Sounds like you are looking at wrong direction.  The problem more likely to
be your system couldn't keep up with what your games asked, so that heavy
CPU/graphics tasks badly lag, which has nothing (or very little) to do with
sound since processing sound will only take few % of CPU timing.  It will be
nice if you can include your hardware related info (eg. Video, RAM, driver
version) as well as software environment (game setting, OS, anything running
at background...).

you could try:
1) defrage HDD, to speed up file loading time
2) disable background programs, especially anti-V (any kind)
3) update hardware drivers to latest
4) if possible, upgrade few hardwares, the easiest and best way to improve
performance would be: having more RAM and more powerful video card.

I have same mobo and I play games as well, most games will run fine as long
as you don't push them too hard.

*My little PC: G3 Ti200 o/c to Ti500, Duron 1G, 768M of RAM.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "andre chiasson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 3:20 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Computer slow with games but not with Digital Audio


> Hi,
>
> I have a computer that is slow when playing games, but with digital audio,
> the performance is OK.  I changed the cd Rom player, reinstalled the
games,
> tried different games, connected the IDE drives on the ATA 100, installed
> the Promise ATA drivers. I tried connecting the CD Rom player on a ide
port
> by itself in master mode, but the problem still persist.
>
> The computer motherboard ia a Asus A7V.  The hard disk is a 15 Gb 7200 RPM
> drive.
>
> Here are the symtoms: when playing the game, the audio is heard before any
> actions.  Furthermore, the image freezes temporarily for a few seconds and
> them starts back. On and on...

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