hi!

i upgraded to DirectX 9.0b for windows 2000 three days ago and now, after using many different program -from NHL 2003 to WinMX-, sound gives me problems, that is, while i listen to mp3s , the sound slows and clicks and other similar pretty things

i usually use winamp or foobar 2k, so i think the problem may be in the new DirectX (audio) drivers....

after a clean restart, all goes well, until i use the pc multitasking -i mean, for example, foobar2k + winmx + word...-

i'm searching a lot in the microsoft knowledge base but my awful english -as you can see - couldn't help me to find useful threads....

thanks in advance

bye

From which DirectX version have you upgraded? 9.0, 9.0a, other?

from 9.0a

That's really scary. Which soundcard do you have?
Have you tried new soundcard drivers? (if there are any)

Heh, I tell you what's scarry.

I got all sorts of corruptions, random chrashes, programs taking unreal amount of memory, pagefile growing and other sorts of fun straight after upgrading from 9.0a.
Only way i've found to bring the system to normal state was reinstalling via drivers.

Then as soon as I burn something on cd, here we go again.

So just recently I reinstalled xp (from sp1-slipstreamed cd), dxdiag shows now 9.0a, although I thought you can't revert dx to other version even after system reinstall.

Whatever it is, but 9.0b + my machine = evil.

I'm not installing it then.

/EDIT\ Or maybe... have to reinstall Windows anyway \EDIT/

I installed it a few days ago, upgrade from 9.0a.
So far, so good.
No spectacular improvement, though.

Installed it too (via webupdate) and have no problems either.

What you describe sounds like a buffer desincronisation, that should be fixed stopping and restarting the player. This happens more frequently with small buffers ( under 200ms ) than with bigger ones, but there might be driver issues in your case.

Try increasing the buffer size to see if that improves anything. if not, then... you'll have to find out.

uhm, i have a SBLive player 5.1 and i installed the drivers of march 2003 i downloaded from Creative site 'cause i formatted two weeks ago....

moreover: now I'm listening to winamp and, posting on a newsgroup using Dialog, winamp goes slow

from that moment, restarting player doesn't solve anything...

i already checked on creative site but the knowledge base only explain how to plug correctly the soundboard in the slot

so...

"A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of formatting."

After few days, i noticed that the problem is linked to the CPU usage shown in "task manager": didn't look at it before, but whe i use, for example, winMX it cycles from 1% to 34% and so on and when foobar is running with winMX, it plays audio with clicks and slowdowns when the cpu usage reaches 34% of usage and goes normally when cpu usage is around 1%.

i don't know if it's a normal behaviour but i don't think so....

so, i can't understand that this cycling in the cpu usage is normal using winMX or is a specific problem issued (?) after -but i can't understand why!- the upgrade of directX....

uff...

it just fixed a security hole, why would there be any improvement in performance at all?

no problems at all after upgrading. there is one separate fix for the security hole, I know, but nearly ALL components got upgraded. performance and bug fixes...

The last time I updated DirectX was to 9.0. The funny thing is everything was fine until I installed a few of my games and then I realised that it wasn't exactly too friendly on my Win98 system, actually it caused many problems. Of course the hardware (soundcard, display card) on my system is ancient circa 1997-1998 which led to many non-compatible problems.

Even though there is a critical security update with 9.0b I will be keeping 8.1b installed - after all there's so many security holes in the Windows OS already that pop up every now and then that I really doubt it will ever be "patched" for good.