From my experience, sound delay can be caused by extreme load of resources to the processor or sound driver. Or driver incompatible from hardware being too old (Eg Win7 to Win10) with no new driver available for Win 10. There are instances that Win 10 can detect the card & install driver for it, but there is no sound or weird audio delay/ cracking/ etc. And using old Win 7/8 driver can solve this.

The other problem is too many video/sound codecs installed inside. You may have Klite/ VLC/ etc... All of them might crash into each other at some time. Games have their own sound codec that might cause the same problem.

One way is to disable all start ups in task manager. Restart pc. Then run the apps that might cause the issue. If it does not happen, then one of the start up that is managing the audio is causing this.

The other is removing all 3rd party audio/video codec and leave to windows default.