Hi Mike, can you provide any suggestions of how to reduce/eliminate freeze problems and improve pc performance?  I don't think stepping back to Windows 8 would be easy or necessarily productive but I'm willing to try about anything that has worked for others.  Maybe you know of a utility that would optimize the system.  I've used IO-Bit products, CCleaner, MalwareBytes from time to time.  Avast anti-virus probably knocks the performance way down but have to put up with that or something these days.

SDR Console rev. I'm using is v3.0.19.  Any idea what it means when the volume slider track is red?  Seems to occur in any FM mode regardless of the level set in the App volume and device preferences.  Still red with SDRC stopped.

I use Thunderbird for email and Firefox for the browser but it is usually not running.  If I play a solitaire game with SDR Console running the audio gets badly chopped up.

I have set SDRC to a higher priority.  Maybe that will help.  Also increased to max the program audio buffers with no noticeable difference.

There are 291 services - not all are running or enabled.  I wish there was a "removal tool" to clean some of that junk up.

Maybe the sdrplay_apiService.exe causes problems.  I have no way to gauge that.

Maybe its time for a Win10 reset. 😮 Yikes!  I hate to even think of it.  It was a royal pain getting the Microsoft validation to go through after Win7 then to get the sound working.  Most performance gained will be drained relatively fast according to various web references.

Any comments are welcome.

Dale WB8CJW

P.S. After bumping up the SDR Console and the SDRPlay API priority I have had no program crash or audio dropouts even running my Spider Solitaire and doing multiple shuffles that really hacked things up.