Can GPU cause sound lags?

[akstylish]

Most of the games I play have occasional sound lags. It doesn't stop me from playing them but it's annoying nonetheless. The sound card is realtek onboard audio, which I had on other laptops and had no problem with. If GPU is indeed the cause, is it because it's relatively new and unstable?

 

[Raynor.Z]

Because everything on laptop is mostly integrated, it could be because of GPU (more likely because of GPU drivers). First thing to try out should be updating both sound and video drivers to see if it makes any difference.

 

[akstylish]

Already did.

 

[Raynor.Z]

Then try to kill every unnessecary background process (including startup items) because on average computer there's a lot of stuff back there that shouldn't be running at all.

 

[akstylish]

The only process taking significant amount of resource is avg antivirus.

 

[Raynor.Z]

And the problem will preserve when you disable its real-time component?

 

[akstylish]

Yes, although it seems to lag a bit less.