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How To Diagnose and Fix High DPC Latency in Windows

A diagram titled 'DPC Latency — How To Diagnose & Fix' showing the process flow from 'Hardware Interrupt' through 'ISR' and 'DPC' to 'App Thread' and 'Audio Buffer'.

A Windows PC can look seemingly fine and yet still have some nagging issues. Your CPU usage may be low, your GPU may be running well, your gaming performance may be fine, and yet you may still get random audio crackles, mouse hitches, USB audio dropouts, or short system-wide freezes that seem to come out of nowhere. One possible culprit is high DPC latency. This is one of those technical problems that sounds obscure at first, but once you understand the gist of it, it becomes much easier to diagnose properly. More importantly, it is also one of those problems […]

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