On 21-Sep-99 Aaron Solochek wrote: > One of the things I like when I first installed on my system (PII 400, > everything scsi, 128mb ram) was that I could play mp3's and they would > never skip when I was doing stuff in the background. That was back when > I had a SB AWE64gold... since then I have moved that to a different > machine and installed a sblive. Now the sounds skips every now and > then... I know for sure that xearth makes is skip when it refreshes. > Does anyone know why this is? Is the system priortizing its self > differently? Is it because I went from an ISA to a PCI sound card? > This is really starting to annoy me, especially because this was one of > my big complaints about windows.
I have a sblive PCI, and haven't noticed this too much. What kind of hardware do you have? Are you using swap? Is something else running at 100% CPU? Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim