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    G51Jx 3D audiodg.exe (high cpu usage)

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by joaomaradao, Aug 21, 2010.

  1. joaomaradao

    joaomaradao Notebook Enthusiast

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    I bough this laptop and I'm having a problem with audiodg.exe: sometimes, when I have foobar2000/wmp playing a song or when I'm playing a game, audiodg.exe raises its cpu usage to 13% (100% on one core). I've already tried to check the option to disable all audio enhancements, to update the realtek audio driver, to uninstall the creative software and to do a clean install of windows 7, but nothing worked.
    Any suggestions?
    Btw, the audio codec on my laptop is ALC663.
     
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    Hi joaomaradao, and welcome to the forums :)

    I'd first try disabling the audio enhancements in your audio settings and see if that helps.
     
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    Hi, thanks! I've already tried that (for all the output and input audio devices), but it didn't help :confused2:
     
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    Sorry about the double-post, but after using my laptop a bit more I found another problem: random connection lag.
    I was playing S4 league and suddenly I noticed that my ping to everyone else was within the range of 200-400ms. Then I checked speedtest and got something between 0.25Mb/s and 2.5Mb/s (comparing to the 8.7Mb/s that I usually get).
    After updating the AR9285 driver (to 9.0.0.173) I never got that low bandwidths (5.xxMb/s was the lowest), but I'm still having some random lags.
    You can check those pingtests:
    [​IMG] (While lagging)
    [​IMG] (Not lagging)
    The most weird is that the WiFi signal is between 40% and 60%, and I don't notice any significant signal drop during those lag times.

    Still about the audio problem: do all G51Jx models come with ALC663?
    I'm starting to think that I was only lucky on the RAM (it's 1333MHz instead of 1066MHz :p).