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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 18 for Windows => Topic started by: InflatableMouse on July 09, 2013, 01:52:45 pm

Title: Stuttering with background processes
Post by: InflatableMouse on July 09, 2013, 01:52:45 pm

Since the reinstall of my HTPC I'm experiencing heavy stuttering when 2 particular background processes do their thing. One is par2 (repair process) and the other is unrar (unpack). These processes read/write to different disks than where music is stored and their priority is lowest.

I'm on Windows 8, using Xonar Uni drivers, ASIO. I've tried:
- set ASIO latency to 80ms (max)
- Buffering under ASIO Settings to maxed
- Use large hardware buffers
- Set prebuffering to 10 or 20 seconds
- Enabled memory playback
- A number of random combo's with the above options.

It looks like DirectSound plays fine but I still need to try Wasapi but if someone has some good suggestions to fix it with ASIO that would be great.


Thanks!

Title: Re: Stuttering with background processes
Post by: InflatableMouse on July 09, 2013, 01:57:22 pm

Both Wasapi and DirectSound play fine, even with default buffering settings so its exclusively with ASIO :(.