Sound issue in games

When I play games, they lag for a second every time a sound comes on. After that certain sound comes on, I usually don't have the problem with that sound for awhile. I'm not sure if it's a memory problem because I have 1 gb of RAM, which should be sufficient enough.

I have a Compal HEL80 (VBI) with a T2500 processor. My sound drivers (RealTek) are up to date. What could be causing this? I'm kind of mad that that I bought a gaming laptop and still could not get a decent gaming experience.

 

What game are you experiencing this on? Do you experience it with just that game or on all games you play? And when you say that your sound drivers are up to date, does that mean you have installed newer one than the stock drivers?

I have not experienced this at all on my HEL80.

 

I did experience a sound created lag issue in Oblivion, but I haven't played a lot of other games on this laptop. In my case it was something specific to Oblivion though, as there was even a community mod to fix it, and it wasn't the behavior you describe.

 

Whenever I play half life 2 I have stuttering sound. I need to try with an audigy 2 zs pcmcia to know if it is indeed the sound card. Half life 2 has been infamous for stuttering sound issues but well I never had it that bad before. Overall I tought the sound card had bad performance in linux too so it just might eb a cheap sound card....

Otto.

 

Maybe try running a virus and spyware scan... and reinstalling Oblivion

 

Make sure you do the dual-core fix:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=60416

 

Thats what I was thinking.. I play BF2 and BF2142 on my system without any sound stutters (sound settings on high with EAX)... Doesn't stutter while playing games and running winamp either..

 

EAX works without a creative sound card????? I tought it was a proprietary design of Creative.

Otto.

 

Hmm, I guess I will try the fix. The games I play are nowhere near Oblivion and HL2. I play CS and Red Faction. =/

 

EAX is open.. they have eax 2, and eax 4 HD.. soon those will be open with XiFi or whatever they call it.

I have true 5.1 audio coming out of the headphone port hooked up to my home system... very nice..

 

I tried the fix, but I am still getting problems. I restarted my computer at the restart screen (forgot to read instructions =S) and then did the other stuff later. Would that affect it?

 

Is the issue occuring on both CS and Red Faction?

And are you using the stock drivers for audio? Have you updated BIOS or other drivers as well?

 

It occurs in all the games I have tried (CS, Red Faction, Silk Road, Sims 2). I have updated the drivers for audio from the RealTek website (the ones on my drivers cd were faulty). I have updated the chipset from the Intel website, which I believe is in the 945P family. I will look for some BIOS updates and see what happens.

EDIT: Well, I tried looking for BIOS updates, but I'm pretty confused where to get them and which ones to get.

 

I think the issue could be related to one of the drivers you updated from stock (audio or chipset).

I'm using stock drivers and haven't experienced this problem in any of the 3-4 games I've installed so far.

You may also want to give your reseller's tech support a quick call/email and see what they have to say about this.

 

That's news to me. What kind of connector is it?

 

Digital Audio? Much like the documentation and the driver's application states it has?

(taken from powernotebooks.com)
Audio Features
Built-in 7.1+2 HD Audio Codec (Realtek ALC883)
3D Surround sound
Full Duplex
Built-in stereo speakers and microphone
Mic-in and Headphone-out with S/PDIF ports

Now, I have an Altec 5.1 way-overpowered-for-apartment-living system that plays 5.1 audio tests just fine.. (the kind that goes FRONT LEFT, FRONT RIGHT) and puts the sound only in that channel.

Only requires 1 plug (normally black, and it goes in the "headphone" port)

 

I thought I must have been setting myself up to look stupid... I just hadn't realized that spdif had that hardware available, since I'd not looked into it much, and only seen those larger optical-type jacks, as on my desktop motherboard. I wrote off that description as marketing without noticing. (In light of things such as how they were promoting some graphics cards as hdmi ready or somesuch, when they didn't have an hdmi connector...)

 

Hehe, no problem... I find the audio on this laptop to sound as great as my audigy2 ZS in my desktop when hooked to the same 5.1 speaker set. BF2 and BF2142 sound very convincing when suffering shellshock from an artillery strike

Note that I dont have the audio control panel thing that comes with the driver loaded... I'm just using good old fashioned drivers. *grrs at unnecessary apps trying to steal from my gigs... *

 

I still got stutters from the stock drivers and on top of that, my wav files played in a different pitch from its original. I have emailed my reseller (Cyberpower =/) and they never responded. I guess I'll try again.

 

Through speakers or headphones? Is it way off?

That's unfortunate. Maybe call them so they can't just ignore you like they can emails.

 

Through both headphones and speakers. It's only off by a little bit, but it's still noticable. I'll try calling them when I get back home.