Win XP + Winamp + IE = skip skip skip

[Pepsi90919]

Weird problem, whenever I scroll down even a slightly intensive thread for example, the sound will start to click and pop and make weird noises...any ideas?

Using WaveOut and NTFS if it matters. DirectSound skips like 5 seconds of music every 2 minutes or so for some reason.

 

[Platypus]

That happens in 2kpro too, its just temporary though.

 

[Pepsi90919]

Um, temporary as it may be, it's annoying as hell for it to happen like every 10 seconds.

 

[hpkeeper]

I'd like to know myself... I have that same problem.

 

[gopunk]

in 2k, it only happens on some computers... since mine doesn't do it, but the ones at school do. you can go into winamp's options and tell it to have higher priority or something... that's how i remedy the problem at school, but even then it still skips a little.

 

[syf3r]

i used to have the exact problem when i first installed 2000 a while back, but it also happened in other apps, like scrolling a long word document, etc. it stopped when i updated my video drivers to the latest version.

syf3r.

 

[BDawg]

What are your system specs? I've never noticed it in 2K with a PIII-933, SB Live!, and GeForce DDR.

I just ordered a 1Ghz notebook with XP though...

 

[syf3r]

are you asking me...? at the time it was a dual-450 with (i think) 256mb, and a matrox 450 w/32mb. it was definitely the problem though.. as soon as i overwrote the microsoft-installed/signed drivers, i had no more problems and never have since on that machine.

syf3r.

 

[SSP]

What I noticed about mouse scrolling....

If you scroll really fast at any given time on a website or MSword etc... the CPU usage in Taskmanager goes all the way to 100%. Thats when the skip occurs. I think the scroll weel takes too much resources. I noticed this on my Athlon 600. But that hasnt happened since I started to use a Sound blaster insted of the onboard sound.

Anyway, did you try directsound?

Edited - Forgot I went back to 600mhz.

 

[RSI]

I have a similar problem.

But all my peripherals are PCI right now, and i'm using the ECS K7S5A mobo, some people have had problems with it. I use an SBLive. And before you ask me, YES of course I have disabled the on-board sound and all my bios settings are correct.

I never had this problem with my previous systems (Cyrix MII and AMD K6-2/3+ systems). I don't have any newer video drivers to try, and it does this in any OS I use (Win9x, Win2K, Mandrake 8.0). It's worse with the on-board sound, but still there with the SBLive. Big pain in the ass. As soon as I get an AGP video card, if it doesn't remedy the problem, the SBLive is outta there.

-RSI

 

[Pepsi90919]

SSP, I mentioned about directsound in my first post....it works ok but it just skips entire sections of songs. :|


i have an Athlon 650 with 768 MB of RAM, NVidia TNT2 M64 with the latest drivers on nvidia's site...

 

[SSP]

Hmm.. I just did a test. I went to a thread with 100 posts, played a song in Winamp, then scrolled up and down really fast. The CPU usage went to 80-100% but it never skipped.

If I was still using the onboard sound instead of SB, It would be skipping like crazy. (did the test on Direct sound and wave out).

EDIT - Hmm... Thats weird. I have a Athlon 600, 256MB ram and a G400 vid card. Try playing a song in Mediaplayer or some other MP3 player and see if it skips. This is weird..

 

[Pepsi90919]

still skips in windows media player.

 

[novalogic88]

turn off antivirus if you hvae it

 

[supadupapunky]

It's the smooth style scrolling in IE that causes the high CPU usage (notice Mozilla or Netscrape doesn't exhibit those problems cuz they don't use smooth scrolling).

I fixed these problems by installing the latest video card drivers. I would recommend installing the latest video drivers, sound drivers as well as AGP GART drivers.

 

[Mrfrog840]

happened to me and i had to reformatt and and re-install XP havent had the problem yet. running all three right now