Windows 7: stuttering in games. (mainly valve)

mine seems to be gone as well but i think im so anal any lil thing that happens im just waiting for it to happen again almost like im looking for the problem to happen.

That guy also made an update to his post.

Hey guys, glad my thread was helpful. A little +rep would be nice. Also, I have updated my post and extended it. While that registry fix helps smooth things out and reduce lag, I noticed in other games it could cause audio glitches. So I found another fix (more elegant), where you leave MMCSS running, but you disable the network throttling aspect of it (instead of nuking the entire thing). That way you get lag free games and balanced audio.

http://www.sevenforums.com/sound-aud...tml#post331641

Satorious, would you mind updating your original post so people know about the fix without having to go to the 8th page? Also, I see this fix helped and you have a quad core, which is very interesting, I thought only older, slower systems would have this issue, but it seems I was wrong.

I didn't disabled MMCSS, I just did the reg fix. MMCSS shutdown itself anyway after booting. I think you can keep you on-board turned on if you need it.
I myself have it. Has the advantage others can watch movies and get sound from stereo while I keep playing with my headset.

Beside that I'm the only one thinking X-Fi drivers are crap?
Considering the abilities of my on-board Realtek HD Audio to X-Fi Titanium with it lousy drivers, I regret the money I spent. EAX 5 is nice, but don't offset the investment.
Their drivers should the most stable you can get, at least compared to a free on-board sound.
I think when they missed the change from selling soundcards to consumers, to directly selling chips to mainboard manufacturer their company went downhill.

everyone that did this fix can you upload your specs so we can determine if its mainly singe core or multi cores.

that would be very helpful, thank you.

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400

Something I've noticed that helped performance is disk cache flushing, Fear 2 was taking forever to load and would lag real bad but after I checked to disable windows right-cache buffer flushing it was better. Though mind you all I have is Fear2 and CSS installed. =P CSS works fine.