I have been working on this computer for some time and I have resolved issue after issue, but I am thinking that they are all symptoms of a bigger issue - that I am using Windows 7 generic drivers for my Mobo/GFX card. This is my setup:
-ASUS K8N 754 NVIDIA nForce3 250 ATX AMD Motherboard
-3 GB DDR400 running at 200 MHz
-AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 2GHz
-GeForce FX5200 AGP 8x 128 MB DDR
-Sound Blaster Audigy 0090 PCI
Windows 7 boots to desktop in about 30 seconds. It is responsive, until you run some programs. It can stutter or lock up (not just audio, but video).
I am mostly using generic drivers that come with windows. I did pick up kX project drivers for audio which reduced, but did not eliminate stuttering (mostly in silverlight (netflix) but also in Windows Media Center). I am using NVIDIA's latest Forceware driver for Vista that installed fine in Win7. The Mobo drivers are generic Windows, however.
Zoomplayer plays files flawlessly unless they are encoded inefficiently. Civilization 4 will stutter, but the audio is fine since I turned of antialiasing. I feel like this might be a key to the problem because the difference was very distinct: audio was consistently chopped up until I reduced video quality, at which point audio worked nicely even as the video got choppy during intense parts.
I have fully clocked RAM, CPU & GPU with BIOS and there is no differences evident, even in temperatures.
I wanted to use XP and XP drivers (being OEM) but nowadays programs (like silverlight) actually refuse to install in XP. This is fine because in my experience, Windows 7 is faster anyways. But now I have done everything to make this a nice install of Windows 7, got the audio working OK, but it seems bottlenecked in some fashion.
Is this a problem with using generic Mobo drivers? Is there some kind of rational way to test what the bottleneck is? I am frustrated because the hardware can definitely do the minimum of what I want. It seems to be an issue of interfacing with that hardware though.
-ASUS K8N 754 NVIDIA nForce3 250 ATX AMD Motherboard
-3 GB DDR400 running at 200 MHz
-AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 2GHz
-GeForce FX5200 AGP 8x 128 MB DDR
-Sound Blaster Audigy 0090 PCI
Windows 7 boots to desktop in about 30 seconds. It is responsive, until you run some programs. It can stutter or lock up (not just audio, but video).
I am mostly using generic drivers that come with windows. I did pick up kX project drivers for audio which reduced, but did not eliminate stuttering (mostly in silverlight (netflix) but also in Windows Media Center). I am using NVIDIA's latest Forceware driver for Vista that installed fine in Win7. The Mobo drivers are generic Windows, however.
Zoomplayer plays files flawlessly unless they are encoded inefficiently. Civilization 4 will stutter, but the audio is fine since I turned of antialiasing. I feel like this might be a key to the problem because the difference was very distinct: audio was consistently chopped up until I reduced video quality, at which point audio worked nicely even as the video got choppy during intense parts.
I have fully clocked RAM, CPU & GPU with BIOS and there is no differences evident, even in temperatures.
I wanted to use XP and XP drivers (being OEM) but nowadays programs (like silverlight) actually refuse to install in XP. This is fine because in my experience, Windows 7 is faster anyways. But now I have done everything to make this a nice install of Windows 7, got the audio working OK, but it seems bottlenecked in some fashion.
Is this a problem with using generic Mobo drivers? Is there some kind of rational way to test what the bottleneck is? I am frustrated because the hardware can definitely do the minimum of what I want. It seems to be an issue of interfacing with that hardware though.
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