sound stutter, ever a fix?

[AstroCat]

Ok, started playing the game. I seem to have the infamous sound stutter.

Looked all over but can't seem to find a straight forward answer.

As I play there will be at times a small 500msec or so pause and sometimes a sound will stutter. It happens ever so often.

Is there a fix for this or is it just the game?

 

[diluted]

How much RAM do you have and what detail do you have the textures on (high/medium/low)? I used to get the sound stuttering pretty bad, I found that I couldn't run it on high texture detail with 512mb of ram. WheN i bought another 512mb it ran fine

 

[Hazar]

http://support.steampowered.com/cgi...3B2PSZwX2N2PSZwX3BhZ2U9MQ**&p_li=&p_topview=1

 

[AstroCat]

This is my system:

AMD 64 4000+
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium nForce4 SLI Motherboard
CORSAIR XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB)
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS
BFGtech Geforce 7800GTX OC PCI 256

Currently using the 81.84 drivers with these settings:

High Quality (all optimizations off)
Trilinear Filtering on
Triple Buffering on
Gamma AA on
TA: MSAA
Clamp on

All in game settings at max with Vsync on at 1280x960 res.

I don't think I should be getting the sound stutter because of my system. I've tried playing with different configs but they didn't make a difference.

 

[Beerdude26]

Creative sound cards sometimes have a tendency to screw up HL2 (Audigy's in particular). Try taking it out and playing with onboard (or no) sound.

 

[AstroCat]

No, I don't think that is a good solution. The problem is much larger than the paticular sound card I have.

As a matter of fact I don't think you can get rid of all the stuttering in the game, as there are actually several different kinds of stutters.

From what I've read I've found a few tweaks that alleviate a lot of the kind of stutter I am having. And, from what I've researched the kind I'm having is the lessor of the stutters.

What a mess, but luckily it's ok enough now to play the game and have fun, I hope!

Thanks for the help.

And, if there is any other advice on tweaks I'm open to learn more.