My laptop seems to randomly have audio issues. When i play a game like D2 or run iTunes, the sound will sound all distorted and heavily slow my computer to a point that I almost can't even use it. It has to be my laptop, since I took the same stuff and put it on my wife's laptop and it runs just fine on hers. Wtf could be the problem?

I have an Acer Aspire 5920 and run Microsoft Windows Vista.

This post was edited by marioambriz89 on Nov 3 2009 01:57pm

Sounds like the DirectSound accelleration isn't working properly on said laptop. Have you tried to update the sound drivers yet? First thought that comes to mind is a buggy driver.
If not the driver, you might want to disable directsound accelleration. Run Dxdiag.exe from the start-run menu, then switch to the directsound tab once it's started, and move the accelleration slider to none and see if that fixes it.

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I uninstalled the Audio Driver and re installed it and it seems better. I did this yesterday but there is still some minor slowdown, but not NEARLY as much as before.

what about your audio theme? it could be that the theme is on echo or cave. i saw a similar problem once.

Ok. So now when I run D2 and iTunes at the same time, the audio becomes slow and distorted but only causes very minimal slowdown? rofl? wtf now? As soon as i closed d2, iTunes fixed up but then after a few moments the distorted audio just randomly started/stopped.

This post was edited by marioambriz89 on Nov 5 2009 03:14am

D2 stresses your CPU. I think your drivers/hardware do not handle high CPU loads well. Not much you can do about that... Setting the D2 process to a lower priority may help.

It didn't do it when I got the laptop though. And iTunes still had distortion randomly afterwards. Plus it happens with many 'Game' type applications. Such as my N64 Emulator, and Windows Media Player... BUT oddly enough, It doesn't affect Starcraft. Lawl.

This post was edited by marioambriz89 on Nov 5 2009 12:32pm

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