I've been having issues since February's windows updates with crackling sound typically in DirectX games and some video playback such as Steam. In an effort to isolate the problem out I've gone over all my drivers and dust contamination yet again this month. I removed both the 3.51 and 4.01 Klite packs and the VLC player I had been using. Registry cleaned and defragged.
My sound card is an Audigy Fatality champion series with the front panel breakout box.
June 3 2009 driver for it #6.0.1.1373
Dxdiag attached as well.
Next on my list is to see if maybe there's new drivers for my tv tuner capture board which does have sound card resources apparently.
As a side note, I use Ventrilo daily. When ever I launch it after a fresh reboot and connect to a server it locks the PC up for like 90 seconds before behaving normally and displaying the MOTD. It's done this for maybe 6 months. Whenever I have bad game problems I can generally disconnect and reconnect from the vent server without that little annoyance. I want to lay the blame at DirectX, but I've tried several forced updates of it without any improvement.
Playing in the APB beta as well, and thru tips from those players disabled multimedia network throttling in the registry which improved in game performance there a ton.
I really do not want to reload this machine as it takes an eternity to get everything back the way I like it.
My sound card is an Audigy Fatality champion series with the front panel breakout box.
June 3 2009 driver for it #6.0.1.1373
Dxdiag attached as well.
Next on my list is to see if maybe there's new drivers for my tv tuner capture board which does have sound card resources apparently.
As a side note, I use Ventrilo daily. When ever I launch it after a fresh reboot and connect to a server it locks the PC up for like 90 seconds before behaving normally and displaying the MOTD. It's done this for maybe 6 months. Whenever I have bad game problems I can generally disconnect and reconnect from the vent server without that little annoyance. I want to lay the blame at DirectX, but I've tried several forced updates of it without any improvement.
Playing in the APB beta as well, and thru tips from those players disabled multimedia network throttling in the registry which improved in game performance there a ton.
I really do not want to reload this machine as it takes an eternity to get everything back the way I like it.
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- Homebrew
- CPU
- Intel Pentium D 3ghz
- Motherboard
- Intel D945GNT
- Memory
- 4x 1gb Crucial dimms
- Graphics card(s)
- EVGA nVidia 8800 GTS 512mb
- Sound Card
- Soundblaster Audigy Fatality Champion series w/ front panel
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Samsung Syncmaster 225BW
- Screen Resolution
- 16080x1050
- Hard Drives
- Seagate Sata's 750gb 250gb 250gb 250gb 120gb external 80gb usb 300gb usb 300gb usb 500gb esata
- PSU
- 1000w thermaltake
- Case
- Grey with a Dragon window :)
- Cooling
- 5x 6 inch case fans and 2 120mm psu fans
- Mouse
- Logitech G5
- Keyboard
- Logitech G15
- Internet Speed
- 16mbps down,/ 1mbps up Cable
- Other Info
- Logitech x-530 speakers Xbox Wireless controller