Intel hda, sound stutters in games.

I have yet another problem. Whenever I play games, the sound stutters very badly. I'm using alsa and pretty much everything else works. No problems in mplayer/vlc. Just in games.
My guess is that heavy load causes the problem. I have no clue how to fix it though. Been searching around on forums for a while, but haven't found any solution.
Maybe worth mentioning that the games run just fine. No choppiness at all or other problems.
Last edited by Aziere (2007-03-30 12:12:22)

weird. xmms sometimes stutter(actually stops) for me but that's about it. but i'm not using kernel26 i'm using the -ck kernel which is supposed to be better with these things.
i have an ac97 onboard audio. what sound(-solution) do you have?
it *could* be that your running esd and arts in the background though which _might_ make the sound stutter.
disable esd in a startup manager/script/dir like 'esdctl off' and remove arts.
OT: Is gnome 2.18 compiled now without esd or is it possible to compile gnome without it now?

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