Intermittant Sound Stutter in HD

I have an problem where the sound pauses for about a half a second at random
times during HD playback only. The video is not effected nor is the pause
repeatable if replayed. There doesn't appear to be a cpu utilization issue
during these episodes and plenty of memory is available. The problem does not
occur during SD playback and not specific a particular sound mode.

I am running Vista SP1 on a Asus P5LD2 mb with a Intel Core 2 1.86GHz CPU
with 2Gb of RAM and a nVidia 8600GT video card with 256Mb of memory. The mb
has onboard Realtech HD sound which I am using via the S/PDIF output to a AV
receiver.

Curious
Wed Jun 25 12:34:08 PDT 2008

Are you using the latest Realtech sound drivers from the Asus Website for
your MOBO or ones you obtained from another source?
"Terrman" <Terrman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:DF0EE1BE-48ED-4A9F-9B5E-CFD8A3E89275@microsoft.com...
>I have an problem where the sound pauses for about a half a second at
>random
> times during HD playback only. The video is not effected nor is the pause
> repeatable if replayed. There doesn't appear to be a cpu utilization issue
> during these episodes and plenty of memory is available. The problem does
> not
> occur during SD playback and not specific a particular sound mode.
>
> I am running Vista SP1 on a Asus P5LD2 mb with a Intel Core 2 1.86GHz CPU
> with 2Gb of RAM and a nVidia 8600GT video card with 256Mb of memory. The
> mb
> has onboard Realtech HD sound which I am using via the S/PDIF output to a
> AV
> receiver.

Terrman
Wed Jun 25 13:03:05 PDT 2008

I've tried the lastest Realtech drivers from Asus and the Realtech site -
both versions produce the same reuslts. I've even tried removing the Realtech
driver and rely on the driver Vista installs - same results.

"Curious" wrote:

> Are you using the latest Realtech sound drivers from the Asus Website for
> your MOBO or ones you obtained from another source?
> "Terrman" <Terrman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:DF0EE1BE-48ED-4A9F-9B5E-CFD8A3E89275@microsoft.com...
> >I have an problem where the sound pauses for about a half a second at
> >random
> > times during HD playback only. The video is not effected nor is the pause
> > repeatable if replayed. There doesn't appear to be a cpu utilization issue
> > during these episodes and plenty of memory is available. The problem does
> > not
> > occur during SD playback and not specific a particular sound mode.
> >
> > I am running Vista SP1 on a Asus P5LD2 mb with a Intel Core 2 1.86GHz CPU
> > with 2Gb of RAM and a nVidia 8600GT video card with 256Mb of memory. The
> > mb
> > has onboard Realtech HD sound which I am using via the S/PDIF output to a
> > AV
> > receiver.
>

Fuzzy
Wed Jun 25 13:50:46 PDT 2008

=?Utf-8?B?VGVycm1hbg==?= <Terrman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
news:DF0EE1BE-48ED-4A9F-9B5E-CFD8A3E89275@microsoft.com:

> I have an problem where the sound pauses for about a half a second at
> random times during HD playback only. The video is not effected nor is
> the pause repeatable if replayed. There doesn't appear to be a cpu
> utilization issue during these episodes and plenty of memory is
> available. The problem does not occur during SD playback and not
> specific a particular sound mode.
>
> I am running Vista SP1 on a Asus P5LD2 mb with a Intel Core 2 1.86GHz
> CPU with 2Gb of RAM and a nVidia 8600GT video card with 256Mb of memory.
> The mb has onboard Realtech HD sound which I am using via the S/PDIF
> output to a AV receiver.

Microsoft recently released and update that I didn't see via WindowsUpdate
that is supposed to address stuttering issues. More info here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952709

Terrman
Thu Jun 26 09:27:01 PDT 2008

Sounded good, but didn't help the situation. Could this be a cpu speed issue?

"Fuzzy Logic" wrote:

> =?Utf-8?B?VGVycm1hbg==?= <Terrman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> news:DF0EE1BE-48ED-4A9F-9B5E-CFD8A3E89275@microsoft.com:
>
> > I have an problem where the sound pauses for about a half a second at
> > random times during HD playback only. The video is not effected nor is
> > the pause repeatable if replayed. There doesn't appear to be a cpu
> > utilization issue during these episodes and plenty of memory is
> > available. The problem does not occur during SD playback and not
> > specific a particular sound mode.
> >
> > I am running Vista SP1 on a Asus P5LD2 mb with a Intel Core 2 1.86GHz
> > CPU with 2Gb of RAM and a nVidia 8600GT video card with 256Mb of memory.
> > The mb has onboard Realtech HD sound which I am using via the S/PDIF
> > output to a AV receiver.
>
> Microsoft recently released and update that I didn't see via WindowsUpdate
> that is supposed to address stuttering issues. More info here:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952709
>

Terrman
Sat Jun 28 15:48:00 PDT 2008

Well, I found the solution and it's simple too - more memory. I guess what
they say about Vista being a resource hog is true, 2Gb of RAM was just not
enough - with 4Gb the sound pauses are history (and the system boots much
faster now)!

Geez Microsoft, I hope Vista won't need anymore as this is the max for my
motherboard. Kinda gives a reason why the enterprise has not adapted, huh?

"Terrman" wrote:

> I have an problem where the sound pauses for about a half a second at random
> times during HD playback only. The video is not effected nor is the pause
> repeatable if replayed. There doesn't appear to be a cpu utilization issue
> during these episodes and plenty of memory is available. The problem does not
> occur during SD playback and not specific a particular sound mode.
>
> I am running Vista SP1 on a Asus P5LD2 mb with a Intel Core 2 1.86GHz CPU
> with 2Gb of RAM and a nVidia 8600GT video card with 256Mb of memory. The mb
> has onboard Realtech HD sound which I am using via the S/PDIF output to a AV
> receiver.