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Stutters in audio when resizing windows?
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 3:28 pm
by flateric
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
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 3:52 pm
by djake
i used to get it with fruity loops when i was still using it and that was a good 2 years ago lol
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 4:10 pm
by faun2500
Might be the buffer size of your soundcard. Try raising.
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 4:30 pm
by paradigm_x
network adapters, especially wireless, are terrible (great?) at fucking up your audio.
Disable anything you dont need in bios/device manager.
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:08 pm
by flateric
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.
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:33 pm
by Disco Nutter
If you read the link you gave us, you'd see what it says about network stuff
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:40 pm
by flateric
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
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 9:41 pm
by ta7
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.
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 8:08 pm
by pk-
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
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:29 pm
by flateric
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.