i figured out vdeck.exe (part of the onboard audio a program related to it) was causing this problem! My audio still works without vdeck.exe running. I might just switch to a PCI sound card again.
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am running this new box i built recently, athlon ii x4 quad core, 4gb memory, ati readon hd 5770, mobo= ASUS M4A79XTD EVO AM3 790X, using onboard audio
it has been working great thus far, runs crysis and gta4 great.
however I am clueless at how winamp can slow my system to a crawl and near being useless.
it is easy to reproduce this.
basically, all i have to do is switch to the next song in my winamp playlist, so pressing B (fast) to go to the next song up ahead 10 tracks will always reproduce this problem thus far.
but doing the same thing in other media players does not slow my system to a crawl.
defining how slow it gets, basically everything (except the audio) has a lagged response and is slowed down **extremely**, this includes typing and window responsiveness, seemingly almost everything except the audio sounds just fine.
i tried the following to try and fix this (but none of this helped unless otherwise said)
> removing all winamp plugins except in_mp3 and out_ds
> setting winamp process priority to below normal.
> disabling defense+ on comodo firewall (& rebooting)
after i process kill winamp, the system remains in a slow (but somewhat faster) state for 20-30 seconds and after that it seems to return to its normal fast speed.
this is really .. really weird and annoying.
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am running this new box i built recently, athlon ii x4 quad core, 4gb memory, ati readon hd 5770, mobo= ASUS M4A79XTD EVO AM3 790X, using onboard audio
it has been working great thus far, runs crysis and gta4 great.
however I am clueless at how winamp can slow my system to a crawl and near being useless.
it is easy to reproduce this.
basically, all i have to do is switch to the next song in my winamp playlist, so pressing B (fast) to go to the next song up ahead 10 tracks will always reproduce this problem thus far.
but doing the same thing in other media players does not slow my system to a crawl.
defining how slow it gets, basically everything (except the audio) has a lagged response and is slowed down **extremely**, this includes typing and window responsiveness, seemingly almost everything except the audio sounds just fine.
i tried the following to try and fix this (but none of this helped unless otherwise said)
> removing all winamp plugins except in_mp3 and out_ds
> setting winamp process priority to below normal.
> disabling defense+ on comodo firewall (& rebooting)
after i process kill winamp, the system remains in a slow (but somewhat faster) state for 20-30 seconds and after that it seems to return to its normal fast speed.
this is really .. really weird and annoying.
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