Neo Toxin Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 Ok so I ran into some audio issues between my on-board and HDMI audio, those issues were - sort of - fixed, but I just ended up doing a fresh install of Snow leopard anyway. The issue is that I have horribly stuttering, stretched, slowed down, choppy, audio. And some videos play faster than the audio and others play smooth but with the choppy audio. I really cant explain all of it because its different depending on what im doing. I have provided a link to a youtube video of the issue, link is at the bottom of the post. The video is of my system, doing a few different things that all cause similar but different problems. I have tried using a USB Turtle Beach Audio Advantage Micro which is natively compatible with OS X, when using that I didn't install Voodoohda or any patched AppleHDA. I am running the dongle with the stock apple kexts. When using my On-board HDA I used VoodooHDA (tried several versions) and I had to modify the kext to ignore my HDMI audio. I had the exact same issue. Lastly The audio worked beautifully prior to updating from 10.6 to 10.6.8. It worked perfect with the On-board and the USB both. But after updating to 10.6.8 I have the issue you see in the video. System specs are in my sig, The issue is on Desktop 1. Please read the video description for more details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo Toxin Posted November 12, 2011 Author Share Posted November 12, 2011 Ok well I solved this one relatively fast. I'll Explain: I was downloading Google Chrome, and I notced that while the file was downloading the audio cleared up a little (still sounded like {censored} but it was a little better). Then when it finished it sounded like complete {censored} again, but when I copied it to my Applications folder the audio cleared up again....... So with just a little bit of thinking I decided to check my CPU's power management setting in my BIOS, I check to see if things like Cool n Quiet were enabled, and they weren't. I realized that something about my CPU's usage was affecting my audio, and I confirmed this by running a CPU stress test while playing some music and what do you know, crystal clear audio. After a little digging and googling I decided to try the "busratio=" command at boot. So I took my CPU Multiplier which in My case is 16 and added "busratio=16" to my boot flags in chameleon, once I booted back up, perfect crystal clear audio, and I even got a little bit of a performance increase as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlambert Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 Ok well I solved this one relatively fast. I'll Explain: I was downloading Google Chrome, and I notced that while the file was downloading the audio cleared up a little (still sounded like {censored} but it was a little better). Then when it finished it sounded like complete {censored} again, but when I copied it to my Applications folder the audio cleared up again....... So with just a little bit of thinking I decided to check my CPU's power management setting in my BIOS, I check to see if things like Cool n Quiet were enabled, and they weren't. I realized that something about my CPU's usage was affecting my audio, and I confirmed this by running a CPU stress test while playing some music and what do you know, crystal clear audio. After a little digging and googling I decided to try the "busratio=" command at boot. So I took my CPU Multiplier which in My case is 16 and added "busratio=16" to my boot flags in chameleon, once I booted back up, perfect crystal clear audio, and I even got a little bit of a performance increase as well. Going to try on my AMD system with the same problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnfesq Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 This worked for me! Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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