Sound looping and frame freeze during gaming

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  1. Posts : 2,072
    Windows 7 x64 Professional SP1
       #11

    Hello again svennd,

    Sorry for the rather late follow up, but i have been occupied.

    Another step I'd like you take (after reading about these new findings of yours), is to peform a Clean Boot by unchecking everything in msconfig>Startup and rebooting after that...

    After that, download and run process explorer while running the game in windowed mode and to take 2 screenshots of process explorer sorted by CPU usage; one before the problem occurs and one when the problem occurs and upload it here using the previous tutorial for uploading i linked to you earlier on.

    Process Explorer

    Here's mine for example sorted by CPU usage:-

    Sound looping and frame freeze during gaming-capture3.png
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  2. Posts : 29
    Windows 7 professional 32bit
    Thread Starter
       #12

    Hello solarmystic, for a weird reason, the issue resolved. I updated seemingly unrelated items and the issue is gone. I installed a package who added HP_TOOLS partition (original), the bios kinda seems looking for items in that partition. Also I installed a tool for raid configuration. (I only have 1 hard drive so I wouldn't guess the connection)

    Other then that I haven't installed stuff, or changed stuff, but the issue seems to be gone :/ I will search further on this, but for now, I guess I only have to thank you for your support!

    Once I found the issue, ill report it back here, thx Solarmystic !
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  3. Posts : 2,072
    Windows 7 x64 Professional SP1
       #13

    Glad you got it sorted out! Will be here for your reports, if any..
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  4. Posts : 29
    Windows 7 professional 32bit
    Thread Starter
       #14

    Yeah, I posted to fast, it happened again, but only on a very low frequency, I had it once (3 seconds sound loop) during 2-3 hours of playing.

    But my games are playable again, and that was in essence I was going after.
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  5. Posts : 29
    Windows 7 professional 32bit
    Thread Starter
       #15

    Just for the completeness of this topic.

    I installed these software from hp website
    - ADI SoundMAX AD1984A Audio Driver for Microsoft Windows 7
    - Intel AMT Driver
    - Intel Matrix Storage Manager Driver
    - HP 3D DriveGuard
    - HP System Diagnostics UEFI

    I think that the last tool was the "fix" it added a new partition called HP_TOOLS it was there on default install, and i know BIOS needs some stuff from that partition in order to give some functionality. (pre-OS presentation, mail & web)
    The issue itself is not completely gone, but hardly testable for solutions. I noted that my ping turns horrible when it occurs. (25->+800-+999)
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  6. Posts : 2,072
    Windows 7 x64 Professional SP1
       #16

    svennd said:
    Just for the completeness of this topic.

    I installed these software from hp website
    - ADI SoundMAX AD1984A Audio Driver for Microsoft Windows 7
    - Intel AMT Driver
    - Intel Matrix Storage Manager Driver
    - HP 3D DriveGuard
    - HP System Diagnostics UEFI

    I think that the last tool was the "fix" it added a new partition called HP_TOOLS it was there on default install, and i know BIOS needs some stuff from that partition in order to give some functionality. (pre-OS presentation, mail & web)
    The issue itself is not completely gone, but hardly testable for solutions. I noted that my ping turns horrible when it occurs. (25->+800-+999)
    If you'd like some suggestions into improving/stablizing your gaming ping, have look at what i wrote in this thread:-

    FPS Spiking and Low FPS While Playing Online Games
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  7. Posts : 29
    Windows 7 professional 32bit
    Thread Starter
       #17

    This is so damn frustrating, I thought it was fixed now its back :/

    I added both screenshots for the process explorer, and I'm going to try the guide on game ping.

    What happens is that during the game my cpu is around 50% and it suddenly drops hard, and "system idle process" takes over. (seemingly there is nothing to do ?)
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails Sound looping and frame freeze during gaming-pre.png   Sound looping and frame freeze during gaming-during.png   Sound looping and frame freeze during gaming-during_oke.png  
    Last edited by svennd; 12 Jul 2012 at 04:36. Reason: added during when oke
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  8. Posts : 2,072
    Windows 7 x64 Professional SP1
       #18

    Did you perform the Clean boot like I told you to in my previous post, before trying the game out and taking those two screenshots?

    solarmystic said:
    Another step I'd like you take (after reading about these new findings of yours), is to peform a Clean Boot by unchecking everything in msconfig>Startup and rebooting after that...
    I see some unrelated processes in Process Monitor which shouldn't be there.

    Nevermind that, follow these new instructions for performing a Clean Boot:-

    1) Click Start, type msconfig in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.

    2) If you are prompted for an administrator password or for a confirmation, type the password, or click Continue.

    3) On the General tab, click Selective Startup.

    4) Under Selective Startup, click to clear the Load Startup Items check box.

    5) Click the Services tab, click to select the Hide All Microsoft Services check box, and then click Disable All

    6) Click OK.

    7) When you are prompted, click Restart.

    (You can easily reverse those steps If you need to when we're done troubleshooting)

    Then, play the game again, and see whether the issue occurs.

    EDIT:-

    A thought just occured to me. Try this:-

    Run the game like usual. Alt-Tab and head to Task Manager (Ctrl-Shift-Esc), find the ET.exe process and right click on it, select CPU Affinity (set affinity), tick only one CPU (CPU 0 or CPU 1) in the next box, and press ok, and go back to your game.

    See whether the problems still occur.
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  9. Posts : 29
    Windows 7 professional 32bit
    Thread Starter
       #19

    Yep, for ET this seems to solve the problem. Weird, maybe some updates broke stuff :/ ?

    Again thx you very much.
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  10. Posts : 2,072
    Windows 7 x64 Professional SP1
       #20

    svennd said:
    Yep, for ET this seems to solve the problem. Weird, maybe some updates broke stuff :/ ?

    Again thx you very much.

    Glad to know.. once again, thanks for following up on this problem with us, so that others can benefit.
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