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hey...
i have a soundblaster live! value.
when i play music ,say with winamp and i want to load a program (the mixer,media player,babylon,word...)
there is a serious glitch in the sound for a few seconds until the program starts.(a few seconds of sound stuttering).
i tried both the microsoft driver and the creative one.i must note that this problem does not occur using win2k/me.
is there a solution to the problem ?
That's completely normal. Any activity on the system bus is going to cause the music to glitch almost every time regardless of processor speed or the quality of your sound card. You could try reducing the number of background tasks, but other than that I think you're SOL. One of the most common complaints I get amongst family, friends, and customers is a glitchy startup wave. Again you have all kinds of programs loading which means all kinds of activity on the system bus, so in essence it's the same problem.
Someone else may chime in with a solution, but personally I think you'll probably have to live with it.
may be i did't explain the problem correctly.
i'm not talking about a glitchi START WAVE.
After i start playing songs with winamp everything is fine,no glitches.but if while a song is playing i load any kind of a program there is an annoying glitch ! (a few seconds long !)
that was not the case when i used win 2k or win me...
(if there is a glitch during the startup of a song it can be sometimes solved by reducing the priority of the playing program)
Actually I understood you the first time. What I'm saying is that the same thing that causes your startup wave to glitch also causes mp3's to glitch when you open another program during play. The less activity you have running on the system bus means the less likely playback will be interrupted. That's why I said try reducing the amount of tasks running in the background. Other than that I really don't think there's much that can be done.
I had a very similar problem..... Try this....
Goto Start>run>dxdiag
run the direct3D test(the one with the spinning cube)
Watch to see if the cube "glitches" while its spinning. You may have to try this a couple of times.
If it does, I would try to find some new drivers for your HD controller(if you have UDMA 66, 100, etc).
My problem was cured instantly when I installed new HPT370 drivers instead of using the default XP drivers. This was of course after I had formated my comp about 8 times. Hope this helps. ;)
A couple more things that might help would be to make your PC run more efficiently by lowering your video and sound acceleration. Also, it never hurts to add more memory. But yeah, if you're listening to music, and then you try and launch a bunch of apps all at once, then of course it will make the music seem to stutter here and there while it thinks about what it's doing.
i disconnected the slave hard disk that was connnected to the ide channel and that enabled my master hard disk to work at udma mode, don't know why.. (it used pio mode earlier).
now every thing is fine....
Your slave drive was probably an older drive that could only run at PIO mode, With that drive in there your master was running in PIO mode due to the slave running in PIO , Once you removed the drive your master was able to run in UDMA mode
In any master/slave setup your drives will run as fast as the slowest drive in the chain
Good to hear you got it fixed up :eek: