- Mar 4, 2012
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I've had this model Vaio since September, and until mid-January pretty much everything ran absolutely perfectly. Then I started noticing an irritating sound lag in Skyrim. Since then, the issue has popped up in various other programs, but manifesting itself in slightly different ways.
In Skyrim, it comes in two forms that i've noticed so far.
- When swinging/firing a weapon, the game carries on as normal, but the sound effect is delayed, sometimes by so little as to be unnoticeable, but mostly somewhere between 1 - 3 seconds behind the animation.
- Secondly, and far more difficult to deal with, is NPC dialogue. When an NPC is about to talk, either in standard conversations, passing in the street, or grunting/shouting in battle, the game pauses for 1 - 3 seconds before resuming with the sound playing normally. This delay, especially in bigger battles of 3 people or more, has rendered the game absolutely unplayable. Note - the sound does not normally loop. It just causes the whole game to hang whilst it seemingly "loads".
In La Noire, the sound lags behind as in Skyrim, but the game continues to operate at the same speed. Sentences sometimes do not finish, or overlap in a way that is not intentional. Other sound effects are fine, only speech is affected. There is also a lag issue with the facial animations that appeared at the same time. They play out of sync, and sometimes glitch out slightly, replacing a talking face with a non-talking one. I have not noticed any other texture issues in this or any other game.
In VLC, I every so often the video and audio will pause briefly before resuming, with a visual glitch immediately afterwards where the frame goes all sorts of funny colours. Sorry I can't give more details than that.
Although this issue now seems to affect the majority of games on the laptop, these three examples cover the basics of the problems i've had. I've attempted any number of fixes, updating my video drivers and changing settings. Previously I ran on high settings without issues, but now this sound lag presents itself on any settings level - i've tried each in turn. I have also attempted:
- Restarting
- Registry cleaning
- Malware/Spyware/Virus scans
- Uninstalling programs/changing startup programs
- Reinstalling/updating sound drivers
Also some others, i've been having the problem for a month now and i've lost track of the number of things i've tried. My only thought is that it must be some kind of hardware issue, although Windows Experience Index claims all my statistics, including Hard Disk transfer rate, are unchanged from before the problem occurred. My laptop is under warranty, so i've got no problem if it's a hardware issue, but some kind of idea would be fantastic before I go crazy.
Specs:
Core i7-2630QM @ ~2.00GHz
Nvidia Geforce 540m
8gb of RAM
Windows 7 64-bit
For any other details please ask, i'm not utterly incompetent with computers so I should probably be able to provide something. Either way, any help you can give me would be appreciated so much. Thanks.
In Skyrim, it comes in two forms that i've noticed so far.
- When swinging/firing a weapon, the game carries on as normal, but the sound effect is delayed, sometimes by so little as to be unnoticeable, but mostly somewhere between 1 - 3 seconds behind the animation.
- Secondly, and far more difficult to deal with, is NPC dialogue. When an NPC is about to talk, either in standard conversations, passing in the street, or grunting/shouting in battle, the game pauses for 1 - 3 seconds before resuming with the sound playing normally. This delay, especially in bigger battles of 3 people or more, has rendered the game absolutely unplayable. Note - the sound does not normally loop. It just causes the whole game to hang whilst it seemingly "loads".
In La Noire, the sound lags behind as in Skyrim, but the game continues to operate at the same speed. Sentences sometimes do not finish, or overlap in a way that is not intentional. Other sound effects are fine, only speech is affected. There is also a lag issue with the facial animations that appeared at the same time. They play out of sync, and sometimes glitch out slightly, replacing a talking face with a non-talking one. I have not noticed any other texture issues in this or any other game.
In VLC, I every so often the video and audio will pause briefly before resuming, with a visual glitch immediately afterwards where the frame goes all sorts of funny colours. Sorry I can't give more details than that.
Although this issue now seems to affect the majority of games on the laptop, these three examples cover the basics of the problems i've had. I've attempted any number of fixes, updating my video drivers and changing settings. Previously I ran on high settings without issues, but now this sound lag presents itself on any settings level - i've tried each in turn. I have also attempted:
- Restarting
- Registry cleaning
- Malware/Spyware/Virus scans
- Uninstalling programs/changing startup programs
- Reinstalling/updating sound drivers
Also some others, i've been having the problem for a month now and i've lost track of the number of things i've tried. My only thought is that it must be some kind of hardware issue, although Windows Experience Index claims all my statistics, including Hard Disk transfer rate, are unchanged from before the problem occurred. My laptop is under warranty, so i've got no problem if it's a hardware issue, but some kind of idea would be fantastic before I go crazy.
Specs:
Core i7-2630QM @ ~2.00GHz
Nvidia Geforce 540m
8gb of RAM
Windows 7 64-bit
For any other details please ask, i'm not utterly incompetent with computers so I should probably be able to provide something. Either way, any help you can give me would be appreciated so much. Thanks.
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