Thread: Audio/sound lag problem

Anyone know what could cause sound/audio choppyness and lag? Whenever I start music or a video the task manager shows the CPU usage jumping to 70-98%. Its never done that before, and not sure what else to do. I've ran countless virus and spyware scans, I've defragged my computer, I've ran disk cleanup along with error checking, I've deleted some programs that take up alot of space, and I even went into msconfig and stopped some services and startup programs. Now my computer is acting fast as hell but when I start playing a video or music the CPU usage still jumps up. Any chance someone could help me figure this out?

What media player program are you using?

Well, its when I use WMP is when it jumps to 90%, youtube brings it up to 50%, just recently used a myspace player for some music and it brought it up to 70% Its pretty much all sounds that lag even when using programs like Ventrilo.

Check for viruses, update your sound drivers. If that doesn't help...who knows.

Already ran multiple scans for spyware and viruses. And bare with me since I'm not the most computer smart person alive, but I'm pretty sure I'm using onboard sound, not sure if those need driver updates >_>

Of course they do. Any sound card, built-in or not, has drivers.
Find out who the chip's manufacturer is and download the latest driver for that built-in sound codec model.