Questions tagged [dpc]
DPC (Deferred Procedure Call) is a mechanism adopted by Microsoft which allows high-priority tasks on Windows (such as an interrupt handler) to defer required but lower-priority tasks for later execution.
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Fix high DPC latency for stornvme.sys (NVM Express controller)
I have a PC with Windows 11 (I had windows 10 and updated when it came out the 11) and it frequently get unusable because of very long freezes. After investigating for a while it seems that the ...
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Dell XPS Audio Dropouts - ACPI.sys Latency
As documented across the internet, many users of Dell XPS laptops encounter a problem of high DPC latency, which manifests as clicks & popping sounds when audio is played on the system. For these ...
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DPC WATCHDOG VIOLATION - how to identify the issue
My laptop keeps crashing after playing the new COD: Warzone and it keeps reporting the DPC Watchdog Violation error. I'm using Windows 10 and I've never experienced this issue before. I'm not quite ...
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What might be causing periodic audio pops and crackles in certain Windows 10 applications?
I have an Intel NUC10i7FNH computer, purchased in December 2019 and running Windows 10. Within the last year, it has started to produce audio crackles and pops during many different types of audio ...
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DPC WatchDog Violation after Selenium is ran with python
I have recently decided to move my web automation scripts from Google Colab where they worked fine, to my own PC. After getting the correct webdriver(for chrome, version 89), I tried launching a ...
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I keep getting the DPC_Watchdog_Violation BSoD and I don't know how to fix it. (Windows 10)
I keep getting the DPC_Watchdog_Violation BSOD (Bugcheck: 133)
I tried all of these solutions:
Updating Drivers
chkdsk C: /f in cmd
chkdsk C: /r in cmd
sfc /scannow in cmd
Resetting BIOS
Full system ...
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System interrupts/DPC/ISR appear to be causing sound distortion in Windows 10. How can I determine the root cause?
I am having problems with audio distortion in Windows 10, but it varies in severity between apps. Foobar2000 is very heavily distorted on most tracks, with buzzes and skips. Windows Media Player also ...
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BSOD with DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION
For the last week I'm suffering from a hand and BSOD in Windows 10 Pro. I didn't changed hardware and I cannot remember any update, but it is possible Windows updated my computer while shutting down (...
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DPC Latency issues caused by storport.sys
I have been having an issue with DPC latency. I have spent hours trying to figure out how to fix it, but I have failed to find a solution.
To begin, I first noticed this issue after I cloned my ...
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Windows 10 audio stuttering/cracking issues
I know there are quite a few threads open for this issue but after hours of research and trial and error I haven't found a solution yet. Plus I'm not that much into the internals of Windows and can't ...
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DPC latency issue
My Asus ROG laptop (i7-6700HQ, GTX960M, 8GB DDR4, 1TB Samsung 850Evo SATA SSD, Win10 64bit) has been painfully slow, sometimes at its worst even slightly moving the mouse takes 5 seconds. Playing ...
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High DPC latency Windows 10, unable to fix
Edit: I am still experiencing this issue. ndis.sys is causing issues and I have not been able to resolve it. I am at a loss of what to do. I have tried reinstalling windows AGAIN, reinstalling drivers ...
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What is DPC Watchdog?
OK, so DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION is a common Error code after a BSOD. I'd like to know -
What is a DPC Watchdog? I mean, what is meant by that?
What does it do in the Windows system? And how does it ...
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NDIS.SYS driver very high latency in Windows 10
I have upgraded my computer from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10. The installation went well, no problem occurred.
My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3H. After the install, I updated the Realtek drivers ...
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Fresh Win7 installed with SSD. All known drivers updated - high hard pagefaults
I previously had a thread with nasty pagefaults where the main culprit was my HDD was actually failing. I received a new SSD this week and reinstalled Windows 7, since then things have been insanely ...
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