Powerful Gaming Rig Cant play 24bit audio while gaming?!

[Swbf2cheater]

I have a 24bit expensive Dac that I use with Foobar2000 set to 24bit audio at 50ms buffer length. When I game on a very old game, star wars battlefront 2, I drop to single digit FPS.

I'm running an I7 960, 12gb ram, x58 mb and dual 6950 2gb GPUs at 1360x768 res in game. I have updated the sound drivers. This occurs even on 16bit audio option in Foobar, I am really upset by this and had hoped my powerhouse rig would allow me to game while listening to HQ music. Am I doing something wrong? How the hell cant an i7 rig be too weak to handle 24bit audio and light gaming?

what the fudge?

 

[chesteracorgi]

It probably isn't the processor, but a conflict in the audio. The games may be taking up the same channel as the HQ music.