audiodg.exe Windows Audio Device Graph Isolation high CPU usage

Ah I see. Thank you so much for the help Carlo, and Dash too. After a reboot everything is working normally. I turned off two things from the boot submenu, but other than that turned everything back on and still saw much less usage. I'm going to bed now but if I observe any changes then I'll report back to the thread. If not, then it stayed fixed! Hope this helps anyone reading this in the future, and thanks again to those who helped me :)

Good Day Obi1baloney,

I appreciate your time getting back to this thread, for now kindly observe your device , the cleanboot process will disable all the services that are running in the background which are not needed , those services will automatically open when the system needs them.

Have a wonderful day ahead and stay safe.

Sincerely,

Carlo T.

Audio without dedicated hardware is all software based and will use quite a bit of the CPU. My guess is that 6-10% is relative to the CPU you have. Some audio features have to increase CPU usage as its not free.

I suppose that this could be the case. This is my first computer so I don't really have any other specs to compare it to, however I have a Ryzen 5 3600, and I thought that it was a fairly powerful CPU, I wouldn't have expected so much utilization from audio processing. Other people appear to have the same issue as me ( https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/report-an-issue/windows-11-and-7-1-surround-sound-high-cpu-usage/m-p/2895436 ) Also I would like to add, the last time I noticed the 3%ish usage was when I first built this PC, so I want to believe that this is an issue occurring in some process rather than everything working as intended.

In any case, I appreciate the response :)

Audio without dedicated hardware is all software based and will use quite a bit of the CPU. My guess is that 6-10% is relative to the CPU you have. Some audio features have to increase CPU usage as its not free.

Hardware card with dedicated processing should use less of the CPU but I don't know how much as its not worth it today in my opinion. Many years ago audio on the computer was so different that it was worth it. Motherboards normally had horrible audio until finally things changed.

Now if you have nothing in the background or foreground currently running then the idle usage might get to 0% for moments. I get down to 1% if I close some things in the task tray that I had in memory in the background. Anything you have in memory or running can be using CPU % including audio.

Also the software you're using to view the CPU % is going to be using some CPU as it has to continually redraw the UI and grab the new values.

"idles with 15 - 25% CPU usage" At this, likely something like indexing is running, etc. There's stuff that runs when idle until its all done until more changes. You can disable indexing, etc.

Its likely that everything is normal based on what you use and how you use it. When you play a game, Windows shuts it all down to maximize the hardware for the game as much as possible. Stuff like audio will still use the same percentage though since the game is using it. Its just a normal thing. Most people do not concern themselves about it.

Good Day Obi1baloney,

My name is Carlo, I am also using Windows 11 pc and community member like you. Let us work together to sort this out.

Here's the steps you can try.

-Go to Settings

-Click Sysstem

-Click Troubleshooter then Additional troubleshooter.

-Look for Playing Audio and run the troubleshooter.

-Go to Device Manager

-Expand the Sound and Video Game Controllers

-Look for Audio driver that was installed

-Right click and Update

-Look for "Browse my computer for driver

-Let me pick drivers available drivers

-Choose an old driver and use it.

-Go to Control Panel

-In Control Panel, select Large icons from the View by drop down menu.

-Select Sound.

-Select the Playback tab

-Right click the Speakers and click Enable.

-Right-click it again and select Set as Default Device.

-Right click Speakers and click Properties.

-Click the Levels tab, then drag the volume slider towards the largest value.

-Click on Advance Tab

-Uncheck the box to "Allow Application to take exclusive controls on this device"

-Click OK.

Restart your computer using cleanboot and check the usage.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-t...

If issue persist, let's download the updated driver

What is the exact model of your computer?

To check the system model proceed with these steps.

-Press Windows key + R

-Type msinfo32 and hit enter.

-Look for the System Model and manufacturer post it here.

I hope the information above helps. Please let me know how it goes.

Have a wonderful day ahead and stay safe.

Sincerely,

Carlo T.