Poor audio perfromnace on playback

[Guest X-Eyed_Bear]

Can I get some advice on where to look for the cause of this problem,

please?

 

Playback of recorded music (irrespective of format) is frequently poor

on my system. As soon as I do anything (for example open a web-page) the

playback of recorded audio is interrupted. If the application I start

requires more than minimal CPU - for example opening a large image in

Photoshop - the playback either stops completely or is broken up into a

stream of sub-second 'bleeps'.

 

I have an Asus A8V mobo, with Athlon 3700+ CPU, 2 Gb of dual channel

mmeory, 2 fast SATA disks, a fast Matrox display card and a Creative

Audigy card. I'm sure there is enough compute power here to provide

excellent (for a PC) quality playback. Indeed I record a lot of music

using Audacity at 24 bit resolution, 96 KHz sampling rate, producing

MP3s which are perfectly adequate for listening on the PC or in my car.

 

But the playback is unacceptable when ever something else is running on

the PC. The hardware set-up looks to be correct. Where do I look for an

explanation?

[Guest Sirtokalott]

RE: Poor audio perfromnace on playback

 

Check you have the latest drivers for your sound card and also check if there

was onboard sound on the motherboard and ensure this is disabled.

 

"X-Eyed_Bear" wrote:

> Can I get some advice on where to look for the cause of this problem,

> please?

>

> Playback of recorded music (irrespective of format) is frequently poor

> on my system. As soon as I do anything (for example open a web-page) the

> playback of recorded audio is interrupted. If the application I start

> requires more than minimal CPU - for example opening a large image in

> Photoshop - the playback either stops completely or is broken up into a

> stream of sub-second 'bleeps'.

>

> I have an Asus A8V mobo, with Athlon 3700+ CPU, 2 Gb of dual channel

> mmeory, 2 fast SATA disks, a fast Matrox display card and a Creative

> Audigy card. I'm sure there is enough compute power here to provide

> excellent (for a PC) quality playback. Indeed I record a lot of music

> using Audacity at 24 bit resolution, 96 KHz sampling rate, producing

> MP3s which are perfectly adequate for listening on the PC or in my car.

>

> But the playback is unacceptable when ever something else is running on

> the PC. The hardware set-up looks to be correct. Where do I look for an

> explanation?

>

[Guest X-Eyed_Bear]

Re: Poor audio perfromnace on playback

 

Sirtokalott wrote:

> Check you have the latest drivers for your sound card and also check if there

> was onboard sound on the motherboard and ensure this is disabled.

>

> "X-Eyed_Bear" wrote:

>

>> Can I get some advice on where to look for the cause of this problem,

>> please?

>>

>> Playback of recorded music (irrespective of format) is frequently poor

>> on my system. As soon as I do anything (for example open a web-page) the

>> playback of recorded audio is interrupted. If the application I start

>> requires more than minimal CPU - for example opening a large image in

>> Photoshop - the playback either stops completely or is broken up into a

>> stream of sub-second 'bleeps'.

>>

>> I have an Asus A8V mobo, with Athlon 3700+ CPU, 2 Gb of dual channel

>> mmeory, 2 fast SATA disks, a fast Matrox display card and a Creative

>> Audigy card. I'm sure there is enough compute power here to provide

>> excellent (for a PC) quality playback. Indeed I record a lot of music

>> using Audacity at 24 bit resolution, 96 KHz sampling rate, producing

>> MP3s which are perfectly adequate for listening on the PC or in my car.

>>

>> But the playback is unacceptable when ever something else is running on

>> the PC. The hardware set-up looks to be correct. Where do I look for an

>> explanation?

>>

Yep, did that some weeks ago - it was the first thing I checked and no

corrective action was necessary.

 

It actually 'feels' like DMA isn't working - and so the CPU is doing all

the work. How can I check that?

[Guest R. McCarty]

Re: Poor audio perfromnace on playback

 

Which PCI expansion slot is the Audigy card installed in ? ( Count from

the AGP/PCIe slot ).

 

"X-Eyed_Bear" <gladly528.nospam@ntlworld.ccom> wrote in message

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> Sirtokalott wrote:

>> Check you have the latest drivers for your sound card and also check if

>> there was onboard sound on the motherboard and ensure this is disabled.

>>

>> "X-Eyed_Bear" wrote:

>>

>>> Can I get some advice on where to look for the cause of this problem,

>>> please?

>>>

>>> Playback of recorded music (irrespective of format) is frequently poor

>>> on my system. As soon as I do anything (for example open a web-page) the

>>> playback of recorded audio is interrupted. If the application I start

>>> requires more than minimal CPU - for example opening a large image in

>>> Photoshop - the playback either stops completely or is broken up into a

>>> stream of sub-second 'bleeps'.

>>>

>>> I have an Asus A8V mobo, with Athlon 3700+ CPU, 2 Gb of dual channel

>>> mmeory, 2 fast SATA disks, a fast Matrox display card and a Creative

>>> Audigy card. I'm sure there is enough compute power here to provide

>>> excellent (for a PC) quality playback. Indeed I record a lot of music

>>> using Audacity at 24 bit resolution, 96 KHz sampling rate, producing

>>> MP3s which are perfectly adequate for listening on the PC or in my car.

>>>

>>> But the playback is unacceptable when ever something else is running on

>>> the PC. The hardware set-up looks to be correct. Where do I look for an

>>> explanation?

>>>

> Yep, did that some weeks ago - it was the first thing I checked and no

> corrective action was necessary.

>

> It actually 'feels' like DMA isn't working - and so the CPU is doing all

> the work. How can I check that?