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    Acer 8920G Gaming performance - audio related..

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by goodisonblue, Jul 20, 2008.

  1. goodisonblue

    goodisonblue Newbie

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    Hi all

    Bought an 8920g last month

    Was expecting it to handle games like unreal tournamet 3 and tiger woods golf 2008 comfortably.

    However it struggles very badly with choppy graphics and low fps

    Looked at resource monitor and it seems that the Vista sound managemnt service audiodg.exe is totally hammering cpu usage when playing games which presumably is causing the performance issues

    Looked at updating the Realtek Driver but the Acer site still has the original one for download

    Anyone else had this problem ?

    Many thanks

    Mark
     
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    ATG 2x4 Super Moderator

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    goodisonblue Newbie

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    Thanks

    Is that ok to use - i wasn't sure if Acer did extra tweaking or config of the drivers

    Can always do a rollback i guess
     
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    Yeah you can always rollback to the old driver.

    I use the drivers from Realtek's site not from ACER. No problems. You cannot expect ACER to maintain all the drivers up to date..
     
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    TehSuigi Notebook Virtuoso

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    I thought that using non-Acer drivers removed the functionality of your Tuba booster.
     
    TehSuigi, Jul 20, 2008
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