"stuttering audio" when turning

Hello,

Have not seen this posted before, but I have been having this problem ever since the emergency hacker patch and it's getting worse all the time. I waited until this last more stable update to post, hoping that would fix it, but no. Possibly it's just a settings problem?

What happens is that when the avatar turns left or right, especially using the arrow keys, my music stream "catches" and a section or sample of what was in the stream when you hit the keys repeats while you are turning. Worse, it sticks that way so it just stutters away for a second or two, before righting itself and returning to the active stream. On a really bad day I can be frozen in mid-turn with the stuttering audio for as much as 10 or 15 seconds, which seems like an eternity when you are in the middle of something.

Is this a known problem with audio streams or has anyone experienced this themselves?

It's probably not related but there must be something different aobut my setup because I rarely if ever have any of the TP problems that everyone is talking about, but I *do* get this strange thing.

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I've noticed as of the emergency patch, and a bit more so with 1.6.9, that object update delays have increased significantly. So much so at times that what you're seeing happens, the CPU is so busy with them that nothing else gets worked on, like decoding the MP3 stream.

I seem to recall this being an old bug. May be that something was rebroken?

(Please pardon the size of this screencap)

Thanks Jillian,

At least it's nice to know *why* it happens and that I am neither crazy nor likely the only one experiencing it.

Dianne, what CPU do you have? How much RAM?

Jillian, what version of SL is that screenshot from? My Ctrl-Shift-2 graph doesn't look anything like that. The layout's completely different. (That is the Ctrl-Shift-2 display, right?)

It's the Ctrl-Shift-9 display, from 1.6.9

G4 12" Powerbook laptop, 1.33 Ghz, 768 RAM, fairly new, this year certainly, but I dont have the exact date of purchase.

I am on a different computer right now or I would check. Let me know if you need any detailed hardware info. I will test it on the second machine after I update the client.

Edit: I did not stay on long because the old machine is painful to use but it stutters on that one too. (G4 iMac flat panel 800Mhz!, 768 RAM) also when I quit the client the audio stream remained active and playing for quite a while afterwards but I did not reboot after installing 1.6.9 so maybe that was unrelated. Also the powerbook is on wireless and the flat panel iMac is wired of course.

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Further to this, (I guess it's obvious but I did not see it til now), this is most likely the same "turning bug" as other folks are reporting. It got so bad I turned off the audio completely and it still stutters, it just stutters silently. Subjectively it seems to vary with the Sim in that it is absolutely horrible when I am in my house but sometimes not so bad when I go somewhere else. It is intermittent though so that might just be co-incidence.

Again just for further info, it does not seem related to the resing of objects in that it does not matter whether there are hundreds of objects to res in the immediate environment or none at all. It also does not "build up" or anything, it occurs from the first seconds online and remains at basicaly the same level until I log off although it is intermittent as I said.

Please find something out about this, It is getting worse and worse especially in my own home and home sim. I had to log off because the game was essentially unuseable. If this continues I could be effectively locked out until the next update or fix and I have commitments to meet before then and an election in Neualtenburg coming up.

Thanks for all your help (both for this and in the past),

Dianne :|