Cracking sound problem in some games on ASUS ROG Strix B650E-E motherboard

[Orodruin]

Hello;

My system components are as follows:

Asus ROG Strix B650E-E Motherboard
AMD Ryzen 7900X3D Processor
Gskil 2x24GB 6400MHZ CL32 EXPO RGB Ram (F5-6400J3239F24GX2-TZ5NR)
ASUS TUF RTX 4070TI Super Graphics card
XPG ADATA 3x2TB SX8100 NVMe SSD
XPG ADATA 2X2TB SX8200 PRO Nvme SSD
Corsair Shift 1000Watt 80+ Gold PSU
Corsair 5000D Case

Now let's get to the problem;

The sound card on this motherboard is ALC4080.
As far as I know, this card uses the USB interface.
A fix has been released because there was crackling in the Optical audio output in the past.
I sometimes get crackling noises when using the sound card on this motherboard.
Everything is normal when listening to music while watching a movie.
When it comes to games, things change. While playing the Air Conflicts Airplane game or Age of Empires 4, there is crackling in the sound, especially during intense battle scenes. It looks like the sound card is experiencing a bottleneck on the USB bus. I don't know if I explained it correctly.
There is no problem in games such as AC Origins, Forza Horizon, Cyberpunk.

I installed the latest driver package shared in the link below.
I installed clean Windows. I even tried it a few times with different speakers, but the result is always the same.

What exactly causes this?
Will there be an update regarding this?
I am curious.

Driver version I use:

- Realtek USB Audio Drivers (UAD - ASUS ROG SS3-DTS) :

Drivers : 6.3.9600.2391 WHQL [13/06/2024]
SS3-SSVM Extension Driver : 1.3.18.0 WHQL [13/07/2022]
SS3-SSVM VAD Media Driver : 1.0.3.0 WHQL [07/06/2022]
SS3 APO AudioProcessingObject Driver : 3.7.2.0 WHQL [20/06/2024]
DTS APO4x Extension Driver : 1.14.0.0 WHQL [17/12/2023]
Download : Link

I would be very happy if you could give me an idea about this problem.

[Orodruin]

By the way, I am experiencing this problem with normal audio output (Analog). It's not optical output.

[Griom]

I have experienced something similar where YouTube seek/skip would pop, loud boom on boot and such things would happen. Also using analog output ( 3 x 3.5mm jacks for 5.1 surround speakers ) Try step 9 from here, which is the only thing that helped in my case:

https://old.reddit.com/r/ASUS/comments/sf4tau/fixes_for_realtek_alc4080_sound_problems_on_asus/

If the reddit link doesn't work for some reason and for future references:

Enable Stereo mix in the recording devices on Windows and set it to listen to your default playback device (or explicitly select the device that uses those analog outputs).

Image guide from that same reddit thread: