Thanks for some direction.... I haven't been able to find this much help
anywhere Dave. I'm not too much of a geek so could you steer me in the right
direction to update my audio drivers? Where would I find them? In the device
manager? And if so would it be under a plug and play USB? I'm lost here.
Thanks a billion Dave (you know what they say... a billion here and a
billion there, pretty soon your talking real thanks) LOL
"Dave" wrote:
Quote:
> 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"
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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.
> >
> > 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
> >
> > "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.
> >>
> >> 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
> >> > 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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