Crackling sound

I just installed everything from Komplete 13 and am experiencing issues with a number of the plugins. Any time sound is played through Kontakt, especially drums, there is a constant crackling sound that I can't seem to get rid of. The same thing happens with some of the more complex patches on Guitar Rig 6 and Absynth 5. The CPU indicator is sometimes maxing out, which doesn't make sense as it more than meets the requirements. In the Kontakt settings it is set to use 8 cores. There is no clipping occurring so it's not that either. I followed the troubleshooting guide and turned up my latency, which reduced some of the crackling and stopped Kontakt and GR6 from completely dropping out, but the crackling persists. Everything is updated to the latest version and I don't have this issue with any VST outside of the Komplete 13 bundle.

I'm using Cakewalk.

My specs:
i7 9700k
RTX 2080
32GB RAM
Z390 MB

Plugins are all installed on a M2 SSD
Libraries installed on a 7200 HDD

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

Using any antivirus? Make sure to set up rules to NOT scan any folders/drives that contain all the samples.

 

No, antivirus is turned off, but I seem to have worked out a solution. I changed my power settings to high performance mode as well as some other tweaks in the power settings and I no longer hear any crackling.

Thanks for replying!

 

Yep, gotta be on High Performance. Might also want to enable the hidden Ultimate Performance power plan.

https://www.howtogeek.com/368781/how-to-enable-ultimate-performance-power-plan-in-windows-10/

 

Man! You are the f*****g guy! I've been tortured with this issue for more than a year (in my case, specially with Arturia Solina and some NI plugins as RAUM).
I was really planing to change my Focusrite Scarlett, as I have concluded that the problem was a conflict on this and my Radeon RX580 GPU. How could it be a so simple solution!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!