Audio and Sound glitches, stutter, freezes

[PaySo13]

I am experiencing an interrmittent problem in Vista 64.

When i am watching a film (normally via Videolan player) or gaming online I experience occassional second/two second long glitches where the sound and video of the media i am watching freezes for a split second.

This causes a buzzing sound (presumably this is the audio stuttering).

It isn't lag and the play back is not constantly choppy. The files (gaming and video) are played from my hard drives not my DVD drive.

My system setup is as follows:

Akasa Eclipse case w/ 2 x Nexus 120mm fans
E6750 w/ Scythe Ninja cooler and Nexus 120mm fan
Gigabyte P35 DS3 mobo
OCZ Vista gold 4GB (2 x 2GB) PC26400 DDR2 RAM
XFX 8800GT GPU w/ Arctic Cooling Accelero 1 rev 2 (Turbo module attached)
Samsung 203B DVD
Corsair 620w Modular PSU
Terratec Phase 28 Sound card

My OS is on a 250GB Seagate SATA II HDD and i have various other HDD as storage.

Any help would be gratefully accepted as it is driving me nuts. I have spent a lot of money on this new rig and am pretty tempted to go back to XP...

I have the latest drivers for everything also.

Thanks

 

[Maxighb]

You have a powerfull machine.. that's not the problem.
Is your antivirus scanning or what is the configuration of it?
Is your Bios updated? Is your sound (and other)driver(s) updated?
Did you check your task manager CPU/Memory etc... use?
Check Control Panel/ performance Information and Tools/ this will help you alot

 

[Dwarf]

I don't know about online gaming as I have never done it, but the following may help your problems with the Videolan player. What are the cache settings for this program? If they are set too high, you may experience delays before playback begins, however once started playback should be able to continue without a break. If, however, the cache is set at too low a value, then it is possible that the cache may be emptied quicker than it can be filled. This can lead to pauses whilst the cache is being refilled. The rate of fill and emptying of the cache depends on the content of the video. It is all about choosing a good compromise for the settings of the cache. This is something that you can control. What you can't control is the Internet. All it needs is for 1 server on the path between you and the data source to go down, and your system and the Internet have to find an alternative route between it and the data source. This can occasionally cause pauses in the transfer of certain files. Setting a suitable cache size can help reduce, but not totally eliminate, this sort of problem.
Dwarf

 

[Jaypoc]

Interesting. I have been experiencing somewhat of the same thing, though not limited to video playback. I can be listening to music (MP3s), I can just be surfing the web. I also get an occaisional studder where it seems like the PC has frozen (Sound studders/Mouse won't move/etc..) then resumes normally. I also have a pretty beefy system: E8500 (Core 2 Duo 3.16Ghz) Gigabyte P45 Motherboard 4GB (2x2GB) G.Skill 1066 DDR2 Memory Gigabyte GeForce 9600 GT 256bit 512MB 80GB (forget brand) SATA HDD (Primary OS Drive) / 1TB Samsung SATA HDD (Storage/Backup) The other recommendations are very good however. I figured I would add to it since our systems specs/manuf. are somewhat similar. I intend on monitoring mine more and trying to identify what I'm doing at the time, or figure out the frequency the issue is occurring.

 

[astana]

I have windows vista home basic and a similar thing happens. it came pre-installed on a 2GHz celeron laptop and whenever i play songs in media player at exactly the same time from the end of a song (which seems to change from one day to the next, but today is 1m14s), it jerks or judders. can anyone help. it happens on every song, but if i play the songs singly i.e one at a time, it doesn't do it. it only occurs when multiple tracks are added to the play list. Please help me as i am going off my head.