Question for the sound experts

[Warmongo]

I have Win 7 64-bit. I have a very fast system with 32 gigs of ram. I have sound buffering delays in AH. My sound card is a SoundBlaster Z PCIe. I have read that these issues are due to Win 7 and the way it handles sound. I notice this a the beginning of a sound. It's a stutter, then it goes away. It's not bad with other programs like FSX and Digital Combat Simulator. Comments?

[Chilli]

I am no expert.  But stutters?  Could that be a resource problem?  It is best to post your dxiag and let the real experts take a look.  With the dxdiag, you only need to show the cpu, memory, gpu, OS, and audio info (that should take up less room).  Just cut and paste it into a text file and then post.

Other than that, AH takes up a lot of resources (not sure if that is the right word), so I would also see if dialing back your video in game settings improves the sound quality (less stutters) or do you get video stutters also associated with game play?

[715]

Ah... someone with 32 Gigabytes of RAM has resource issues??? 

[Chalenge]

Make sure the PCIe slot you have the SB Z plugged into is not a shared IRQ (usually if it is shared it will be with the secondary SATA controller). There are two ways to fix it if that is the issue. Either move it to a PCIe slot that is a non-shared IRQ slot, or defeat the secondary SATA controller in your BIOS. If it is conflicting with an IRQ that absolutely must be used by another device, then moving to another slot is the only cure.

[guncrasher]

what about your video card?  and which internet provider are you using, is it satellite?  and also have you ever been associated or know to associate in your household with a file sharing program.  and lastly who's your av program.


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[Skuzzy]

Ah... someone with 32 Gigabytes of RAM has resource issues???  

Does not matter.  The computer can have 1TB of system RAM.  Windows will only allow a 32 bit application to use a single 4GB page of that.  Take away the Windows part of that page and a 32 bit application only has about 3GB of RAM for real use.

Make sure the PCIe slot you have the SB Z plugged into is not a shared IRQ (usually if it is shared it will be with the secondary SATA controller). There are two ways to fix it if that is the issue. Either move it to a PCIe slot that is a non-shared IRQ slot, or defeat the secondary SATA controller in your BIOS. If it is conflicting with an IRQ that absolutely must be used by another device, then moving to another slot is the only cure.

This is a good possibility.  Make sure that your sound card is NOT sharing an IRQ with the onboard sound device, if that sound device is active or any other high data demand device (hard drive, network adapter....).

[Warmongo]

Graphics card is a NVidia GTX 690. I have both cable and DSL providers is the house. It happens with both. No other file sharing. Pings to server steady 30-60 ms. Will check IRQs but a little bird....... . Thank you for the advice. Will post if any changes.