03-01-2009
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Re: audiodg.exe
Well, I don't know about memory leaks, but I'd try to update the audio
driver, to see if that would help.
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"Danielcarlson@xxxxxx"
<Danielcarlsonhotmailcom@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news  CEE3853-5384-4D8F-8674-36103F54DDD5@xxxxxx Quote:
> I'm not sure, Dave, what difference it will make to describe my system if
> it's just one of those things that happen with audiodg. But I have an AMD
> dual-core 32-bit processor, 3 Gigs memory, 200 GB hard drive at 5400 RPM.
> It's a laptop, Toshiba and it didn't make all the strange screeching,
> jumbled
> and static noises, cutting out and everthing until lately. The audiodg
> process gets as high as 300,000 bytes and takes up as much as 80% of my
> memory. And it's annoying as heck.
>
> I scoured the internet, Microsoft support too, but found nothing up till I
> landed here. The Microsoft support said "Sorry Charlie, you must go to the
> manufacturer for help." The manufacturer, Toshiba, is telling people it's
> not
> a hardware problem so that's that. And unless I misread what has been said
> here, the best thing to do is not to play music at all.
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> It's worst when I try to do videos on youtube, but then It's not always
> happening. But doing a restart has not made a difference it seems. It may
> bring down the memory in bytes but the percentage is still way up there
> and
> the sound is usually not better.
>
> Got any ideas? I've seen people talk about "leaks" but I don't know what
> that means.
>
> Thanks though for replying.....
> Dan
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> "Dave" wrote:
> Quote:
>> Perhaps you should back up a bit, and explain your problem a bit more..
>> What program are you using to play music?
>> System specs, etc.
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>> I just opened Windows Media Player and started to play a list of mp3
>> files.
>> My CPU usage went up as high as 90 %, but the music sounds just fine.
>> Using Process Explorer, I saw that wmplayer was using 30-40%, and
>> searchindexer was using 40-50%.
>> After the indexer stopped, the CPU usage dropped to less than 20%, with
>> wmplayer using less than 1 %.
>> audiodg uses less than 1 %.
>>
>>
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>> "Danielcarlson@xxxxxx"
>> <Danielcarlsonhotmailcom@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:FE222315-16D5-42C7-8A47-A5201DA0592D@xxxxxx Quote:
>> > So there is no alternative to having terrible sound on my machine
>> > because
>> > Audiodg hogs the memory? If I want to listen to my music I have to do
>> > it
>> > outside Windows? I have Vista Home Premium and I want my money back!
>> > Show
>> > me
>> > to the door please!
>> >
>> > "evb60" wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> The audiodg proces is indeed a system proces, which is used sound
>> >> processing on your machine. More about the proces can be read in this
>> >> blog post:
>> >> http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/...diodg-exe.aspx
>> >>
>> >> The solution to the CPU problem has been to me to disable the service
>> >> in computer management at reboot, so it wouldn't start at system
>> >> bootup.
>> >> Then, when I'm back in windows, I just re-enable it. At that point in
>> >> time, it won't eat your CPU anymore.
>> >>
>> >> I have no exact explanation to why it eats that much cpu, but I expect
>> >> it to be a driver incompatibility. Porbably the Realtek AC97 (in my
>> >> case) drivers aren't reacting the way audiodg expects them to do.
>> >>
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