Evening all.
General enquiry really, and some troubleshooting.
Last few days/week or two my games have started to lock-up for a number of seconds, and it's becoming more and more common. I've been completely baffled as to what could be the cause, and after monitoring things like temps and GPU usage (9800GT 512MB), I can pretty much safely say that isn't the cause.
Same goes for my CPU (Athlon 64 X2 6000), the usage isn't going anywhere it hasn't before, so I can't really put the blame down the that.
The situation is like my internet is hanging for a few seconds ingame, but it's not that from what I can tell either.
The only thing I can pin it down to is my soundcard (Xonar DG) which has been the only change in my setup for quite a while.
Has anyone heard of something like this before? It's as if the 'card is struggling to render audio and is bottlenecking the system, hence holding it up and causing these "freezes".
Really baffled by it, as I'm really liking the audio quality of the DG, but wondering if I've just got a "naff" one or something else is going on?
Cheers.
General enquiry really, and some troubleshooting.
Last few days/week or two my games have started to lock-up for a number of seconds, and it's becoming more and more common. I've been completely baffled as to what could be the cause, and after monitoring things like temps and GPU usage (9800GT 512MB), I can pretty much safely say that isn't the cause.
Same goes for my CPU (Athlon 64 X2 6000), the usage isn't going anywhere it hasn't before, so I can't really put the blame down the that.
The situation is like my internet is hanging for a few seconds ingame, but it's not that from what I can tell either.
The only thing I can pin it down to is my soundcard (Xonar DG) which has been the only change in my setup for quite a while.
Has anyone heard of something like this before? It's as if the 'card is struggling to render audio and is bottlenecking the system, hence holding it up and causing these "freezes".
Really baffled by it, as I'm really liking the audio quality of the DG, but wondering if I've just got a "naff" one or something else is going on?
Cheers.
