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[Jake Carter]

Honestly, the way people frame this debate usually misses the practical hierarchy, so let me lay it out. ASIO still wins on absolute latency because it bypasses the entire Windows audio stack and talks directly to your hardware’s DMA buffer—there’s genuinely no OS-level mixing happening. WASAPI Exclusive Mode is the closest Windows-native alternative, but you have to remember it still comes in two flavors: buffered (threaded) and event-driven. If you’re running exclusive mode in buffered mode, you’re basically handing control back to

[Jake Carter]

Followed the advice, framedrops stopped after changing that bios setting, thanks guys! Turns out it was just the C-state thing you all kept mentioning — set it to disabled, bumped the power plan to max performance, and boom, stable 144 like it never was. Thought I was about to have to drop $800 on a new CPU or something, but apparently it was just sitting in my BIOS this whole time. Guess I don’t need all that DDoS mitigation math after all lol. Appreciate it, guys.

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