Solved Sound stutter & game lag

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g30w72

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Hi all,

I recently did a system re-build, as per my specs. I've been having awful crackling and sound stutters which sometimes appear to be causing lag spikes in games too. (Having said that, I get it even when doing simple taks like listening to music or watching movies on iTunes/Windows Media Player.)

I've done all the usual things like updating to the latest BIOS/drivers, but still it won't go away. I've moved the sound card to another PCI slot and checked there's no IRQ conflicts too...

Can anyone help please?

G.
 
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My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    Intel E8400
    Motherboard
    Asus P5KC
    Memory
    4GB kit Crucial Ballistix DDR3 PC3-10600
    Graphics card(s)
    BFG GTX 285 OCX
    Sound Card
    Creative Sound Blaster XtremeGamer Fatality Pro Series
    Monitor(s) Displays
    LG W2452T & ACER AL1716
    Screen Resolution
    1900 x 1200 & 1280 x 1024
    Hard Drives
    2 x Western Digital WD6400AAKS 640GB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 16MB Cache. RAID (0) setup
    PSU
    Corsair HX 620W modular
    Case
    Antec
    Cooling
    3 120mm fans
    Mouse
    Razer Copperhead
    Keyboard
    Microsoft Comfort
    Internet Speed
    14mb
Possibly reducing the sound acceleration would help. On board sound? Usually notorious for crackling. Perhaps a separate sound card is in order?
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Cyberpower
    CPU
    AMD Phenom X4 9850
    Motherboard
    MSI K9N SLI V2
    Memory
    8 GIG DDR 800
    Graphics card(s)
    EVGA 9800 GT 512mb
    Sound Card
    onboard
    Monitor(s) Displays
    SyncMaster 220wm
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    Hitachi something or other 500 gigs
    PSU
    650 watts
avgwarhawk said:
Possibly reducing the sound acceleration would help. On board sound? Usually notorious for crackling. Perhaps a separate sound card is in order?
Click to expand...

The op has mentioned he is using an add on card for the sound.

As for the sound stuttering, it sounds as this is connected to your lag. It suggest in other words as if the sound is not the cause of the problem but a symptom.

Have a look in your reliablity and performance and also the event viewer for any signs of the computer getting bogged down.

Also look in task manager when it is happening to find out what is hogging the processing power.

It may be down to codecs or video drivers, I would look there first.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Self Built
    CPU
    I5 3570K
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte Z77-DS3H
    Memory
    4 x 4GB corsair ballistix sport DDR3 1600 Mhz
    Graphics card(s)
    Gigabyte Geforce GTX 660 TI
    Sound Card
    creative x-fi
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Primary CiBox 22" Widescreen LCD ,Secondary Dell 22" Widescreen
    Screen Resolution
    Both 1680 x 1050
    Hard Drives
    2 x 500G HD (SATA) 1 x 2TB USB
    PSU
    Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Complient PSU
    Case
    Antec 900 Ultimate Gaming Case
    Cooling
    3 x 80mm tri led front, 120mm side 120mm back, 200mm top
    Mouse
    Technika TKOPTM2
    Keyboard
    Logik
    Internet Speed
    288 / 4000
    Other Info
    Creative Inspire 7.1 T7900 Speakers Trust Graphics Tablet
Sorted. Installed the RAID driver just released by JMICRON and it's running well...
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    Intel E8400
    Motherboard
    Asus P5KC
    Memory
    4GB kit Crucial Ballistix DDR3 PC3-10600
    Graphics card(s)
    BFG GTX 285 OCX
    Sound Card
    Creative Sound Blaster XtremeGamer Fatality Pro Series
    Monitor(s) Displays
    LG W2452T & ACER AL1716
    Screen Resolution
    1900 x 1200 & 1280 x 1024
    Hard Drives
    2 x Western Digital WD6400AAKS 640GB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 16MB Cache. RAID (0) setup
    PSU
    Corsair HX 620W modular
    Case
    Antec
    Cooling
    3 120mm fans
    Mouse
    Razer Copperhead
    Keyboard
    Microsoft Comfort
    Internet Speed
    14mb
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