Sound "gaps"

drak3 · 16 May 2009 at 11:41

Hello all,

for some reason when I play an Mp3 I get "gaps" every 3 secs or so. Music plays crystal clear and every 3 sec is like pressing pause/play in 1 millisecond.

I installed latest beta driver from creative for my X-Fi (supposed to have dedicated processor and sound ram!)

Feels like the PC runs out of "processing power", is like watching HD content and the CPU is not powerful enough

Any ideas

?

Thanks

drak3 · 16 May 2009 at 11:43

I am now thinking that it could be some electrical interference etc. Will update chipset drivers etc see if it solves the problem.

miniyazz · 16 May 2009 at 11:48

Try using onboard sound and see if you get the same problem - points to if its the sound card/drivers or OS/music program/music

drak3 · 16 May 2009 at 11:59

Same problem with onboard sound (DFI x58 berstein card) and now with Creative X-Fi dedicated board.

Tried headphones and speakers so whatever it is is distrorting the signal.

Started suspecting the windows audio system or some setting.

CPU usage is 0% with creative dedicated board as it should (card does the processing) but the gap is constant every 3 sec like 100ms gap.

Is there any newer chipset x58 drivers than whats on intel which reads 2008 btw?

drak3 · 16 May 2009 at 12:37

I noticed that every time the audio glitches BBC iplayer for example also "pauses" for a few millisec. Feels like windows stops every few sec for a few milliseconds

Spec is i7 x58 12Gb ram etc, plenty of resources!

swinnie · 16 May 2009 at 12:40

What about rolling back the drivers?

Antar Bolaeisk · 16 May 2009 at 15:22

Try booting the computer with startup itmes disabled

Go to start -> run -> msconfig.exe and just de-tick "load startup items"

Perhaps there is something running in the background.

Also, disable whichever sound card you're not using as I've seen this cause video playback problems before.