Stuttering computer after installing audigy!

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Ive got a amd 64 3500+, fx 5700, asus av8 mb, sata 300gb hd.1gb ram

I bought the computer recently without any soundcard as it has a 6 channel
audio on board. Ran hl2 really well. Now ive installed my old Audigy (1)
card and all my other games ie Far cry, bf1942 etc stutter like crazy. Even
on the lowest res with all the sound options turned down to the lowest they
will go! Bizzarly hl2 still runs without a problem.

What the hell is going on. Ive tried disabling the onboard sound in the bios
but still nothing gives. The games play but just keep jolting every 20 or 30
secs, what gives?
 
Geezer said:
Ive got a amd 64 3500+, fx 5700, asus av8 mb, sata 300gb hd.1gb ram

I bought the computer recently without any soundcard as it has a 6 channel
audio on board. Ran hl2 really well. Now ive installed my old Audigy (1)
card and all my other games ie Far cry, bf1942 etc stutter like crazy. Even
on the lowest res with all the sound options turned down to the lowest they
will go! Bizzarly hl2 still runs without a problem.

What the hell is going on. Ive tried disabling the onboard sound in the bios
but still nothing gives. The games play but just keep jolting every 20 or 30
secs, what gives?
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Did you disable the on-board sound in Device Manager?
 
bearman said:
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Did you disable the on-board sound in Device Manager?
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Not really sure what this looks like in device mgr ive got
a audio codecs
b legacy audio drivers
c media control devices
d creative sb audigy
e unimodem half duplex audio device
f video codecs


any thoughts?
 
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 00:15:05 -0000, "Geezer"

| > Did you disable the on-board sound in Device Manager?
| >
| > --
| > Bearman
| > If it's got tits, tires, tubes, or transistors, it's trouble.
| >
| >
| Not really sure what this looks like in device mgr ive got
| a audio codecs
| b legacy audio drivers
| c media control devices
| d creative sb audigy
| e unimodem half duplex audio device
| f video codecs
|
|
| any thoughts?
|

Actually the on-board audio drivers would show up in Device Manager,
but that's not the usual way to disable on-board sound. You'd
probably have to go into the BIOS to disable it. In mine, it's listed
under Integrated Peripherals.

Larc



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Ive got a amd 64 3500+, fx 5700, asus av8 mb, sata 300gb hd.1gb ram

I bought the computer recently without any soundcard as it has a 6 channel
audio on board. Ran hl2 really well. Now ive installed my old Audigy (1)
card and all my other games ie Far cry, bf1942 etc stutter like crazy. Even
on the lowest res with all the sound options turned down to the lowest they
will go! Bizzarly hl2 still runs without a problem.
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Try adjusting each games' sound settings.
Are you running new enough DirectX version?
Try updating sound card driver.

Adjust the PCI latency in bios- higher numbers. Try 80 or
96, or 64 first if it's only at 32 presently.

There's also a latency tweak tool or two or three out there
somewhere, LOL, I think it might be called "Ltycfg.exe".
Naw, that's not it... try this one:
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=951
What the hell is going on. Ive tried disabling the onboard sound in the bios
but still nothing gives. The games play but just keep jolting every 20 or 30
secs, what gives?
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You "tried" or you succeeded? If you're not using the
onboard sound anymore, keep it disabled. Once disabled in
the bios (and assuming the bios isn't buggy) it IS then
disabled, no further action should be needed in Device
Manager... though you might want to uninstall the driver
too.

Try another Via chipset (4in1) driver too.
 
Ive got a amd 64 3500+, fx 5700, asus av8 mb, sata 300gb hd.1gb ram

I bought the computer recently without any soundcard as it has a 6 channel
audio on board. Ran hl2 really well. Now ive installed my old Audigy (1)
card and all my other games ie Far cry, bf1942 etc stutter like crazy. Even
on the lowest res with all the sound options turned down to the lowest they
will go! Bizzarly hl2 still runs without a problem.

What the hell is going on. Ive tried disabling the onboard sound in the bios
but still nothing gives. The games play but just keep jolting every 20 or 30
secs, what gives?
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Remove the audigy.
 
theyak said:
Remove the audigy.
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But I thought the audigy would create more processor room! Thats the
whole reason i put the audigy in!

I have disabled the on board audio in the bios. But why does half life 2 run
perfectly well but everything else keep jamming up!
 
But I thought the audigy would create more processor room! Thats the
whole reason i put the audigy in!

I have disabled the on board audio in the bios. But why does half life 2 run
perfectly well but everything else keep jamming up!
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Have you tried moving it to different slots? My Audigy did get a bit
better away from the Video slot since it shared an IRQ with it if it
was next to it I think.

The main culprit with me was I had a Maxtor Promose controller card in
one of the slots and it seemed to cause stuttering in the sound. I
had to take it out and use the sata controller with some converters
and then all was well.

With the old nforce2 I did see a group of posters who insisted Asus
had a sound stuttering problem while others dismissed the idea and
various cures were posted - drivers and other things.
 
Conflict of IRQ?
Move your sound card to another PCI slot.
If it doesn't works, try to download the latest sound driver.
 
WebWalker said:
Conflict of IRQ?
Move your sound card to another PCI slot.
If it doesn't works, try to download the latest sound driver.
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Some good suggestions that I will try. But why would half life 2 be ok and a
game like say Battlefield 1942 and far cry stutter so badly even in the
lowest res with all the detail turned off!!!
 
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:25:28 -0000, "Geezer"

|
| | > Conflict of IRQ?
| > Move your sound card to another PCI slot.
| > If it doesn't works, try to download the latest sound driver.
| >
| > --
| > WebWalker
|
| Some good suggestions that I will try. But why would half life 2 be ok and a
| game like say Battlefield 1942 and far cry stutter so badly even in the
| lowest res with all the detail turned off!!!

Some functions may come into play with one game and not the other.
Creative may or may not have drivers that will support everything you
need for your particular computer configuration. My experience has
been that Creative's initial drivers for any given product are quite
good for computer needs at the time the product comes out. But
subsequent driver updates as OS changes are introduced (eg., WinXP
SP2) usually leave a lot to be desired. That's why I trashed my
Creative cards and moved on. It wasn't because they were bad cards,
but because Creative did not seem capable of writing updated drivers
to keep them working properly.

Somebody already suggested that you remove your Creative card and go
back to using onboard sound. If onboard sound supports your games,
that's probably the best way to go short of buying a new soundcard.

Larc



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Some good suggestions that I will try. But why would half life 2 be ok and a
game like say Battlefield 1942 and far cry stutter so badly even in the
lowest res with all the detail turned off!!!
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Because you're talking about graphics rather than sound?
One bears not on the other. HL2 is actually pretty well
designed in that it can benefit from fine-tuned,
high-performance systems but also run rather well scaled
back on an old 1GHz box with a GF4MX in it.
 
Larc said:
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:25:28 -0000, "Geezer"

|
| | > Conflict of IRQ?
| > Move your sound card to another PCI slot.
| > If it doesn't works, try to download the latest sound driver.
| >
| > --
| > WebWalker
|
| Some good suggestions that I will try. But why would half life 2 be ok and a
| game like say Battlefield 1942 and far cry stutter so badly even in the
| lowest res with all the detail turned off!!!

Some functions may come into play with one game and not the other.
Creative may or may not have drivers that will support everything you
need for your particular computer configuration. My experience has
been that Creative's initial drivers for any given product are quite
good for computer needs at the time the product comes out. But
subsequent driver updates as OS changes are introduced (eg., WinXP
SP2) usually leave a lot to be desired. That's why I trashed my
Creative cards and moved on. It wasn't because they were bad cards,
but because Creative did not seem capable of writing updated drivers
to keep them working properly.

Somebody already suggested that you remove your Creative card and go
back to using onboard sound. If onboard sound supports your games,
that's probably the best way to go short of buying a new soundcard.

Larc



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But wouldnt onboard sound `suck` processor power whereas the audigy does it
itself?
 
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 22:40:57 -0000, "Geezer"

| But wouldnt onboard sound `suck` processor power whereas the audigy does it
| itself?

Onboard sound usually pretty much handles its own processing. It's
memory that you have to be more concerned about. Soundcards have
their own memory, but onboard sound has to rely on assigned system
memory. You should be able to specify the amount in the BIOS.

Larc



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On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 22:40:57 -0000, "Geezer"

| But wouldnt onboard sound `suck` processor power whereas the audigy does it
| itself?

Onboard sound usually pretty much handles its own processing.
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No, typically they're soft-audio and use as much or more CPU
time than other alternatives.
It's
memory that you have to be more concerned about. Soundcards have
their own memory,
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No, they don't. Look at one, where are the memory modules?
There "could" be a buffer on the sound chip(set) but that
isn't typically referred to as memory and shouldn't be, as
it's not even remotely adequate for this discussion.
but onboard sound has to rely on assigned system
memory. You should be able to specify the amount in the BIOS.
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No, you're thinking of video maybe. At most a sound card
might have a midi waveset allocation, which is basically the
size of the file it loads, the profile for it's midi voices.
 
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