Hi all
I'm hoping someone has some suggestions on this issue, as it's driving me mad
When playing games, especially intense games, the sound will start to stutter/skip and the mouse will jump across the screen
At first I thought it was my XiFI soundblaster card, as these apparently have a few issues
I was advised it's due to PCI bus latency and sure enough, when using the PCI latency monitor, during the skipping/stuttering, the bar graph goes into the red. (See attachment)
Sometimes it gets bad enough that it crashes games that I'm playing
So I switched to the onboard sound, but even that has the same issues?
I'm running the latest bios for my motherboard and all the latest drivers for graphics, sound, motherboard etc, to no avail.
For some reason this problem went away for 6 months and I had 6 months of joyful gaming, then suddenly one day it started again.