Infuriating stuttering audio!

[ava92 0]

Hi guys, i am on 1.1638.

Not sure of my cpu, it's some kind of AMD 4-core 4.1ghz.

Graphic card is a radeon 5750HD i believe.  overclocked with the built in software.

 

I am having a problem with stuttering audio in simcity 4. 

 

-When i alt tab into or out of the game, for about a second, the audio is fine

-I am running at 1-core affinity, the game ran better on multi-core affinity but it crashed to desktop often.

-Maybe 10% of the times i boot the program, the stuttering audio never occurs.

-The stuttering audio might randomly stop while i am playing and after that the game runs fine.  Could be 5 minutes, could be 30 mins.

 

Basically i have been playing on mute with music cause of this stupid stuttering audio.  Anyone had this problem?

 

This is my launch shortcut

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Simcity 4\SimCity 4.exe" -intro:off  -CPUCount:1 -CustomResolution:enabled -r1366x768x32

 

 

[Indiana Joe 1,750]

Weird.  Are your audio drivers updated?

[lhrob 213]

Does it only happen when you're playing SC4, or does it also happen while playing other games or watching videos?

[ava92 0]

Hey the problem was caused by setting the cpu priority to High.  Usually i do this for all my games and it improves performance.  Solved!!

[Thunderman 30]

Hey the problem was caused by setting the cpu priority to High.  Usually i do this for all my games and it improves performance.  Solved!!

 

I suggest to not set your cpu priority to high on games and such, because it can destabilize your computer performance, giving perfomance issues like stated above...

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

The only time you need to set high priority for any program is if it is involved in a transaction processing situation where fast response is an utter priority.  Doing this messes up the dispatch algorithm in your O/S kernel, and there is generally no reason to do this ever.  Strangely enough, the only program on my machine this is set to very high priority is the pulse audio daemon.  Everything else is set to normal.

 

I am on Linux, and this is an automatic setting. 

 

If you are on Windows, I wouldn't interfere with the dispatcher unless you have a very well understood reason to do so.