Bizzare Issue, out of options.

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Firstly, I’m new to the forum so I apologize if this thread finds itself in the wrong folder, in any case, here we go!

I am getting sound distortion/popping and skipping in games that were running perfectly well on the same machine with more demanding settings. Windows Media player plays CDs and both audio and video files distortion free, so does iTunes. I tried other speakers that I know are good and hoad the same problems. Sound quality through USB headphones is better.
I cleaned and defraged the HD, uninstalled or disabled unnecessary stuff, updated the BIOS, audio, video, and disk management drivers and firmware. The hardware passes all checks, there are no conflicts, and device manager says everything is working fine.

I don’t know what else I can do – any help or advice would be really appreciated.

EDIT: What’s strange is that if I play World of warcraft, for example, and get the sound distortion and then video lag, it stops if I move the camera angle to a birds eye view of my character. if I move it at all after this the distortion picks up again.

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NEW INFORMATION!

If i play FPS games, I skip around like crazy, but it has nothing to do with my internet connection. For whatever reason, I get intense video lag, but the graphics card appears to be fine.

Also, for those familiar with ventrillo, which is voice software for games, my ability to transmit cuts out during games, but it’s fine otherwise.

help!?

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Hi there (you might have fixed the problem by now :slight_smile:

I can’t really think of anything which might help, as the problem is quite odd considering sound has been working fine…

What have you tried to debug the problem? considering updating window, try update bios, sound drivers the last option would be to re-install xp which would point o hardware problem.