Choppy / glitchy audio in Vista

[ajua]

I'm having this problem since vista release. I have updated my audio drivers whenever a new set is out without any luck.

I have Realtek onboard sound and i only use the digital output to connect my PC to a Home Theater via optical fiber cable.

The audio in games and music players stutters every x minutes for a second or two and the cycle start again and again. It is weird but it seems that this sttutering happens to many people...

[Beastage]

OK lets go back a few... you have onboard audio on that motherboard, its a good onboard audio and to be honest, Realtek provide a hell of alot driver support than Creative

Pull out the audigy , re enable your onboard audio , install latest realtek drivers http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downlo...p;GetDown=false

Lets see if this helps.

While here... I cant seem to find the quadro nvs 210s chipset on nvidia site, anyone knows why? - k I found out it is actually nforce 430 with 6100 gpu... nice thing for nvidia to call this quadro....

hmmm, reading a bit more info on neowin and the net, this isnt sound related but prolly chipset related, I think all the problems coming from nforce 4 series and below.

OK, right now I believe you are basically screwed, there is no fixing for your problem because nVidia should be slapped with a lawsuit for lack of support for slightly older chipsets.

Edited April 11, 2008 by Beastage

[+Warwagon MVC]

OK lets go back a few... you have onboard audio on that motherboard, its a good onboard audio and to be honest, Realtek provide a hell of alot driver support than Creative

Pull out the audigy , re enable your onboard audio , install latest realtek drivers http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downlo...p;GetDown=false

Lets see if this helps.

While here... I cant seem to find the quadro nvs 210s chipset on nvidia site, anyone knows why? - k I found out it is actually nforce 430 with 6100 gpu... nice thing for nvidia to call this quadro....

hmmm, reading a bit more info on neowin and the net, this isnt sound related but prolly chipset related, I think all the problems coming from nforce 4 series and below.

OK, right now I believe you are basically screwed, there is no fixing for your problem because nVidia should be slapped with a lawsuit for lack of support for slightly older chipsets.

well in a year or so I wanted to build a new system anyway

Quad Core

4 + gigs of ram

[Grope for Luna]

I've recently had problems with glitchy audio as well. A reboot usually cures it and I don't recall experiencing it in the past couple weeks. I have an Audigy4.

[Guest]

I get this also. Although, it is bareable and doesn't happen very often in the least. It seems to happen most when I'm playing Chess Titans (With all the fancy graphics on max.)

Doesn't happen at all in video games like CS: S.

I remember trying Frets on Fire and it was horrid.. the common attribute here is that both Chess Titans and FoF were running in a window.

I've got the latest drivers, video, audio, network.

A reboot might help with CoolCatBad's fix. Will post more later.

Edit: This is on a Dell XPS M1530, using the built-in audio device.

[+Warwagon MVC]

Well in a stroke of luck, I decided to install audacity and try that instead. That was Perfect!... well other than the fact that sometimes when I would click stop the program would crash. But the recording sounded just PERFECT!.

[JustGeorge]

Did you say that you couldn't set the min/max CPU percentage in power management? I also have an x2 4400+ and I have the setting available. This won't help you, but I found an article about this:

http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsv...ing-issues.aspx

Are you using the nforce chipset drivers or just the default MS provided? I never installed nvidia's due to all the horror stories about them.

[+Warwagon MVC]

Did you say that you couldn't set the min/max CPU percentage in power management? I also have an x2 4400+ and I have the setting available. This won't help you, but I found an article about this:

http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsv...ing-issues.aspx

Are you using the nforce chipset drivers or just the default MS provided? I never installed nvidia's due to all the horror stories about them.

I'm actually using the Nvidia ones. But I've tried both. Also I think my processor is the 4600, I think.

[JustGeorge]

Still you should be able to set the min max speed of the cpu in the PM properties. Have you tried setting the affinity of your audio app to use just one core? Perhaps a SP1 integrated Vista disc and a fresh install is in order.

[Innesi874]

This is my first post on Neowin so go easy, I am having similar problems with the sound on Windows Vista as in a 2 second delay of garbled sound. I have installed the latest drivers for my audio (realtek version 1.92), video and motherboard. I have also put SP1 on but its still glitchy. I don't know what else to do.

Could it be the recording settings conflicting with vista's output settings?

I would really appreciate some help, or microsoft in releasing the second service pack for vista...

[maddhater]

This is my first post on Neowin so go easy, I am having similar problems with the sound on Windows Vista as in a 2 second delay of garbled sound. I have installed the latest drivers for my audio (realtek version 1.92), video and motherboard. I have also put SP1 on but its still glitchy. I don't know what else to do.

Could it be the recording settings conflicting with vista's output settings?

I would really appreciate some help, or microsoft in releasing the second service pack for vista...

I have the same issue. I also updated the drivers for both my graphics card and sound card. No improvement.

[ralph_tran]

lol. 2 one post wonders in a row.

I've been having this problem too. It seems to happen the most in itunes, but not as often in WMP. I remember reading somewhere that it has something to do with the wireless network adapter, so I updated my driver and even eventually tried disabling the wifi... both no good.

[Napalm Frog]

I get issues due to the graphics card driver. I had flawless playback on the last Beta nVidia driver, but the new WHQL ones give me choppy audio. I know it has something to do with the graphic rendering. If I make my browser window smaller (I have a 1680x1050 resolution), the issue temporarily disappears. However, I like my maximised window so hopefully this is only a temporary workaround.

[Astrum]

Similar problem here. I have nVidia nForce4 SLI chipset and use built-in Realtek ALC850.

Thanks for the tips, I'll try to experiment?disable one network card I don't use, remove nVidia chipset drivers and cool'n'quiet feature.

Just which network card to disable: nVidia or Marvell Yukon 88E8053?

[noroom]

I had the same problem under XP (but tried Vista and it did it too!), turned out to be a faulty SATA controller on the board. Replaced the motherboard, and everything's fine now.

Link: https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?act=...p;pid=588984344

[Mr. Gibs]

Try going to your sound options [in control panel] and reducing your sound sampling quality.

On default its at dvd quality, but sometimes due to drivers and stuff this is changed to studio quality. Reducing it down to CD quality, which is pretty much what your listening to with MP3 and stuff, will reduce the load on your soundcard and this problem should go

[Innesi874]

Everything is new in my PC as I have just rebuilt it, so I doubt it could be the SATA cable but I have double checked the connection just in case and changed the cable with a spare I had. I have tried dumbing down the quality of the playback to CD but it seems to make things worse. This is mostly happening when I am using itunes, however, I was testing it by playing Quake 4 last night and it seems to be working fine. Could it be something to do with the media player that I am using?

I also had the same problem with Windows XP so that was the main reason I wanted to upgrade to Vista and get new bits for my rig.

I am racking my brains as in what to do with this diellema! Any Suggestions?

:crazy: Annoyed :angry:

Windows Vista 64 Bit Ultimate Edition SP 1

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+ 2.90 GHz, 2.00 GB Memory, GigaByte GA-K8N Pro-SLI, ATI HIS 3870 Pro, 500 GB SATA Samsung HDD.

Edited May 18, 2008 by Innesi874

[Heliosintrism]

When ever I play music or videos the audio sort of gets studders or skips for just a split second every 10 seconds or sometimes sooner, its really quite annoying and below are the things i've tried to correct the issue

1) Updated all my drivers for chipset, graphics cards, nics sound card, SATA drivers

2) Tried multiple sound cards, 3 infact, 1 was a Soundblaster Live 5.1, the other was a Soundblaster Audigy SE and the other one was some 5.1 sound card can't really remember the name.

3) Tried that fix where you go into the processor power managment but my x2 4600 doesn't have that

4) i've tried differnet media players all the with same results

5) Tried going in and turning off some of the enhanced features for the sound card, but mine doesn't give me that option

6) Checked the device manager to see any spikes in CPU ussage durring the studder, and there are none.

my current setup is this

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ Windsor 2.4GHz Socket AM2 Processor

MSI K9NBPM2-FID AM2 NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S motherboard

BFG Tech BFGR7950512GTOCE GeForce 7950GT 512MB 256-bit graphics card

Kingston HyperX 2GB (4 x 512MB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 533

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (Perpendicular Recording) ST3250620AS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

Windows Vista Busness

Just wondering if anyone else has had these problems or knows of a solution, hopefully this gets fixed in sp1 or a monthly update, because after searching the web, its pretty common.

Thanx

Adam

going into control panel\sounds\ double click your audio device \ click the enhancements tab and check "disable all enhancements" worked for me

[Neoauld]

i get it in TF2

ive never found out..why