Windows 11 Causing Major Audio Issues

Question

Ever since y'all automatically installed Windows 11 when I tried to shutdown and update my PC I have had major audio issues. There is a clear audio disconnect sound and then when it reconnects in the 1-2 second span, Everything after is robotic and glitched out. Resets my voice monitoring settings and screws it all up. I have NEVER had this problem on windows 10 in my years of using it. Give me back Windows 10 or fix Windows 11. Its trash and nobody wants it for a good reason. Stop trying to trick people into updating to it as well. Nobody wants it. I have tried reinstalling drivers, selecting correct devices etc. Nothing has worked. So if you could, Fix your glitchy operating system or give me a way to get my Windows 10 back. I never wanted to update it, y'all just did that automatically when I was going to sleep one night. Shady shady business practices here.

Answer 1

Ever since y'all automatically installed Windows 11 when I tried to shutdown and update my PC I have had major audio issues. There is a clear audio disconnect sound and then when it reconnects in the 1-2 second span, Everything after is robotic and glitched out. Resets my voice monitoring settings and screws it all up. I have NEVER had this problem on windows 10 in my years of using it. Give me back Windows 10 or fix Windows 11. Its trash and nobody wants it for a good reason. Stop trying to trick people into updating to it as well. Nobody wants it. I have tried reinstalling drivers, selecting correct devices etc. Nothing has worked. So if you could, Fix your glitchy operating system or give me a way to get my Windows 10 back. I never wanted to update it, y'all just did that automatically when I was going to sleep one night. Shady shady business practices here.

Hi I'm having a similar problem. I've spent the last 6 weeks with my (new) Laptop aftercare team and audio engineer trying to rectify a glitchy audio and white noise problem. We have exhausted absolutely every single possibility. In the end, by running a bespoke programme underneath while recording, we were able to establish that it's some of the Windows 11 drivers causing this and a red statement told me that my 32 Ram computer was unable to handle audio recordings. The drivers appear to be spiking massively and then, in a bid to calm things down quickly, are shuddering to a stop which is causing glitches and drop outs in the recordings. I'm having to bin my new laptop and consider a move to Apple which I did not want to do. Very time consuming this has been and very disappointing indeed. Unfortunately this makes Windows 11 currently insuitable for me for professional recording.

Answer 2

dont push your shitt* troubleshooters, they dont even work

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Answer 3

Has anyone found a solution for this yet? Almost all of the laptops at my work that are on Windows 11 are having this issue and we can't find a solid solution other than to disable the computer's speakers in BIOS.

I'm an IT supervisor for a top 500 company and have a 90% work from home workforce. this has been a major issue for us as well. we didn't seem to have all the audio issues (as mentioned above) before going to windows 11. I like windows 11 for the most part but the audio performance has suffered in a major way. Really wish Microsoft would get this worked out. I don't see much in way of resolution except "run the troubleshooter" which does little to nothing to fix OUR issues.

Answer 4

I got a new Dell G15 laptop last December. I've been consistently having issues with Audio here on Windows 11. It will work for a while but eventually starts to cut out. At first I thought that this OS was just bad at Bluetooth so I bought a USB Headset thinking that would do the trick. It didn't. The only audio device I can seem to rely on is the built-in Realtek. Anything else seems to cut out or sound like static after a time. I haven't been able to find a trigger for the problems yet.

I've worked in Tech for 25 years and have a lot of experience and I've narrowed this down with all my testing and process of elimination to simply be the OS itself.

MS needs to fix this. Don't tell poeple to update drivers because they have already desperately done all of that. Don't tell people to run your "troubleshooters" which are not comprehensive. Yes, I do have it "plugged in".

Please fix this. I'm going to downgrade to Windows 10 this weekend until it is fixed. I'm tired of rebooting this OS 4 - 5 times a day.

Chad I 100% agree. Updating the drivers does not help and reverting back to an older version does not work either. It is 100% a Windows 11 issue and its pretty frustrating that Microsoft is not getting involved. We reverted some of our machines back to Windows 10 and the sound is working just fine now...but this should not be a permanent solution.

Answer 5

I got a new Dell G15 laptop last December. I've been consistently having issues with Audio here on Windows 11. It will work for a while but eventually starts to cut out. At first I thought that this OS was just bad at Bluetooth so I bought a USB Headset thinking that would do the trick. It didn't. The only audio device I can seem to rely on is the built-in Realtek. Anything else seems to cut out or sound like static after a time. I haven't been able to find a trigger for the problems yet.

I've worked in Tech for 25 years and have a lot of experience and I've narrowed this down with all my testing and process of elimination to simply be the OS itself.

MS needs to fix this. Don't tell poeple to update drivers because they have already desperately done all of that. Don't tell people to run your "troubleshooters" which are not comprehensive. Yes, I do have it "plugged in".

Please fix this. I'm going to downgrade to Windows 10 this weekend until it is fixed. I'm tired of rebooting this OS 4 - 5 times a day.