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Sound ends up stuttering and popping
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 11:38 pm
by Ferno
Win98
SBLive 5.1 (using WDM drivers)
512MB
XP 2000+
Asus A7V333
Listenting to winamp for a while. i stop playback to watch a flash flick. go back to winamp. i find the sound to pop. kind of sounds like ten pulses a second. just pop pop pop. it also happens in d3. heavy sound load and d3 stutters.
what's goin on?
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 12:42 am
by Mr. Perfect
I've got the SB LIve(not 5.1) on a A7V333 and I've never noticed a poping. I use the Creative drivers, but choose for it to install only the drivers, nothign else. You didn't install the live ware crap did you?
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 12:59 am
by Ferno
only thing I installed other than drivers was the mixer to control the 5.1 part of the soundcard.
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 11:31 am
by Ferno
no one knows?
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 11:34 am
by DCrazy
Win 98... I'm guessing system load becomes too heavy and the sound buffer suffers. Win 98 = memory leak heaven, and unline NT-based OS's, the leaks aren't cleaned when the owner process terminates.
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 1:52 pm
by Mobius
This is classic BS Live! behaviour. Try reducing PCI Latency in BIOS. Move card to another PCI slot.
Better yet - remove it - pound with 2lb hammer - install Turtle Beach Santa Cruz!
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 4:08 pm
by Arch
Mobi, you don't want to reduce the PCI Latency, you want to increase it so the soundcard can hold onto the bus longer. A PCI Latency of 64, or 128 is recommended.
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 5:44 pm
by Mobius
OOPS. OK. What he said!
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 10:09 pm
by Tyranny
Mobi
- *insert foot here*
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 10:14 pm
by Ferno
Thanks arch. I'll try that.
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 12:23 am
by Ferno
seemed to work so far...
EDIT: or not. still suffers slowdowns under load. bleh.
gonna blow this crap away. *sigh*
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 6:52 am
by BUBBALOU
BTW
Creative WDM drivers was a big NO NO to put on 98 Machine!
that devloader drove me NUTZ
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 7:06 pm
by MD-2389
Mobius, that was an issue with an older VIA chipset to begin with. (KT133A with the 686B southbridge to be exact) When I ran my A7V classic (KT133 chipset, 686A southbridge), my SB Live NEVER clicked, popped, or paused on anything but poorly encoded mp3s done by morons that shouldn't even be using a computer to begin with. I have that same card stuck in a system with a K6-450 on a motherboard with an ALI Alladin V chipset and it works like it did on the A7V, and the K6-2 350 system it was in before that. Next time, do a little research before spouting off BS.
Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 1:17 am
by Jeff250
Haha I once downloaded an MP3 and heard people signing on and off of AIM. Didn't strike me as odd until I noticed no one was signing on and off AIM.