Sound skipping with Pulseaudio on Linux Mint 18

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I need help getting my sound to not skip every other 5 seconds or so.

I already tried the solution on the arch wiki here and my lfe remixing setting was already set to yes when I went to change it.
Pulseaudio skips or crackling

when I open the pulseaudio mixer gui I get the message "Establishing connection to pulseaudio please" wait every time my audio goes away.

I think the pulse server is crashing but I don't know how to get any useful information besides from the syslog which outputs this.

Aug 2 16:29:29 ##### rtkit-daemon[6456]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Aug 2 16:29:29 ##### rtkit-daemon[6456]: Supervising 0 threads of 0 processes of 1 users.
Aug 2 16:29:29 ##### rtkit-daemon[6456]: Successfully made thread 6597 of process 5857 (n/a) owned by '1000' RT at priority 5.

I already tried the -v argument but pulse does not output any errors.

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Off the top of my head I've no idea. Have you made sure the system ia fully up to date (optional updates included?)

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Disable HDMI audio output

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Yes I have applied all system updates.

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*one quick google search later * Is there a way to do this without disabling kernel modules?

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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Examples#HDMI_output_configuration

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You can also change the buffer size/time in the pulse configs.