SoundStorm Woes?

[Ruroni]

Sometimes, while i am playing Quake 3 Arena online, I hear a delay in sound. I will be playing along just fine, and everything will be working dandy and then all of the sudden my sound will start trailing the events taking place. Like, I will fire and there will be an explosion, but I wont hear it a while after it took place.

I am using an NF7-S Version 2.0, with it's integrated soundstorm sound card. I have the latest drivers (nforce chipset 2.45)and the latest BIOS installed. Actually my motherboard came with the latest BIOS already flashed.

When I went to try to update the BIOS after first receiving my NF7-S, with the Flash utility, "flashmenu" said that I already had the latest BIOS installed. (so I'm a little suspicious that newegg may have sent me an open box item, that may have been returned for some reason) I bought and PAID for a breand new retail item (not refurb). Hopefully I'm wrong or it's something else, because I would hate to pay shipping for return it... Anyways...

What's important is to help me figure out how to trouble shoot sound cards; how to test it for defects. Because for some reason the sound lags and it sounds strange, kind of crackled...

Thanks in advanced for the help.

 

[drewdogg808]

if it's only lagging when playing online, then its probably the internet connection, not the soundstorm. otherwise, perhaps your southbridge is getting too hot...

 

[Ruroni]

Thanks for the reply.

My system temp is 25C and CPU is 40C (according to winbond Hardware Doctor). Does this tell me anything about an overheating southbridge; or I wouldn't be able to tell with this information?

As for my connection I usually carry a ping of 50 +or- 30 (depending on server), I don't think that at this speed I should be having problems. Or would this be something independent of my ping? It has happened to me while my ping was hitting as low as 30

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Start here and check out the nForce Audio & HTPC forum that is stickied in for tons of Soundstorm data. Some never do get their crackling or other issues fixed, while for others, like myself, Soundstorm is near perfect. I don't game online with my Shuttle SN45G cube though either.

 

[Ruroni]

Thenx 4 the reply... I had already gone there, but my situation is not any of the ones listed there

 

[WobbleWobble]

I had sound corruption issues when using the two latest versions of the nForce drivers on my A7N8X-DX. I had to go to Asus' website and download the version on their site, haven't had a problem since.