Occasional stutter w/music and movies

[BodiesOfLight]

While listening to music or watching a movie there is a occasional stutter in the music or movie. I don't think it's a lack of cpu power, I have a AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Venice 2.2ghz. I'll be playing music with not much else open and it will stutter for a sec. It doesn't happen often, but it's still kind of irritating.


I'm just trying to pin point the problem.

 

[mrarroyo]

Have you run an anti-spyware like Spybot or Ad-Aware to make sure you do not have anything running in the background?

 

[lmilhan]

Hmm interesting.

I am having the same problem with my dedicated HTPC. I have pin-pointed exactly when it occurs. If I am watching a movie, listening to MP3s, or watching a pre-recorded TV show, the stutter occurs ONLY when a show starts to record while performing the aforementioned activities. The HTPC I built is very beefy, so I know it isn't underpowered. The stutter only happens for a second, but it is annoying me enough that I would really like to get to the bottom of it. I haven't had any luck with solving the problem yet...

;(

 

[Kirosia]

Could be a driver and/or codec issue. Try downloading the "k-lite codec pack" if you haven't already. (google it)

 

[BodiesOfLight]

Yeah I have the k-lite codec pack. I have Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE Professional and haven't ran it in awhile, but I doubt that is it. Though something might be running in the background that shouldn't be, occasionally sucking up resources.

Hmmm.

 

[mr_baseball_08]

It could just be a software issue with whatever program your using to watch/listen. Whether it be winamp, wmp, etc, etc, it could be completely out of your hands.

 

[c0mfortably_numb]

Could be resources/memory allocation...how much ram you running?

Have you tried alt | cntrl | dlt then taks manager then performance to see if it is peaking....also check processes in the same window and see if there is a particular process that is take up to much CPU resources...

Might want to check your startup folder and start run msconfig and see what is starting up with your PC and get rid of what ever you don't need...

 

[BodiesOfLight]

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Originally Posted by c0mfortably_numb Could be resources/memory allocation...how much ram you running? Have you tried alt | cntrl | dlt then taks manager then performance to see if it is peaking....also check processes in the same window and see if there is a particular process that is take up to much CPU resources... Might want to check your startup folder and start run msconfig and see what is starting up with your PC and get rid of what ever you don't need...

Running 2Gb of ram, I've monitored the performance grid to see any spikes when it happens and I didn't see anything crazy. I will check my startup though.

I notice Mozilla usually taking up the most, but it does it even with Mozilla closed, though I've heard even when Mozilla is close it still sucks up resources?

 

[c0mfortably_numb]

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Originally Posted by BodiesOfLight I notice Mozilla usually taking up the most, but it does it even with Mozilla closed, though I've heard even when Mozilla is close it still sucks up resources?

I've never herd that about Firefox (process even after closed) when it crash's I know I have had a problem with stuck process, I just kill it. Firefox is pretty resource intense but not nearly as bad as it used to be imo, I been running since 1999 when it was I beleive firebird

I built a AMD 64 3200+ (socket 939) about 7 months ago, and only running a gig of ram, Geforce 6200 PciExpress, and I have had a slow down here and there with Power DVD, but nothing like a stutter that I recall. I just figured it was becuase I enable hardware acceleration and deinterlacing...

Edit::
I just noticed in your signature that your running a Sound Blaster Live....I remember when I built my PIII (800 mhz, SB Live, 512mb) When playing MP3's with winamp, and opening any window the sound would cut in and out till it was done loading the process...I wonder if it is the design of that card or a driver.

 

[BodiesOfLight]

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Originally Posted by c0mfortably_numb Edit:: I just noticed in your signature that your running a Sound Blaster Live....I remember when I built my PIII (800 mhz, SB Live, 512mb) When playing MP3's with winamp, and opening any window the sound would cut in and out till it was done loading the process...I wonder if it is the design of that card or a driver.

I've noticed this here and there, does not happen often though, but it might very well be the card since I got it cheap and refurbished, sounds fine though.