Stuttering sound in games

A lot of people have reported (on other forums) having stutering sound whilst games hang for 10-15 seconds. I han't had those problems untill I moved my games to a Sata drive from an ordinary IDE drive. I moved them back and the stuttering stopped!
Has anyone noticed this running games from a Sata drive?
Poor old Valve have come in for a lot of stick over HL2 doing this. I wonder how many with this problem are running it from a Sata Drive? Could be the problem is Nvidia's!
Better go to Valve's forum and ask.

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I don't think so, people with many different types of motherboard have reported the problem, apparently..
according to
http://www.blep.net/hl2stutter/
It occurs on both Intel and AMD CPUs of all speeds.
I studied that link and can't any reference to disk controllers, yet many are admament that the problem is poor sound caching which requires sounds to be loaded (from disk!). How the disk controller functions during intensive system use as typified by 3d games could be at the heart of the problem. Other games with large datebases also stutter, such as Microsoft Train sim.
I'm not saying you are not onto something .. ive had very similar problems with a supposedly top of the range dell laptop with a bad HD interface, everytime it accessed the disk, everyhing would stop momentarily, there is no reason that should be the case and just shows that it is not releasing its interrupt quickly enough.
The reason I pointed the link out is that you were hinting it was the nvidia sata implementation but i think thats only for AMD (atleast now) yet the link implies that intel systems are affected also.
The sooner the cause is discovered the better.. I get it , its not too bad though. installing the new nvidia separate sound drivers helped alot.

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I would file some sort of bug report - but I wouldn't know where to start, I don't work in an area that has anything to do with manufacturing HP products; and this is my free time now and I don't have intranet access .
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Alright. Sorry for bad english.
I got new Pavilion dv7 4121er with stuttering sound/glitching/laggy games from the box. Lurking this forum got and try many different solutions for resolving this issue. Nothing work.
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Hi all welcome as you can see I'm new to your forum. So I have a problem as it concerns the sound in games.
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