Choppy Audio

have you tried a different media player? i noticed the equalizer is open, but i can't tell if it's activated. the eq will certianly chew cpu cycles. in fact, i seem to recall playing with an eq in some media player and the result was choppy audio.

 

The EQ has been open since 1997 when I first started using winamp.


My very first thought was to reinstall the winamp, but I soon realized that it is winamp, windows media player, itunes, any DVD software, even warning dings and shit from windows that chop.

Reinstalled sound driver to no avail.
Can't find the process that is doing it.

I'm ready to blow the thing up and start over.

 

so in your "without audio" post, what the hell is taking 13% of your cpu cycles and peaking up to like 40%?

go to the "processes" list and add the column "cpu time" (view->select columns...) that should be the total amount of time each process has grabbed the cpu. i'm thinking you've got something issue with some driver somewhere that's crapping out and chewing your cycles.

 

Nothing looks out of the ordinary. I googled them all.

 

Your process list shows 4% total utilization. Get a process list screenshot when the sound is playing and choppy.

Actually, don't bother. Given the range of software that causes the same problem, you've got an audio driver issue. Why not post the spec of machine, the sound card, and the driver version currently in use (from device manager, not the one you installed from the Gateway site).

 

just to rule them out, i'd try killing bifgix, syntpenh, and wltray. i'm sure you'll lose some functionaly, but if the machine performs any better when one of these dies, you know where you can start looking.

if it's not one of these, it sounds like a driver problem.

 

Some other things to try

Defrag Harddrive - the file could be broken up and not contiguous.
Increase SwapFile Size or change Swapfile to its own partition or separate drive if you have multiple HD in your PC. (thats faster)

Check the Bitrate- If it is a downloaded file and the bit rate is astronomical such as 512kbps it is requesting too much info for the processor. 44kbps - 128 is sufficient for CD Quality. (Besides most dogs cannot differentiate between 128 & 512 rates)

Just my 2 cents