Realtek AC'97 Sound Stuttering Problems

[FragTek]

Well after reworking my system last night and ditching WinXP (I friggin' hate XP!!! ) because it was giving me random BSOD's and all sorts of crap. I've now got Win2k3 back on it and everything is running smooth except for one small thing.

My sound is acting up. The MSI mobo I am using has the Realtek AC'97 onboard (I have ordered an X-Mystique for cheap already just to see if this fixes it) but if I can get the onboard working good I'll sell of the Auzen card. Anyhow, whenever the computer is "thinking" or accessing the HD or using excessive CPU usage the sound will stutter/crackle. This is most notable in games. While playing LOTRO or WoW whenever the game lags or has a hard time keeping up the sound will stutter and it sounds awful. I've never had this problem before. I am thinking it's a conflict with Win2K3 as I'm sure these audio drivers were never meant for server OS's.

I just wanted to check and see if anyone else has experienced this problem and maybe found a workaround. I have the newest drivers installed from Realtek's page and audio acceleration is maxed out in Windows sound settings.

What's the deal?

 

[MikeEnIke]

Sounds just like because it's onboard there is too much stress on the proccy. Or if you are overclocked, that's known to cause sound issues for onboard. I'll bet that card will fix the problem in a jiffy tbh.

 

[FragTek]

Sounds just like because it's onboard there is too much stress on the proccy. Or if you are overclocked, that's known to cause sound issues for onboard. I'll bet that card will fix the problem in a jiffy tbh.

That's pretty much what I had figured. Didn't have the problem in XP though but I think that's where the drivers come in to play as they are designed for XP use, and not 2K3.

No overclock as this mobo is a total POS but I think with all of the proccy bottlenecking and full speed folding it's probably an issue.

Hoping the sound card will fix everything up!

 

[Raging]

deffo put that sound card to use dude,ac 97 sucks major schlong tbh

Raging.

 

[Rastalovich]

Meh I get crackling when I got 2 cores folding, downloading, copying gigs and playing music. That`s with a soundcard >.< hehe (stops crackling when the copying is done)

Great multitaskers

 

[ali_james]

I get a point about 20 seconds into any game I'm playing, C+C 3, Stalker etc..

Where the computer locks and the sound gets stuck making the sounds it was doing so get a horrible juddery noise. It can be at any time, so I leave it on the opening options screen for a bit to get it out of the way.

Comes back to life in a second or two and doesnt do it again after. I think I have AC97 onboard as well.

EDIT: And since I switched my phone to 02 I can't have it anywhere near the computer or I get that annoying loud distortion. Only 02 though, my old Virgin sim didnt do it *grumble over*

 

[Rastalovich]

My O2 does that after a phonecall. Most other phones I`ve had have done it b4 a phonecall.

I reckon there`s a direct relationship between harddrive access and sound that needs sorting out on a hardware level, aswell as driver-wize. Loads of different mobos do it, different types of sound, harddrives whatever.

 

[FghtinIrshNvrDie]

sounds to me like it's getting loaded down to much being onboard and all. A sound card should fix it up, but I hope you have enough room in your SFF case.

Ryan

 

[FragTek]

sounds to me like it's getting loaded down to much being onboard and all. A sound card should fix it up, but I hope you have enough room in your SFF case.

Ryan

It should fit mate, just barely. I might have to sand down the top edge of the card a bit like I had to do with the vid card to get it to go in smoothly.

 

[MikeEnIke]

Roflcopter, you got balls frag, if nothing else, you've got balls lol.

 

[FragTek]

Extreme modder @ heart

:rocker:

 

[nathan]

havent read all the thread so not sure how much use this may be, But the other week we had the same problem on a acer laptop. Tried pretty much everything, So we had to do a windows reinstall and that cured the problem.

 

[FragTek]

havent read all the thread so not sure how much use this may be, But the other week we had the same problem on a acer laptop. Tried pretty much everything, So we had to do a windows reinstall and that cured the problem.

A format fixed it eh? Hrmmm... Maybe I'll do a full backup and try reinstalling 2k3 just for giggles.