Weird as heck lag!

[MrElve]

Okay so in all my years, this is REALLY weird.

Any voice comms I use such as Skype, Vent, Teamspeak etc, Lags EXTREMELY in receiving audio and transmitting my mic whenever I extract with WinRAR or copy files with windows explorer but as soon as I stop or cancel, they're fine again..?

I have no idea what's causing it. I've rebooted. Shut down. WHAT THE HECK IS THIS?!?!

Can anybody help?

 

[asim18]

Has it always been like this?

I'm not sure, but it's probably just using the HDD as a data buffer. So when you max out the HDD with a file transfer it will be queuing Skype's traffic between the bulky file transfer, causing it to down.

But I would have thought real-time VoIP application like Skype would simply utilise RAM for any buffering within the application, and not I/O to a temporary file.(?)

 

[BloodyL]

Check to see if your drives are set to AHCI in the bios.
Check to see if the drives have defaulted to PIO mode in windows.

 

[MrElve]

It's only started happening since I started using an SSD boot drive and set my HDD's to AHCI.. :/