Audio is lagging

[ShArP]

About a week ago all the sound that has been coming out of my computer has been lagging every few seconds if i am listening to anyone on iTunes, Youtube, Myspace, etc., I updated the sound drivers and it is still doing the same thing.

here is system specs:

Manufacturer: HP-Pavilion
Processor: Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E6300 @ 2.80GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 4096MB RAM
Hard Drive: 500 GB Total
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 4650
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_rtm.090713-1255)

and i think this is what kind of sound drivers are on my computer:
Realtek High Definition Audio
ATI High Definition Audio Device

thanks in advanced

 

[zigzag3143]

About a week ago all the sound that has been coming out of my computer has been lagging every few seconds if i am listening to anyone on iTunes, Youtube, Myspace, etc., I updated the sound drivers and it is still doing the same thing.

here is system specs:

Manufacturer: HP-Pavilion
Processor: Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E6300 @ 2.80GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 4096MB RAM
Hard Drive: 500 GB Total
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 4650
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_rtm.090713-1255)

and i think this is what kind of sound drivers are on my computer:
Realtek High Definition Audio
ATI High Definition Audio Device

thanks in advanced

So it worked before, and something happened, and now its not. What happened?

 

[IggyAZ]

Hi and welcome.
What type of speakers do you have setup? If you have setup Surround Sound speakers I'd suggest to try and setup to standard sterio 2 speakers setup. Also if it is Dolby 5.1 could also make this happen.
If you have it setup for 2 sterio speakers and that's all you have I'd still look into the sound icon in the control panel and look close at all the setting. Any changes I'd reboot to see if they changed anything.

My 2 cents and hope something helps.

 

[ShArP]

Hi and welcome.
What type of speakers do you have setup? If you have setup Surround Sound speakers I'd suggest to try and setup to standard sterio 2 speakers setup. Also if it is Dolby 5.1 could also make this happen.
If you have it setup for 2 sterio speakers and that's all you have I'd still look into the sound icon in the control panel and look close at all the setting. Any changes I'd reboot to see if they changed anything.

My 2 cents and hope something helps.

i got it setup for 2 stereo speakers and that is what i have, i am not sure what changes to even make because everything looks fine in the sound control panel

 

[not so gray matter]

Are you running multiple applications when your sound lags?
Does it lag all of the time or does it only lag at certain points?
Do you know your exact model of sound card?
If not, do you know the exact model of your computer?

If you can't tell us what model of sound card you have, we can't point you towards the correct drivers. Since most sound related problems result from conflicting drivers, you may want to check to see exactly what kind of hardware you have so that you can uninstall the drivers you don't need and update the ones you do.

 

[ShArP]

Are you running multiple applications when your sound lags?
Does it lag all of the time or does it only lag at certain points?
Do you know your exact model of sound card?
If not, do you know the exact model of your computer?

If you can't tell us what model of sound card you have, we can't point you towards the correct drivers. Since most sound related problems result from conflicting drivers, you may want to check to see exactly what kind of hardware you have so that you can uninstall the drivers you don't need and update the ones you do.

well if i have iTunes up, and i open up my Firefox, when i am loading pages it does it and that is all that i have up and it does it, i can just be listening to something on Firefox with Firefox being the only program up and the sound still lags

and this is about the best i can do finding the model of my sound card, other than this i have no clue how to find more info on it:

and the model of my computer:

thanks to all who is trying to help

 

[Aphelion]

You already listed the model sound card, you have Realtek HD audio, there's only a single driver available for all of the HD audio chips so you're OK there.

The sound lagging is often because of too many background processes running... are you running virus/malware protection software? When Firefox is open and loading webpages your virus software is very active, depending on what you're using there may be processor spikes causing the lagging. Windows-7 does not have the most efficient audio subsystem (yet).

Ap

 

[ShArP]

You already listed the model sound card, you have Realtek HD audio, there's only a single driver available for all of the HD audio chips so you're OK there.

The sound lagging is often because of too many background processes running... are you running virus/malware protection software? When Firefox is open and loading webpages your virus software is very active, depending on what you're using there may be processor spikes causing the lagging. Windows-7 does not have the most efficient audio subsystem (yet).

Ap

i did have Ad-Aware up, and i turned it off, and i also turned off my anti-viruses web page scanner to see how it works, seems to be working fine as of right now. Seemed like there are a lot of spikes in the web shield.

thanks

 

[IggyAZ]

About a week ago all the sound that has been coming out of my computer has been lagging every few seconds if i am listening to anyone on iTunes, Youtube, Myspace, etc., I updated the sound drivers and it is still doing the same thing.

here is system specs:

Manufacturer: HP-Pavilion
Processor: Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E6300 @ 2.80GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 4096MB RAM
Hard Drive: 500 GB Total
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 4650
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_rtm.090713-1255)

and i think this is what kind of sound drivers are on my computer:
Realtek High Definition Audio
ATI High Definition Audio Device

thanks in advanced

WOW! I also see you are overclocking your CPU from 1.86 to 2.8Ghz
That is like 33% from default.

 

[ShArP]

yea, i am still getting some sound lag even after shutting off tons of programs i had running in the background and restarting my computer, any other suggestions?

 

[Aphelion]

yea, i am still getting some sound lag even after shutting off tons of programs i had running in the background and restarting my computer, any other suggestions?

Completely disabling or shutting off (quiting process) in task manager.
You understand quitting a process in task manager only kills the process temporarily and it restarts after a reboot.

Are you by any chance running a peer to peer network?
If there's a conflict with your Internet adapter you may have some problems.

Might want to take a look at any of the "Services" that relate to your video card, you can set them to manual and/or Stop the service to test.

Might want to look at this thread.

http://www.sevenforums.com/sound-audio/73543-dpc-latency.html

Ap

 

[ShArP]

i am running that program and it is staying in the green constantly, and i think i fixed the problem. In my task manager there is 2 programs that keep on taking up the memory, and i have no clue or way to shut them off, looked for them in the the programs that start up and are currently running, so i figure that i will just keep shutting them off manually isn't the biggest deal in the world.

but thanks everyone for your help, if i have any more problems i shall be back

 

[Aphelion]

i am running that program and it is staying in the green constantly, and i think i fixed the problem. In my task manager there is 2 programs that keep on taking up the memory, and i have no clue or way to shut them off, looked for them in the the programs that start up and are currently running, so i figure that i will just keep shutting them off manually isn't the biggest deal in the world.

but thanks everyone for your help, if i have any more problems i shall be back

Wait, what programs? Dang you ShArP!

If you want to shut them off permanently open a "command prompt" or use the "run" selection and type msconfig go to the "startup" tab and you can see a list of background programs being run.

Ap

 

[ShArP]

well i made sure that my Ad-Aware was not coming on, because i guess i had that auto turn on when my computer came on

Also i have had my anti-viruses web scanner turned off, but im gonna test it by turning it on and see if that is what it was causing the problem or not

and there is some windows program that i am not sure how to turn off, and it sometimes doesn't come on when I start my computer, but i shut it off through the task manager and it is normally taking up 20-30 CPU and 500+ MB or memory. It is called nkaqia.exe and i searched Google on it and didn't find anything. But since turning that off is when the audio stopped lagging.

 

[Aphelion]

and there is some windows program that i am not sure how to turn off, and it sometimes doesn't come on when I start my computer, but i shut it off through the task manager and it is normally taking up 20-30 CPU and 500+ MB or memory. It is called nkaqia.exe and i searched Google on it and didn't find anything. But since turning that off is when the audio stopped lagging.

I've never heard of that, the spelling is nkaqia ?

I would say using 20-30% CPU and 500MB memory is more than excessive for a background process/program.

Anyone here know what that is?

Ap

 

[Glennovich]

Hi,

I am having the exact same problem on my Sony VAIO VGN-NW21SF/T. It started around two months ago and at first I thought it was an issue with iTunes, but the problem also occurs in WinAmp, Windows Media Player, VLC Player and QuickTime. It goes for both audio and video.

DPC Latency Checker confirms that there is a problem about every 30 seconds or so, but I am not able to locate what causes this.

I have tried to disable/re-enable all the hardware to be found under Device Manger except the bottom three on the list below as I do not know what the consequences are. It has all been to no avail.

I have also tried booting my Windows with signatured drivers only and that was no help either. Any suggestions for a fix?

Best regards,

/Glenn

 

[pwange04]

I realize this is late, but...
I was having the same problem, and fixed it with this:

click sound options in lower left corner(typically) --)
click the top speaker icon that comes up in a small popup --)
go to advanced setting and change the default format to cd quality.

Good luck