Fix potential audio problems

#1 cluberti

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Posted 03 April 2008 - 03:38 PM

To those of us who have horrible audio problems under 2008 Server by default (crackling, skipping, hissing, etc) and it worked fine in Vista, consider making the following registry change:

Key: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\multimedia\SystemProfile
Value: SystemResponsiveness
Type: REG_DWORD
Radix: Decimal
Data: 20

This makes Server 2008 behave more like Vista SP1 when scheduling CPU for audio/multimedia threads.

#2 bassgoonist

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Posted 20 July 2008 - 11:21 PM

do I need to use a qword if I'm running 64 bit? (dword is 32, qword is 64)

#3 Mr Snrub

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Posted 21 July 2008 - 02:12 AM

Nope, it is a REG_DWORD value.
It's already present, so this is an edit, not a creation.

#4 bboy_sonik

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Posted 10 January 2009 - 03:06 PM

It is a good tweak, and does indeed work. After restarting, I no longer had a tiny pause/pop when ALT+TAB between programs while playing WMA music. Cheers!

#5 xrtelecom

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Posted 12 March 2009 - 03:51 AM

Hi all i am tryin to edit the system reg with the below fix having skipping sound problems with server 2008 please could someone offer me some help ive been tryin to find this entry in the system reg file and cant find it anywhere.Some remote support would be very helpfull.

Kind Regards
NEIL

Key: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\multimedia\SystemProfile
Value: SystemResponsiveness
Type: REG_DWORD
Radix: Decimal
Data: 20

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