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Help with clicks and pops on PC audio

I have used a Squeezebox Touch wirelessly with good success playing files on my laptop at 16/44, but with too many dropouts for higher-res files to be usable. Recently tried to go from laptop to DAC via USB to experiment with hi-res files, using JRivers as my media player. Files play, but with clicks and pops similar to a dirty LP. This occurs whether I'm going straight to my W4S DAC1 or ADL Esprit, and changing USB cables does not help. I'm wondering if the JRivers player isn't set up correctly? I was reading the Audiophileo site and note that clicks and pops can occur if hardware buffering isn't correctly set, but I don't really understand that or know whether that might be a clue to my problem. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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g19276
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i began to notice some drop outs with my dac, i found in the driver, i could set the playback priority "critical" and buffer size which i believe i now have at 4096kb (4mb) and that seems to have cleared things up for me. i only noticed the drop-outs when i was playing hires downloads.

also, here's a great website to help you tweak your windows settings: http://www.blackviper.com/service-configurations/black-vipers-windows-7-service-pack-1-service-configurations/

this link is for win7 but there's other OS's listed.
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