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Soundcard Stuttering Problems
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Posted by: Darky!
After a year of having my sound cut out whenever it wants too, I decided to put my old SB Live! 5.1 card back in and disabled my onboard sound.
However, now I'm experiencing a problem I've never had before: My sound with "stutter" every so often, maybe for .2 seconds, and quite often when the processor is under heavy load ( e.g. running World of Warcraft with Winamp in the background ).
Apparently however, when talking about the problem infront of my friends, one of them has the exact same problem, with a similar card (His is branded 5.1 Digital, as it came from a Dell)
It's really rather hard to put into words unless you witness it yourself, so I'll see if I can capture it with sound recorder and post the file.
Any suggestions? Solutions?
I completely uninstalled the Nvidia sound drivers before installing my old card and drivers, tried messing with winamp and soundcard settings, and I just can't seem to find a solution.
Specs:
AMD XP 2700+
ASUS A7N8X Deluxe
Sound Blaster Live! 5.1
EDIT: Woops, someone move this to hardware please.
Posted by: Darky!
After doing some research, I've solved this problem by changing the ACPI settings of the computer from "Uniprocessor ACPI PC" to "Advanced configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) PC".
However, when attempting this change on my friend’s computer, windows took roughly 5 minutes to load, instead of his proud 20 seconds. His computer was also sluggish and took quite a while to load anything. Eventually, after trying to change the ACPI settings back, I discovered that all the ACPI settings had been removed, except for the one it was currently set to, and "Standard PC".
Shortly after, it blue screened, and would not boot to windows, even through safe boot. Eventually we did a dirty install of windows.
This leads me to my next question:
What adverse effects does changing the ACPI settings have?
I haven't noticed any slowdowns yet and the sound no longer stutters, however my friends computer, which is nearly identical to mine in every aspect because unusable when attempting the same fix.
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