Sound distorted and stuttering in windowed mode.

[TehJock]

It failed to install and kept asking for permissions. I'll try again and let you know.

Edit - Only gives me an option to uninstall.

 

[wither 3]

It sounds like it installed. Does it show up in control panel\sound or in Device Manager, Sound....

 

[TehJock]

There's still only C-Media Audio Device and AMD HD Audio Device there.

I must note though, that the AC97 download is only for Windows XP and below on that site you provided.

 

[wither 3]

In the last link I gave you for the ADi..... driver, you said it was for some driver update utility. When I tried it, I got a file called win57991.exe. Is that the same file you downloaded? Since my sound is working properly, I didn't want to run it.

 

[TehJock]

That's the installation to UpdateMyDrivers.

 

[wither 3]

Try the Realtek AC97 driver for Vista and Win 7 from here- Realtek Semiconductor - Software Publisher Profile - CNET Download.com

 

[TehJock]

Sadly, the problem persists. Ugh.

Could there be any other problems despite the sound card driver though?

 

[wither 3]

It's up to you but I would try uninstalling or disabling the Xear driver.

 

[TehJock]

Could it have something to do with chipset drivers though?

 

[wither 3]

The chipset driver is the AD...... one that we were trying to find without having to pay for a driver download program. We could still look for that. I don't know which OS this one is for- Asus Motherboard Drivers | Files | SoundMax ADI1986A Audio Driver V5.12.1.5430 | A8S X | Drivers | Game Front

Could you give me a screenshot of the Control Panel\Sound\Playback screen? Make sure that all disabled and disconnected devices are shown. You can do that by just right clicking in the white space on the screen.

 

[TehJock]

View attachment 27729View attachment 27730

There ya go. Will test the chipset driver now.

Edit - Tested, doesn't support Vista. I think I have the latest chipset drivers already, though.

 

[wither 3]

That's pretty sparse. There's no audio manager shown.

If you right click on the Speaker icon in the screen shot, what is the speaker configuration shown?

I'm a little bothered by the fact that the Xear driver uses Directx 10. Does your graphics card support Directx 10?

 

[TehJock]

Speaker configuration is on Stereo.


I think my graphics card supports DirectX 10, as it's the ATI Radeon 4600 HD series one.

 

[wither 3]

I getting pretty close to not knowing where to go next-

You're graphics card supports Directx10.

I still think it's a driver issue. I've seen problems with 3D video depending on whether or not the screen was maximized or minimized, in another forum. My best recommendation is to disable the Xear and install the Realtec AC97 driver. I don't know why your AMD was disconnected. I guess it had something to do with the computer repair.

 

[townsbg]

Do you have any codecs installed like divX or Xvid? If so try to uninstall or reinstall them? Also from the start menu type in dxdiag. Look under the audio and video tabs to see if it finds any problems. Also check undo video that the directx accelerations are enabled.

 

[TehJock]

The problem is that I can't find the Xear driver, as it doesn't show up in my list of installed programs or anything.

 

[townsbg]

Make sure that the driver is completely removed with driver sweeper and then try the install again. Guru3D - Driver Sweeper (no installer) download

 

[wither 3]

If you go to Control Panel\Device Manager\Sound, .................., it should be there. If you right click on it, you should be able to disable it.

If the Realtek is shown, enable it.

 

[TehJock]

No help. There's no Realtek driver shown and even if I uninstall my current and install Realtek, nothing happens.

 

[Dwarf]

Your motherboard supports the SoundMax ADI1986A audio codec. Sadly, the download page for your particular motherboard does not feature any audio drivers. However, another ASUS model which uses the same codec does. Try ASUSTeK Computer Inc. -Support- Drivers and Download M2N-MX