Stuttering PC : Overkill A HTPC
Apr 10, 2009
I can't think of a better way to describe this problem other than to say the PC stutters. I'm using Home Premium (fully patched) with Media Centre as a Home Theatre PC. this is overkill for a HTPC so there shouldn't be any capacity issues in the hardware.
Sometimes when playing back recorded shows the picture and sound start stuttering taking up to 10 seconds elapsed time to go through 2 seconds of recorded show. When this happens the mouse and other facilities (minimise window, etc) also seem to be jerking around instead of operating smoothly. When I play the show back later it is fine so it is not the recording. Also sometimes when recording shows there are blocks that are dropped from the recording that I assume are related to this.
I don't believe this is a Media Centre problem as similar things happen when Media Centre is not running. I have McAffee Total Protection 2009 for a firewall and anti-virus and this shows no viruses and no spyware. I have turned off scheduled scans so this shouldn't be the problem. I have also turned off disk indexing as I don't need it on a HTPC.
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Sep 29, 2008
I'm using Vista x64 Ultimate
Specs:
Asus P5E Mobo (0702 bios *updated*)
Q6600 - 3.2 ghz prime stable
4gb munskin ram (default timings)
USB Headphones Microsoft LX-3000 (most up to date drivers installed)
My music player (WinAMP, iTunes) always stutter when I load a page off any browser (IE7,FireFox,GoogleChrome) after I left my computer on for a long time(4+ hours). I first thought it was ram that was affecting it but I'm not so sure. The longer I left my computer on the more likely it'll stutter, but I can fix about 98% of the stutter by rebooting my computer.
The stuttering only occurs when I load the page, but stops when the page finishes loading. Sites with more pictures will cause more stuttering, and this doesn't happen when I play any games.
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May 26, 2009
In the last couple of days every game I play seems to lag after about 5 mins of game play. This is new and I have never had any problems with lag in my games.
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Mar 23, 2008
After searching the 'net for months, I have yet to come up with a solution to my dilemma. Here's the deal. I have a Vista Ultimate 32-bit desktop, running an Intel 3.0 GHZ CPU and 1 GB of RAM. Everytime I leave my computer on for hours (typically overnight) it starts this odd, stuttering behavior, where EVERYTHING stops for a split second, every second. Music, mouse, video, EVERYTHING. The entire computer just skips. The only fix I have is turning the power off on the back of the computer, then unplugging and replugging the power cord in. I am positive this is not a great thing for my computer, and I need to find a solution before any real damage is done. This only happens after a long time, and is not after a specific time (i.e. after 3-4 hours EVERY time). I was thinking it could be the RAM, but I don't know.
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Jul 30, 2007
The sound likes to stutter frequently, about like a lightly scratched CD - just a tiny hesitation every couple of seconds. It's brutally annoying. This happens no matter what media player I use for either audio or video (even when set to realtime priority), and occurs on the internal Sigmatel C-Major AC97 family chip (both with and without external speakers plugged into the headphone jack) as well as on my PCMCIA Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook. I've got the latest drivers for both audio devices, and have also tried rolling back to previous versions.
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Oct 7, 2007
1) Audio stutters every 30 seconds or so for about 3-4 seconds.
- I've tried updating BIOS, but I get the same "Internal Error" type message everytime, even though it's the correct version that's supposed to be compatible with Vista 64.
- I've tried updating the audio drivers. The only driver that worked was the version that's about 2 releases old because the newer versions all had random errors and didn't work with Vista (even though they said they were supposed to).
- I thought if I turned off some advanced audio processing features it would fix the problem, but I can't get Intel Audio Studio installed because it says "This is not the correct driver for this sysetem" even though it IS.
2) BIOS refuses to update, saying "There is an internal error" or something along those lines. I looked up that error message in Intel's readme and it said it's due to a lack of hard drive space--but I have 450 GB free!.......
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Sep 15, 2008
when using media player the sound keeps stuttering towards the end of each track.
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May 5, 2009
First time posting here so be gentle. I am having difficulties with audio which has stemmed back for some time almost a year before i started buying new hardware to "correct" the problem. I have read over many posts about stuttering/laggy/jittery audio, but none seem to give me an answer. When i play Bioshock, Command and Conquer Generals Zero Hour, or even Half Life have a static-clangy echoey sound to them. It is quite the disturbing sound to hear and i cant help but think of Michael Keaton in the movie White Noise, but worse sounding static... Anywho I cant simply exit out of the program (Bioshock for example) and restart the program because the sound remains the same. I recently upgraded my system, and my sound card choice from Creative X-FI (which also had the problem) to an ASUS XONAR DX. I had thought this was strictly a sound card issue at the time when I purchased the Xonar last week. I was wrong.
This cant just be a sound card issue can it? Could it be that my 500Watt PSU isnt enough for all my nice new equipment AND my sound card?
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