Hoster Skipping/studdering

[JonPyle]

Well Roy, I went to Realtek's website and downloaded their new 64 bit driver (6.0.1.6526). I tested it over 50 times with common words such as and, in, on, it and so on, and artist names also. It was fast and not a single audio glitch...So make a note of the driver I had, just in case some one else has or gets this problem. My Desktop had a different version of Realtek and didn't have the problem so it must be that version... I hope this doesn't raise its ugly head agian...Thanks for you time Roy...

[admin]

JonPyle, if you look up (in the manual ) the Search dialog topic, you will find a discussion on what is now INDEXED (BookID, Artist, Title). Searching on these fields is now super-fast. Using any other fields, including disabling any of the "Karaoke-Audio-Video" buttons triggers a STRING SEARCH, not an INDEXED search. Using SS will cause the CPU to be tied up more.

However... we have set the "audio thread" to a higher priority than Hoster's core code. Thus, if the audio is about to be starved, other features in Hoster are slowed down while the audio buffers are refilled before audio-dropout would happen.

I'm very glad you found the audio driver is the culprit in your case. I've notified MTUSUPPORT to note this and do a FAQ if his findings are the same.

I'm sorry you had problems. I wish there was some way we could make Hoster "independent" of all the problems users can encounter on a Windows computer. Regretfully, Microsoft is totally ignoring protecting audio playing stream. They used to do better...



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