Hello Tom's Forum. Yesterday i was playing a game quite a bit, with no problems at all. Then, just before i went to bed, i installed a new driver for my graphics card, and installed three new updates for vista.
These were:
- "Security Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB958644)"
- "Cumulative Update for Media Center for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB955519)"
-"Update for Microsoft Silverlight (KB957938)"
However, today when i brought my computer out of hibernation, my game was quite laggy, so i rebooted, which also allowed the new drivers i installed to become active. So i loaded up my game once i reached windows, and the first thing i noticed was the very jumpy, stuttery, crackly music on the main menu of the game. You can hear the music, but it has lots of little ticks and crackles of varying intensity. It also happens for any music play back, and even the windows vista alert sound effects. So i re-installed the driver for my sound card, (which is a realtek HD), which didn't work. I updated my k-light audio codec pack, that didn't work either. I uninstalled the new windows updates apart from the silverlight patch as it wouldn't let me, and that didn't work either. Finally i just rolled back my graphics card drivers to the previous one. That didn't work either.
I have no idea what this could be. I have noticed that things seem to get visually laggy slightly just when the jumps in audio occur.
In the Realtek HD interface for configuring speakers, you can click on a speaker and it'll emit sound from that speaker. It will also give a little sound-wave animation that emanates from the image of the speaker. When i click a speaker and the audio is distorted, the animation also lags very slightly.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have a Q6600 processor and an 8800GT graphics card. As well as 4 gigs of ram.
Thanks!
These were:
- "Security Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB958644)"
- "Cumulative Update for Media Center for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB955519)"
-"Update for Microsoft Silverlight (KB957938)"
However, today when i brought my computer out of hibernation, my game was quite laggy, so i rebooted, which also allowed the new drivers i installed to become active. So i loaded up my game once i reached windows, and the first thing i noticed was the very jumpy, stuttery, crackly music on the main menu of the game. You can hear the music, but it has lots of little ticks and crackles of varying intensity. It also happens for any music play back, and even the windows vista alert sound effects. So i re-installed the driver for my sound card, (which is a realtek HD), which didn't work. I updated my k-light audio codec pack, that didn't work either. I uninstalled the new windows updates apart from the silverlight patch as it wouldn't let me, and that didn't work either. Finally i just rolled back my graphics card drivers to the previous one. That didn't work either.
I have no idea what this could be. I have noticed that things seem to get visually laggy slightly just when the jumps in audio occur.
In the Realtek HD interface for configuring speakers, you can click on a speaker and it'll emit sound from that speaker. It will also give a little sound-wave animation that emanates from the image of the speaker. When i click a speaker and the audio is distorted, the animation also lags very slightly.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have a Q6600 processor and an 8800GT graphics card. As well as 4 gigs of ram.
Thanks!