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moriz wrote:well, popping a sound card into a laptop is gonna be very difficult
2.31 is the latest driver from Realtek (released today, in fact). i tested with winamp and WMP, and both exibit the stuttering. i'll try an older driver i guess. and yes, even the default driver installed by windows 7 on install had the stuttering.
FubbHead wrote:Happens to me occasionally, as well. Usually happens when, say, installing applications and such, so I guess it's just the system not coping. Basically everything I play is over the network, either from a file server or the Internet, maybe that has something to do with it...
moriz wrote:that's the first thing that i've done; unfortunately the result is the same. in fact, i've tried three driver versions, and the the stutter remains. perhaps it is not completely driver related.
btw, there's an "unknown device" listed in device managers. for the life of me, i can't think of anything that's missing. i don't know if this unkown device has anything to do with it. device manager has been rather cryptic as to what that device actually is. the only thing it can tell me is that it is on: "Intel(R) ICH8M Interface Controller - 2815". its hardware ID is: "ACPI\HPQ0006".
morphine wrote:FubbHead wrote:Happens to me occasionally, as well. Usually happens when, say, installing applications and such, so I guess it's just the system not coping. Basically everything I play is over the network, either from a file server or the Internet, maybe that has something to do with it...
Stuttering when installing apps and such sounds _very_ much like a DMA issue or a buggy disk/network driver. Plus, if all the stuff you play is not local, then pretty much all bets are off, bandwidth can get to you.
morphine wrote:FWIW, I've railed and railed against Vista and am enjoying W7 quite a lot, especially regarding its smoothness (I stuck with XP on my own box until now). It's Vista, except it's not slow/stupid, or confusing (for 90% of stuff anyway).
moriz wrote:btw, there's an "unknown device" listed in device managers. for the life of me, i can't think of anything that's missing. i don't know if this unkown device has anything to do with it. device manager has been rather cryptic as to what that device actually is. the only thing it can tell me is that it is on: "Intel(R) ICH8M Interface Controller - 2815". its hardware ID is: "ACPI\HPQ0006".
steelcity_ballin wrote:Can you attempt to remove the sound drivers completely, reboot <snip>