Win7 Audio Stack Bug Question

Couscous · 16 Sep 2010 at 11:23

Hi folks,

I'm wondering if anyone is familiar with the Audio Stack problems in Win7 which cause it to BSOD after a while when using hardware accelerated audio?

Basically, my question is this: I have a Creative X-fi Gamer card which works fine apart from getting these intermittent BSOD's when gaming. Is this issue limited to Creative cards or would I get the same thing if I switched to something like a Xonar?

Many thanks

Couscous

Couscous · 16 Sep 2010 at 20:39

Thanks for the replies. Microsoft have admitted the problem with the audio stack under Win7 with hardware accelerated sound. What happens (as far as I know) is that the stack doesn't empty as it should and gradually fills up with audio data until it overflows causing a BSOD. I only have this happen when playing Lotro as the game swaps around large amounts of audio data.

Going back to my original question: if anyone has encountered this problem and knows if switching to a different card will solve it, I'd be interested to hear your experience. I'm keen to drop my X-fi for one of the Xonar's but it will be pointless if I get the same crashing.

Couscous