Ok, I just bought a new computer and started to play a little CS. I like to listen to music while playing too, and thought that it would work good with foobar because foobar is low on CPU%

But what happends, yes of course. Foobar lags. The song can stand still for at a maximum 5 secs. And that is really annoying when you have this very good song, and the fucking song hacks.

Is this a big problem. Do everyone have this problem? I can tell you one thing. It is not my computer. Or it shouldn't be my computer faults.

Under preferences/core perhaps raise the process priority class of foobar? That may also cause the game to lag instead, but give it a try, should be at normal, or perhaps above. I've played several games with foobar playing without any troubles using a 2.4ghz p4.

Maybe try switching output modes? could be your driver dislikes mixing whatever mode you use with whatever your game uses in a timely mannor.

In Preferences > Playback, make sure Playback thread priority is set to max. Other than that, maybe slow hard drive access? Who knows, if it's highly fragmented..

I used to play Quake 3 all the time with foobar2000 playing in the background without any problems on 1.2 GHz Athlon.

What is the computer? As in, what is in it?

I don't have any trouble playing America's Army while playing music at normal processor priority, as long as the output isn't Kernel Streaming.

Your computers doesn't happen to have an nForce2 mother borad by any chance? There have been problems with nForce2 mobos with sound lagging and I haven't found a really good solution for it (but thinking of buying a new mobo). Maybe someone with more knowledge might try to assist you if this was the case

Why yes! Mine IS nForce2-- Asus a7n8x-dlx to be specific. I remember when I first built my pc, I had trouble with skipping in winamp when I used my mouse wheel for anything. And I finally fixed it somehow...I don't remember how though! I remember reading alot though. If you want to compare notes, give me a PM, and I can tell you what I do to setup windows now.