Installed a new sound card, now i am getting Sound & fps stuttering/lag etc!

[JimmyJohnson]

Hello everyone, firstly i will tell you my system specifications, then i will tell you my issue in hand!

Windows 7 home premium 64 bit
Intel core i5 2500k @ 3.3ghz
Corsair CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 8GB 1600MHz CL9 DDR3 Vengeance Memory
OCZ ZX Series 850W 80+ GOLD PSU Fully Modular PSU
ASUS 1155 P8Z68-V PRO motherboard
Seagate 1TB 3.5" Barracuda SATA-III 6Gb/s Hard Drive - 7200RPM 32MB Cache
LG GH24NS70 24x DVD±RW DL & RAM SATA Optical Drive
Msi Nvidia gtx 570 twin frozr II edition graphics card

Recently installed (what i installed last, which must be part of the problem?)
Asus Xonar D2 sound card
Sennheiser pc 360 headset
Roccat Kone Xtd gaming mouse
Corsair k70 keyboard

Ok, so ive had this computer Since January 2012, only last week did i purchase the upgrades for the computer (listed in the recently installed section) and installed the sound card, headset, etc. I'm pretty sure that i installed the newest drivers i could find for each device/peripheral on their respective websites.

THE ISSUE : After about 30 minutes of playing any game, whilst on Mumble or Teamspeak, my computer starts lagging (Sound Lag), almost like the sound processor gets stuck on a sound and repeats it really fast 3/4 times, like it is hanging the sound? Then everything loads up normally again, this will happen every 5-10 seconds, becoming more and more frequent. Also after another 5 minutes, the computers graphics then starts lagging, and i experience freezes in games, co-insiding with the sound lags/stuttering.

I need any help you guys can give, i will try anything! I've tried installing/uninstalling some drivers etc, tried disabling the 6 Nvidia Audio device/driver things that appear below my Asus Xonar sound device in device manager, ive tried disabling the onboard sound, but nothing seems to work.

NOTE: If im not playing games, and just streaming stuff, WITHOUT my headset plugged in, none of this happens, its just business as usual!

Is it my sound card? The headset (somehow?) Drivers?
Anything and everything is appreciated, and thanks, i will sit here and check back often!


ALSO it seems wierd, but this lag can completely stop sometimes if i keep my mouse still, and as soon as i move the mouse it spikes and starts, if i stop moving the mouse it stops again :S


Yours hopefully ,
Jimmy.

Anyone?

 

[negativkarma]

Couple of different ideas for you to look into here:

1) possibly a faulty sound card. remove the Xonar and try playing some games with your new mouse and keyboard, headset, etc. This isn't my suspected solution, but an easy first step.

2) Asus makes a couple versions of that sound card, since you specified the d2 i'm assuming yours is the PCI version and not pci-e. If this is the case, check for chipset driver updates.

3) If your sound card does happen to be PCI-E, which slot did you connect it to? If you plugged the sound card into the white 16x slot, remove it and place it into the short dark blue x1 slot above your video card. Check if problems go away.

 

[JimmyJohnson]

Thanks for the response, i haven't thought of doing the chipset drivers, but im pretty sure ive updated bios in the process of trying to get this to stop doing it.

Also, im not sure if it helps but i found out this:

When the sound thing is happening, or before it happens i started using a DPC latency monitoring program (i googled and i was suggested to do so) And i discovered that the standard DPC is around 250 when im not moving my mouse, but if i move my mouse really fast across the screen it jumps up to 5-50 THOUSAND DPC!!

It was only happening when i moved my mouse, its so strange, ive got a Roccat Kone XTD (with correct drivers) (its new, along with the headset + Sound card!

Anything is appreciated!

Its in a PCI slot btw