TL; DR
Connect your sound card to a USB hub with an external power supply.
The long story
A few months ago I changed my computer. The new one is high-end: it has a Ryzen 9 7950X processor and an Nvidia RTX 3080 GPU. Finding a motherboard was not easy: all the models compatible with that processor have a lot of compromises (or prohibitive costs). Eventually, I took an ASRock B650 PG Lightning with its pros and cons.
Everything is powered by a BitFenix Whisper 850W PSU, which has good reviews on many specialized sites.
The system is very stable with Linux: it can sustain several Firefox builds consecutively for hours without batting an eye.
Sadly, I cannot say the same for Windows, which I use almost exclusively for playing games. I often had blue screens of death with the DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION
error.
When I analyzed the dumps with WinDBG, I noticed the Komplete Audio 6 driver was always in the stack trace when this happened.
I tried to contact Native Instruments for help, but they were super unhelpful. I even asked them to make the driver open source since it is an old product they do not care about anymore. … [Leggi il resto]