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Sound stutter and also low FPS
DarioB:
Ok so in the last few days I have been having the following problem, and it would only happen for these things:
My game Guild Wars 2 suddenly became completely unplayable, it would actually show FPS to be around 12-13, but in reality it's more like 2-3. Also, if I turn the sounds on, it is just weird, constant electronic stutter loud thing, hard to describe.
Also the sound would stutter on Windows startup (Windows 7 32-bit)
Also it would stutter every few (maybe 10) seconds when playing a YouTube video.
My other game (Dota 2) works just fine. However, just before this problem occured, my PC crashed, I got a blue screen with some letters, some bar quickly filled to 100% and my PC restarted. This happened when I closed the Dota2 game (while song on YouTube was playing). But! I had similar problems with Guild Wars 2 only without stuttering sound 2 months ago, and installing different graphics card driver version solved it (until the next restart, then I would have to choose another version, so I could even keep switching 2 versions).
But, I seriously tried everything now. Every combination of sound and graphics drivers, I even decided to download windows updates. I ran your system restore, it didn't help. Antivirus, everything really. The only thing I haven't tried is Windows reinstalling which I can't do because I don't have a Windows CD. I also never set up a system restore point so sadly I can't do that. I am really desperate and have no idea what to do, I think I spent 20 hours just trying different things, researching different forums to see people who had same problems, but none of their fixes worked for me. Please help me.
Shane:
Could be a number of things.
Bad hardware, bad drivers, bad windows, very slow hard drive or heavy heavy page file usage.
I play guild wars 2 myself. But the problem isnt the game since you have problems outside of it.
So first lets find out what caused that blue screen. Use this program and it will tell you what might have caused the last blue screen and lets go from there :wink:
http://www.resplendence.com/whocrashed
Shane
DarioB:
Crash dump directory: C:\Windows\Minidump
Crash dumps are enabled on your computer.
On Thu 1/16/2014 3:30:34 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\memory.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: hal.sys (hal!KfLowerIrql+0x61)
Bugcheck code: 0x8E (0xFFFFFFFFC0000005, 0xFFFFFFFF8329C065, 0xFFFFFFFFA3A68BD4, 0x0)
Error: KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
Bug check description: This bug check indicates that a kernel-mode application generated an exception that the error handler did not catch.
A third party driver was identified as the probable root cause of this system error. It is suggested you look for an update for the following driver: hal.sys .
Google query: hal.sys KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
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Conclusion
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One crash dump has been found and analyzed. A third party driver has been identified to be causing system crashes on your computer. It is strongly suggested that you check for updates for these drivers on their company websites. Click on the links below to search with Google for updates for these drivers:
hal.sys
Is this the file I should download and install? Or is it some other? http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?hal
Shane:
hal.sys and that error code means a drive caused the crash.
So a drive will only cause a crash if it is installed wrong or corrupted OR the hardware that the driver is for will cause it as well.
I had a laptop that made the same kind of odd sound noises, then one day the sound just stopped. When I first turn it on I get a horridly loud screech from the speakers and then nothing. Bad sound card.
So the easiest test, if you have the part that is, is to try another sound card.
If your computer is a tower and it is on board sound you can disabled it in the bios and then throw in a pci sound card. Sound problems go away? You have a bad sound card. Problem stays? Then you have either something wrong in Windows or bad sectors on the hard drive.
You can get a pci sound card on new egg for $7, but those are very low end crap ones.
A low end but still good as the board sound would be something like this
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829102003
Then of course cards get better and go all the way past $200. But those sounds cards sound amazing if you have the right speakers.
For me? I use the on board sound on my system with great speakers and my games sound awesome lol
Shane
DarioB:
My computer indeed is tower. However, I don't have an extra sound card, and it would probably take a while for this to ship. If I disable this sound in bios without having a new sound card would that at least confirm the problem? If the problems go away when the sound card is disabled then that was it, and if the problem stay it's something else? Or not?
However, I'm still wondering why Dota2 for example has no problems with sound or performance at all.
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