jyankk Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 This happens to me as well and only resolves itself after a restart, its rather annoying. I'm using an asus sound card thats fully updated. Going to try to change the disk cache options posted above, will update if it worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarsonic Posted April 11, 2010 Report Share Posted April 11, 2010 I'm having the same issue with my new dell laptop running Windows 7 64 bit with an integrated sound card. Any updates from the people who tried some stuff to see if it fixed the issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kode54 Posted April 13, 2010 Report Share Posted April 13, 2010 The DPC Latency Checker indicates that some device in the system is causing >1ms latency after a few hours of running uTorrent. Disabling the network interface or closing and restarting uTorrent seems to make the problem go away. Updating to the latest drivers for my network interface does not seem to have any effect.Conversely, using a different BitTorrent client with a most of my active torrents imported and seeding does not seem to incur the same load on my system. So whether or not it is specifically a driver issue, only uTorrent's level of network traffic seems to trigger it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted April 13, 2010 Report Share Posted April 13, 2010 It is purely a driver problem, since I can hammer the crap out of my network with no ill effects on my audio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarsonic Posted April 13, 2010 Report Share Posted April 13, 2010 Firon, are you on Windows 7 64-bit? Just trying to figure out if that has something to do with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kode54 Posted April 15, 2010 Report Share Posted April 15, 2010 If you would give me some application other than uTorrent that can also hammer the crap out of my network, I can try to eliminate that as the cause of the problem. I found one network stress testing application, but it was entirely console based, and did not appear to be automated in any fashion. Something where I can just point it at my router or an unoccupied IP address in my local network and click the start button, although I suppose I can just learn to use that console application I mentioned.Then again, it may actually be the network drivers, but it seems that uTorrent is the only program I've found so far that stresses my network enough for it to be a problem.Coincidentally, someone else with the same exact motherboard, a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R, has had the same exact problem with DPC latency, possibly attributed to network stress. I never did get around to replying to the topic that user posted in, and it kind of died months ago, so I'd be resurrecting it just to ask the poster about his downloading or uploading habits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted April 15, 2010 Report Share Posted April 15, 2010 Maybe you can explain the issue to Gigabyte support (they have boards I guess), they will surely appreciate the feedback and fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted April 17, 2010 Report Share Posted April 17, 2010 Here's some more message threads for (vaguely?) similar problems:http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=62796uTorrent causes stutteringhttp://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=65384uTorrent still causes stutteringhttp://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=64995UTorrent becomes laggyhttp://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=73262Whole system starts glitching while downloading with uTorrentThe sound corruption I get as well, particularly the first 5 seconds after I turn off the upload speed limiter to take advantage of ComCast's SpeedBoost (short-term burst speeds).I do not have a Gigabyte motherboard, I am using an Intel motherboard -- ancient 82801DB AGP motherboard with P4 2.53 Ghz cpu and 512 MB DDR SDRAM. ...And Win 98SE. My hard drive controller is an add-on PCI Promise IDE controller card, which seems to take some load off the cpu with its DMA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesmo Posted April 24, 2010 Report Share Posted April 24, 2010 I had the same problem myself.I start my utorrent and some big torrent > (5gb) and if i start video player or a game, i had my hole system freeze for about 10-15 secs periodically.I've tried to turn off my firewall entirely, but without success. Those freezes continued.So i've decided to stop being a lazy guy and looked around in the options of uTorrent.For some strange and unknown to me reason, the disk write cache was disabled in the options by default.I've unchecked it along with another option for the memory and i don't have this freezing effect anymore.You can try this:Go to Options->Preferences->Advanced->Disk Cache and UNcheck the following:1. Reduce memory usage when the cache is not needed2. Disable windows caching of disk writesLet's hope this will help you too.This totally fixed it for me. Thanks for the info! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfreek Posted June 14, 2010 Report Share Posted June 14, 2010 hello everyone.i am experiencing the same problem with utorrent 2.0.2BUT NOT with 1.8.1.after running utorrent several hours (i.e. over night) the sound begins to crackle.solution is to close utorrent and restart the system.i tried EVERY version of drivers available for my sound chip (ad1988b).i am a software developer and to me it seems like sth changed from 2.0.2 that causes some crazy api calls to overload?never developed for microsoft platforms but there must be something wrong... because it once worked in 1.8.1 and before.maybe it's microsoft failing to decouple sound api code from the rest of the system... as we know, since vista (at least) they've gone crazy -.-forgot: this doesn't seem to be a hardware manufacturer issue since there are asus and gigabyte products involved.my system:m2n32 sli deluxe4gb corsair xms28800gtmany hard driveswindows 7 x64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarsonic Posted June 14, 2010 Report Share Posted June 14, 2010 Are you running Microsoft Security Essentials? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfreek Posted June 14, 2010 Report Share Posted June 14, 2010 yep - that's the problem?if yes, why does it work with security essentials and version 1.8?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarsonic Posted June 14, 2010 Report Share Posted June 14, 2010 bfreek: I can't speak to why it doesn't happen with 1.8, but check out this thread here:http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/msestart/thread/0519ba5e-f3d8-4caa-a193-01fea178aa4fI had the same issue as you, but switching to Avast! from MSE in the meantime has completely cleared up my problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfreek Posted June 14, 2010 Report Share Posted June 14, 2010 jarsonic: thanks, will try it - terrible read though. i'm working with windows and mac. on a mac i never have such problems. things just work. (love unix based systems <3) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted June 14, 2010 Report Share Posted June 14, 2010 Don't use shitty security software and things just work on Windows too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfreek Posted June 14, 2010 Report Share Posted June 14, 2010 firon: windows is like swiss cheese when it comes to security. u first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RKRigney Posted July 5, 2010 Report Share Posted July 5, 2010 I just started having a similar issue. Shutting down uTorrent fixes it. I'm trying out the whole "run it in XP SP3 compatibility mode" thing, and will report back if that solves it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfreek Posted July 5, 2010 Report Share Posted July 5, 2010 removing ms security essential solved the problem for now. very poor thing, microsoft... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 5, 2010 Report Share Posted July 5, 2010 More about Microsoft Security Essentials:http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=59644 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmaltoe Posted September 21, 2011 Report Share Posted September 21, 2011 Hi guys!I´m using a Asus P5K - E WIFI/AP, CORE 2 QUAD 2,4, 4 GB RAM, WINDOWS 7 X64 Enterprise, I ´ve done a fresh install of my OS yesterday, all going right and smooth. When I started to use utorrent I had the same issue than you all. I´ve tried everything and the ONLY one that worked for me was disabling both Windows and AVAST firewalls. No more soundbreaking till now. I´ll be testing overtime and keep you informed. Thanks. PS: Sorry for my bad english.. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmaltoe Posted September 22, 2011 Report Share Posted September 22, 2011 Well... no more sound issues till now... I´ve enabled windows firewall just for testing and it all seems to be fine. Hope this helps. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sapient Posted September 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2011 Interesting to hear avast still has the same problem despite their claims for a fix in the latest version.For anyone interested, COMODO seems to have solved the problem with their firewall since version 5.5. I have been using it for months now without problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaredallen86 Posted May 29, 2012 Report Share Posted May 29, 2012 I believe ms security essentials includes an antispyware component that might be interfering just like some firewalls. Since mse is not available where I live I can't give you specific instructions, but try to disable the antispyware component if possible (I have the similar windows defender off). My problem was clearly produced by the firewall, and I was finally able to diagnose it as follows:After the problem has started and is severe, run process explorer and double click on the system process. arrange the threads displayed in the new window by cpu usage and identify any threads using any cpu (even a little, like 1-2%) when the computer is idling. Anything other than readyboost (if you have it on) that uses cpu when the pc is idle is the culprit. You can verify this if, after restarting, before the problem begins, the particular thread is not using cpu when the pc is idle, but starts using cpu, even at low levels, after the problem begins. Find which program the thread belongs to and uninstall it.This . I have an MSI laptop running W7 64-bit that I bought only a couple months ago. I use foobar2000 for my music. I only noticed the problem with the audio yesterday. The tempo of the track would lag and fluctuate, and it would also produce a crackling noise that went away as soon as uT was turned off. So I went to the process explorer and found a process that was up near the top of the list by CPU usage, along with foobar. It was called a software manager agent, or something. I'm pretty sure it was some of the additonal crap that came on the computer. I disabled the process and the audio problems immediately ceased. I didn't uninstall the program, but if the problem reappears I probably will. Hope this helps somebody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldngrey Posted April 9, 2013 Report Share Posted April 9, 2013 My audio "Stuttering Problem" did not seem to be related to Antivirus, Firewalls, or Drivers that I could tell. What worked for me was reducing the maximum number of connected peers per torrent in [settings Bandwidth]. Try a very low number and see if the problem goes away, if it does sneak back up till it reoccurs then back down a little. As I only have a 30K WiFi connection I was able to find a number that maxed out my speed and still eliminated the stuttering audio. Not sure if this will work for those with higher speed connections but worth a try.Hope this helps someone.OLDNGREY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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