Audio Stuttering

I am getting chronic sound looping and stuttering. Some sounds lag behind the attack animation by a second then loop several times over top of the current sound, which tends to stutter. I bugged this on test weeks ago and I was more resigned than surprised that it's made it to live.

Lag seems to be a factor but not the sole cause. The stuttering is worse in laggy zones or large teams and less frequent when solo but is never entirely absent.

My video card is an nVidia 9600GT. The video driver is up-to-date but my audio driver probably isn't. Win XP Pro. AMD processor.

I currently have Ultra disabled (I selected "Cancel" at initial log-in) and am in the process of tweaking to find the best combination of settings.

I've asked around and I seem to be the only person having this issue. Any ideas?

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Sound stuttering can be a symptom of lag or other performance issues. Run msconfig, disable all of the non microsoft services and startup programs then reboot. If it works well then just start reenabling stuff until you find your happy place.

Also run a malware scan, update the drivers, etc.

For addititional help you may want to post a hijackthis and cohhelper.

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