Bink files - audio skipping.

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I'm having a major problem with .bik files. Everyone i view the audio constantly skips (cuts out/in) every few seconds, it makes them unplayable basically.

This has affected mostly games that use them.

I'm running on an Asus p5q-deluxe which uses the soundmax HD Audio.

I have the newest drivers I can find for it (only 1 set on the asus site, tried to find newer ones but soundmax doesn't even list any and tells you to go to the asus site or whatever) and have tried uninstall, reinstalling them, etc.

I've d/led the Rad game tools player and even using that it skips as well.

Tried turning sound acceleration off in the windows settings, turning off the digital output setting in the soundmax control panel, etc and no luck there.

I'm pulling my hair trying to figure out how to fix this issue. It's audio only, the video itself plays out fine with no problems or anything.

Other specs:
Intel c2d e8400
2gb ram
windows xp (32bit) w/updates

If anyone can help fix this I would be very grateful. I've tried hours searching google, trying out things I could find on it and nothing working.

 

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Did a bit of troubleshooting myself.

There is one game that uses bink and doesn't have this ;problem for me, which is Left 4 Dead.

When I start the game and it goes through the intro I have no audio stuttering or any problems, it plays fine. HOWEVER if I manually play the video outside of the game, through radplayer, it has the usual audio skipping problem.

So I tried using process explorer to see what sound dll's or such they were trying to use and what might be different between them. However I hit a dead road. Both show the same, Dsound.dll and wmaud along with the bink32.dll.

I've already tried taking the bink32.dll from the left 4 dead foldier and replacing the other one in a different game, b ut it doesn't work.

This wouldn't be a big deal but there's a game out (Vampyre story) That I would love to play, but they use bink files throughout the whole game to tell the story and th us it wouldn't work well for me.