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Sound issue. Need advise

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buzzfunk

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Hey folks,

I just put together a new machine. Actually a while back but all of the sudden i get sound stuttering every min or so, in games or windows. It seems the whole computer comes to an halt for 1-2 secs....

I use the SB x-fi extreme audio with latest drivers.

Other specs are: ASUS P5N32-E SLI, 2 gigs ram, 8800 Nv card

temps check out fine. No new hardware was installed. I just finished EP2 last week and it was working fine.

Any ideas?
 
The X-Fi XtremeAudio/XtremeGamer models (the half-height PCI cards) use software emulation... they're essentially no better than onboard sound. There may be an issue with the drivers (Creative's had a history of poor driver support, especially with Vista), or it may be taking a while (longer) for the card to activate your "optimized" settings. (Have you used Creative's software to customize your sound/speaker settings? Have you tried activating/using some of the X-Fi-exclusive functions?) Then again, the onboard sound may still be active, and is trying to process the same sounds as the XtremeAudio at the same time.

Make sure that your onboard sound (from the motherboard) is disabled first, and then try uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers on your sound card. If that doesn't work, uninstall the drivers for the XtremeAudio, remove the card, and run onboard sound for the time being. Try playing your games using onboard audio; if you receive no slowdown then, there is a problem with either the PCI slot or the PCI card. (The only way to confirm the former, though, is to use a different sound card -- or a different thing -- in the same PCI slot the XtremeAudio was in. But I believe there is something wrong with the latter's drivers.)

In the long run, though, I suggest that (assuming you want to stay with the Sound Blaster X-Fi cards) you get either the X-Fi XtremeMusic (which is discontiuned, but still somewhat easy to find) or the X-Fi XtremeGamer Fata1ity models. If you don't go Creative, make sure that the sound card that you do get acutally has dedicated hardware-based sound processor.
 
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