InSainn Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 Ok, ever since I installed Vista on my computer back at the beginning of the year I've been having very bad studdering issues with the game. However, I quickly found out that if I end the process "audiodg.exe" in the task manager, the game runs extremely smooth BUT I have no sound whatsoever on my computer then until I restart. I just wondered if anyone had any idea why this is and is there a way to fix it? I'd love to be able to play with sound but I could continue to live without it if noone can help. And no, I'm not using a No-CD crack... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkB Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 AudioDG.exe is part of Vista's audio suite and any audio processing your system does is done via this process. Ending it essentially kills any sound operations from your system, and the sound comes back after you restart because the program is loaded at boot time. Having a quick look around, there have been a few reports of performance issues with it, so once I'm caught up, I'll see if I can do some more digging and find out if it's sortable. Just a couple of checks - are your sound drivers installed correctly? What are your system specifications? When the process is running, what kind of CPU and memory usage is it using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InSainn Posted August 3, 2008 Author Share Posted August 3, 2008 It's using 8 MB of RAM and to my knowledge the sound drivers are installed correctly. It's just a basic on board soundcard and I've never done anything with it other than updating drivers when prompted... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkB Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 What type of sound card to you have? You can find out by checking the sound, video and game controllers section of Device Manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkB Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 It seems the problem is caused by a particular API call in the AudioDG.exe program that attempts to obtain wave input from a recording device, so here's something to try. Disable the Windows Audio services. Go to Start, then in the "Start Search" box, type services.msc. Find the one named Windows Audio, right-click on it, then choose Properties. Click on the Stop button, then choose Disabled from the Startup type drop-down list. Click Apply, then OK. Leave the Services window open, you'll need it again in a moment. Next, disable recording devices on the system. Go to the Control Panel, open the Sound applet, click the recording tab, then disable any recording devices you have. Once this is done, re-enable the Windows Audio service by doing the same as before, but change the startup type to Automatic and start the service, then click Apply and OK. Try playing sound to make sure it works OK, then try MVP. If it doesn't work, repeat the process by re-enabling the recording devices in step 2, restart the system, then do the steps again, but restart the system after performing step 3 before you attempt to play any audio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InSainn Posted August 3, 2008 Author Share Posted August 3, 2008 You nailed it! Did what you said and now everything's running as it should be... turns out I had like 20 different recording devices enabled. I have no clue how they all came about but they're disabled now and MVP along with the CPU in general are running much more smoothly now. So a big thank you and I owe ya one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkB Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 Excellent! No problem, I'm just glad it worked! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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