New computer/ableton install - Audio is glitchy now

[thatguy713]

I've been using Ableton for a year and a half or so now on my laptop that's just a simple dell dual core machine. I recently got a desktop quad core with more ram and is overall just a better machine in every way possible. In arrangement view when I place audio, sometimes it sounds distorted like the audio levels are too high and it will even pop sometimes. Other times when I place audio it sounds fine. When I export, it also sounds like whatever is in the session, good or bad.

Any ideas what may be causing this? I'm running 8.1.3.

Thanks.

[leedsquietman]

run the DPC latency checker and disable your drivers in control panel device manager one at a time.

Probably a driver, or possibly an IRQ conflict.

What are the computer specs. Which audio card are you running and at what latency.

[Musiclab]

My audio issues on my PC Quad were solved by changing my video card.

[leedsquietman]

This is totally not unusual at all, video card drivers have a habit of messing up system latency and audio.

[thatguy713]

The video card is an nvidia geforce gtx 280. I ran the dpc latency checker and disabled it and the screen resolution went to crap but the latency reduced about 50%. A few spikes here and there:



So is the goal here to have it all in the green? Honestly I think the audio is just onboard what's on the motherboard, it's a custom built machine that I bought off a guy from my office, so I'm assuming my next purchase should be a better sound card. What do you guys recommend?

Here's my device manager showing what I figured would probably be the most important stuff:



Thanks for the comments so far and I'm open to any suggestions you may have. I'm great with software but kinda clueless when it comes to hardware.

[thatguy713]

Bump

[Musiclab]

Did you see this thread http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=145670 ?