Sound Stutter

Creepie

<div class="IPBDescription">Just in the last two days</div> Just started experiencing sound/game stutter. Towards the end of the round when things get busy, the sound will start to stutter and the game will freeze for a fraction of a second. I haven't changed anything on my machine that would affect this. No Windows updates, no driver changes, nothing new installed. Just seemed to have started to do this.

I've turned EAX off and lowered the sound quality, but it's still there, albeit less so.

Is there anything in 13.0.4 that might have changed that will affect this (Devs ?) ?

Any other ideas about how to diagnose this issue ?

edit: machine specs for what they're worth:

AMD 2500
512M
Win2k sp4
ATI 9800 Pro 128M
Creative SB Live.

Lt_Patch

<!--c1--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>CODE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'><!--ec1-->net_graph 3<!--c2--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--ec2-->Type that in your console to see if you get a latency spike, or Loss/Choke spikes, as they can cause most problems that magically appear.

Also, try another server to see if it is the server causing the problem.

Make sure you've done the normall nasties check as well, they might be transmitting any data, which would be a coincidence that it is during the last few minutes of your game