Vista - Sound stutter & game lag

Hi all,

I recently did a system re-build, as per my specs. I've been having awful crackling and sound stutters which sometimes appear to be causing lag spikes in games too. (Having said that, I get it even when doing simple taks like listening to music or watching movies on iTunes/Windows Media Player.)

I've done all the usual things like updating to the latest BIOS/drivers, but still it won't go away. I've moved the sound card to another PCI slot and checked there's no IRQ conflicts too...

Can anyone help please?

G.

Possibly reducing the sound acceleration would help. On board sound? Usually notorious for crackling. Perhaps a separate sound card is in order?

The op has mentioned he is using an add on card for the sound.

As for the sound stuttering, it sounds as this is connected to your lag. It suggest in other words as if the sound is not the cause of the problem but a symptom.

Have a look in your reliablity and performance and also the event viewer for any signs of the computer getting bogged down.

Also look in task manager when it is happening to find out what is hogging the processing power.

It may be down to codecs or video drivers, I would look there first.

Sorted. Installed the RAID driver just released by JMICRON and it's running well...