Chris, I was just looking at one of the other posts. If your problem is the video card you might try tuning the PCI latency. Check out my page - http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/Arcana.html. There are a couple of links that cover latency really well. Jan On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 15:51, Chris Metzler wrote: > > On 16 Feb 2004 14:54:13 -0600 > Jan Depner <eviltwin69@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Agreed. Your system should rock like crazy except for one leetle > > problem. IRQ 9 is higher priority than IRQ 10 so every time you get > > disk activity you're probably dropping audio. > > Yeah, that's what I would have *expected* -- so I was really surprised > when the latency tests didn't work out that way. Playing PCM audio > while writing, then copying, a 1.5 GB file (half again as large as my > RAM, so can't RAM-cache it), with my disk over 90% full, still produced > what I *think* (if I'm understanding all this correctly) are pretty > good numbers (100% within 1ms of the fragment latency). But I do plan > on tinkering with this, especially if the performance is troublesome > when I start doing real stuff. > > But while the disk results looked good, the graphics results weren't > very . . . > > -c > > -- > Chris Metzler cmetzler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > (remove "snip-me." to email) > > "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I > have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear
