Ok My specs are as follows first
Windows XP Pro SP2
Asus P4P800 SE Delux board 478 socket
Pentium 4 2.8ghz dual core
3 gigs of ram
GeForce 7800 GS
Realtek 97 onboard audio (disabled in bios)
Just bought a Sound Blaster Xtreme Audio to hopefully help performance in games... /fail
Installed card as required, drivers on everything are up to date. Bios is vanilla and I hear about dual core processor drivers but I can't find any.
My problem is. While performing some strenuous tasks on my computer I.E. Gaming and listening to a media player (I used to be able to do this no problem)doesn't matter which one I get terrible crackling noises and frame rates bite the dust hard. I don't even have to have a media player open sometimes it just starts failing in the middle of a gun fight and I have watched processor performance in the task manager and it is insane, both cores up at 50% just idle and if I grab the task manager window and wiggle it it shoots to 80% on both cores lol... if I open the Creative Driver Device and click Default... everything goes normal for a little while (like right now I am posting this and listening to Winamp). as long as I don't do anything to demanding. Pretty new to anything audio here... it started doing this before the soundblaster card though just not as bad so either it is getting worse or the card amplified the problem. Please someone save me from my own destruction
I used to run CS:Source at max settings 70+ frames in a packed server ... now I get to lagg to death... this is a pretty fresh install of XP also
Windows XP Pro SP2
Asus P4P800 SE Delux board 478 socket
Pentium 4 2.8ghz dual core
3 gigs of ram
GeForce 7800 GS
Realtek 97 onboard audio (disabled in bios)
Just bought a Sound Blaster Xtreme Audio to hopefully help performance in games... /fail
Installed card as required, drivers on everything are up to date. Bios is vanilla and I hear about dual core processor drivers but I can't find any.
My problem is. While performing some strenuous tasks on my computer I.E. Gaming and listening to a media player (I used to be able to do this no problem)doesn't matter which one I get terrible crackling noises and frame rates bite the dust hard. I don't even have to have a media player open sometimes it just starts failing in the middle of a gun fight and I have watched processor performance in the task manager and it is insane, both cores up at 50% just idle and if I grab the task manager window and wiggle it it shoots to 80% on both cores lol... if I open the Creative Driver Device and click Default... everything goes normal for a little while (like right now I am posting this and listening to Winamp). as long as I don't do anything to demanding. Pretty new to anything audio here... it started doing this before the soundblaster card though just not as bad so either it is getting worse or the card amplified the problem. Please someone save me from my own destruction
I used to run CS:Source at max settings 70+ frames in a packed server ... now I get to lagg to death... this is a pretty fresh install of XP also
