Vortex II sound problem?

[QueBert]

Hay, my friend is having a strange problem with his system.

specs k6-2 500
128 megs
not sure about MB
Vortex II Digital? (the reference Vor2 card)
Windows 98

when he's playing mp3's they start to pause up quite a bit, especially depending on what else he is doing, it seems like some times even moving the mouse or clicking the scroll wheel can cause it to do it. I have the last Vortex 2 reference drivers I could find installed. His swap file is set to 1 1/2 times his memory. I've gone into Winamp and tried setting the buffers higher. Also tried listening to music with Media Player 2, same issues came up. I looked in the system settings and didn't see any ICQ/DMA conflicts (what I initally thought it might be) Any ideas what else this could be?

thanks

 

[Jeff7]

In Device Manager, make sure that DMA is enabled on your hard drive. What drivers are you using for the vortex card? The latest ones were the 2048 drivers.

Which Output plugin are you using? I'm using The Nullsoft waveOut. It's set to 7s, and the Priority slider is set to Time Critical. Give those a try.

 

[QueBert]

DMA is enabled for the HD, as for output, I tried both waveout, and the other one (can't remember the name) with just about every buffer setting I could do. I will try 7s with time critical. I'm about to go back over and try defraggin his HD, doubt that's it but I never know with PC's hehe...

 

[Slikkster]

I'd look at the video card/drivers. Try setting the video acceleration down (temporarily) as a simple test and see if that changes anything. It's in the Display Properties section. What video card/drivers is he using?

 

[FPSguy]

If the motherboard has the VIA chipset, it could be that PCI latency issue. If so, you could try updating the motherboard's firmware and drivers and searching the 'Net for the PCI latency patch.

Also, I have seen McAfee Antivirus cause similar things. If he is using McAfee try disabling it and seeing if that fixes the problem. If it does, get Norton or something.

 

[Tannah]

Go to www.vortexofsound.com
I believe they have the fix there... aslo make sure your using the latest drivers..