Stutters in audio when resizing windows?

flateric · Post by **flateric** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 3:28 pm

Does anyone else here have any issues with audio stutters when minimalising/maximising/restoring windows? I still haven't found the cause of mine (although http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml reports that my system doesn't suffer from DPC) but from what I've read so far it can be caused by your bios revision, graphics drivers, DAW or crap hardware. It's not a massive problem but it is annoying. I'll post results if I find a solution; just thought I bring it to everyones attention, problem shared etc

djake · Post by **djake** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 3:52 pm

i used to get it with fruity loops when i was still using it and that was a good 2 years ago lol

faun2500 · Post by **faun2500** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 4:10 pm

Might be the buffer size of your soundcard. Try raising.

paradigm_x · Post by **paradigm_x** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 4:30 pm

network adapters, especially wireless, are terrible (great?) at fucking up your audio.

Disable anything you dont need in bios/device manager.

flateric · Post by **flateric** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:08 pm

faun2500 wrote:Might be the buffer size of your soundcard. Try raising.

Definitely not my buffer size.

Paradigm X wrote:network adapters, especially wireless, are terrible (great?) at fucking up your audio.

Disable anything you dont need in bios/device manager.

Didn't know that network adapters also cause trouble. Atm I use the pc I produce on for everything so disabling hardware to produce would be a bother. Looking into virtualisation atm and VMware to see what it can offer.

Disco Nutter · Post by **Disco Nutter** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:33 pm

If you read the link you gave us, you'd see what it says about network stuff

flateric · Post by **flateric** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:40 pm

Johnny Beat wrote:If you read the link you gave us, you'd see what it says about network stuff

Only just discovered the subject and haven't had any time for heavy reading

ta7 · Post by **ta7** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 9:41 pm

The way Windows deals with windows (ha!) is a bit weird. When you minimize / maximize it stops and starts the render-loop for the GUI. This means that more CPU power will be required for a brief moment while the window draws itself for the first time.

Try setting the process priority of your DAW higher. Open task manager and right click on the process and set priority. Be careful with the realtime setting, it is only really used for drivers and backend stuff.

Hope this helps.

pk- · Post by **pk-** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 8:08 pm

the way to fix this is by turning off animations for minimising/maximising windows

Start > Control Panel > System > Advanced tab > 'Settings' button in
'Performance' section > untick "Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing"

wouldn't suggest fucking about with the process priority

flateric · Post by **flateric** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:29 pm

pk- wrote:the way to fix this is by turning off animations for minimising/maximising windows

Start > Control Panel > System > Advanced tab > 'Settings' button in
'Performance' section > untick "Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing"

wouldn't suggest fucking about with the process priority

Works for me.

Stutters in audio when resizing windows?

Stutters in audio when resizing windows?

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