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    Vista OS cause CPU spike

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by chaosd, Feb 22, 2008.

  1. chaosd

    chaosd Newbie

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    Hi,

    I am new to the forum, I recently had a problem that I was wondering if anyone had a solution to. I would be playing CS or watching a movie my cpu would suddenly spike and cause my computer to lag. I looked into the process that caused the spike its called audiodg.exe it is part of Vista OS. I wonder if any way to keep it from spiking.
     
    chaosd, Feb 22, 2008
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  2. nizzy1115

    nizzy1115 Notebook Prophet

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    For me, i found it to be a driver issue between the sound and the AHCI drivers. I proceeded to disable AHCI in the bios and let the laptop run on ATA mode which seems to have mostly fixed the issue for me.
     
    nizzy1115, Feb 22, 2008
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  3. DeadShot2k8

    DeadShot2k8 Notebook Guru

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    I got the same spike problem myself ... whether it is related to audio drivers, not sure. I still need to fumble around with it.
     
    DeadShot2k8, Feb 22, 2008
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  4. Fade To Black

    Fade To Black The Bad Ass

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    If I'm not mistaken AudioDG is the thing that lets you isolate the sound sources (like if you want to silence Firefox this service does it).
     
    Fade To Black, Feb 22, 2008
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  5. Nocturnal310

    Nocturnal310 Notebook Virtuoso

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    closing AudioDG shuts down Audio on the computer is it? ..ya same issue...



    Maybe they were trying to fix the CPU spike issue via update? but it didnt help coz the Windows Update to my Sound driver Killed my Audio so i had to Rollback..
     
    Nocturnal310, Feb 22, 2008
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