Menu lag with Soundblaster

[chris_h]

Hi Tom and everyone,

I'm seeing some intermittent lag moving round the menus when I use an SB Live card. Also the clicks are being missed or not defined properly. If I disable card and use onboard AC97 this goes away but quality is less good for jukebox. Same results using 3.44 and previous 3.38. This is using MCE on P4 3G / 512Mb. No other apps running.

Hopefully theres an answer or fix ?

Not seen such probs with these cards generally under MCE and I like to use them 'cause they're cheap and give a 'real' sound.

many thanks,

Chris.. (MK, UK)

[Tom Speirs]

Hi Tom and everyone,

I'm seeing some intermittent lag moving round the menus when I use an SB Live card. Also the clicks are being missed or not defined properly. If I disable card and use onboard AC97 this goes away but quality is less good for jukebox. Same results using 3.44 and previous 3.38. This is using MCE on P4 3G / 512Mb. No other apps running.

Hopefully theres an answer or fix ?

Not seen such probs with these cards generally under MCE and I like to use them 'cause they're cheap and give a 'real' sound.

many thanks,

Chris.. (MK, UK)

Hi Chris,

Only possible thing I can think of giving back a little CPU utilitisation by adjusting the setting under Tweaks/Performance. That might do it as you have a powerfull machine.

Also, is this still an issue with the Jukebox disabled.

[h8sh8]

This may not help at all, but you might be able to narrow down some of the possibilities. I don't have the same problems and are using a SBLive. I'm using a P4 2.8 / 256mb ram with WinXP pro and I have mp3s playing in the background. I also made my own background pic at a higher res (1600x1800) and have tried using videos instead of screenshots. I've sometimes had a quite few apps running too (Firefox with 10-15 tabs open for example).