x 1.1???

The valve index makes use of Nividia HD audio driver

I have a 4090 and i suffer from drops/micro stutter or whatever it called, its really minor but im playing on a 3440x1440 screen so i do notice when it happened, never managed to find a fix for it

love this tip! do more pls 👍

People seriously overlook driver conflicts (or I guess wouldn't even know to begin looking for such when issues crop up)

Aha. There is more i can share but later. I fact that is a very old issue. Let me send tomorrow to the boss a way that reduces more

you are the GOAT thank god is subscribed!!!!

I never install the crap Nvidia HD audio driver and make sure it stays off my machine

Wow thank you so much !!!!!!!

..Disable HDMI Audio or HD Audi driver may solve the problem, but the reason this happends is that for some reason the Graphics driver software interrupt and the HD bus driver interrupt arre on the same physical core and thread... ...this interrupts can be moved to be handled by different cores and threads... ..i wont give any information that can mess upp the os for anyone, but if one wants it can be done, and its the real reason for the dropout in audio/video frames trough HDMI

wow thank you so much it fixed instantly

Is this a problem on amd and possibly intel, or only nvdia?

Thanks for the info

Love this video, I'd love to be able to do this to my MBP 5500m which throttles harder than Ghostrider. I know, I know, what was I doing spending 2.5k on a MBP when it gets hotter than the sun just trying to power an external monitor.... - I got punk'd.

something so simple... i just did it with my 3090ti and i cant believe i had a boost in performance in benchmarks.... lol what a strange issue. i never noticed it because.. well.. its a 3090ti, and it just kinda powers thru everything as expected. but the benchmark numbers have improved. wild! thanks!

Just a random thing I wonder, I see the card is running at PCI-E 1.1 with GPUZ? Does that maybe cause a communication, bandwidth restraint and maybe cause the driver stuttering when it has to worry about calling the audio decoder as well as the video? I honestly have no idea, just was a random thought while watching this video.

Was there a sound problem when you run heaven for first time? Because I can definitely hear static. If so, is this another symptom of this particular problem?

I wonder if this will introduce other issues like audio being out of sync with picture?

okay i will check some games and see if this makes any difference and i will share the result

hey guys i have a ryzen 9 5900x and a 7900gre, im being hit with constant micro stutter in games, i was wondering if anyone has any tips, iv been trying just about everything to reg edits bios updates the works but nothing is really helping much

Can you fix starfield next 😂

Thank you. My stutters are officially gone 🙏

Nvidia 1080Ti and it didn’t even give me one extra fps.

What in the hell is that sorcery, I've been troubleshooting my pc for months I never would have known the stutters were caused by the audio drivers.. 😅

My laptop used to get 120 fps I downloaded this nvidia driver now it’s down to 30 how do I fix it

Can I re enable the GPU sound driver after disabling it? I don't wanna mess things up.

Nice find. I'm not on windows, but I'll see if it helps on linux.