[radx]

I recently bought a nuforce uDAC-3 because I grew tired of the poor sound quality my internal sound card gave me. After installing the new DAC I disabled the internal soundcard in my bios. After that XBMC started to act weird. I have a multi-monitor setup so I usually run XBMC on one of my monitors and do work on the other.

The problem
Everytime I focus on some other program other than XBMC and then focus back on XBMC, XBMC freezes for a good 10-15 seconds. It doesn't matter if i'm playing a movie or just idling on the start screen.

What I've tried
I've tried to change sound settings inside XBMC but no matter what I've tried have helped. I have also removed the new DAC and reinstalled the internal sound card. That helps but that is not acceptable.

Anyone else experienced this?

[PatK]

XBMC wasn't designed as a multi-tasking program. That said, looks like some code is being cached (O/S or XBMC) and then brought back alive; you have to live with the copy & expansion time or increase/decrease whatever cache, buffer or diskcache. OTH this could be just the code swap between audio devices. A proper debug log would help you see the issues and bottle necks, in code time 10 seconds is very long and should show up.

[BartOtten]

Using sex instead of sec in the title DID indeed make me focus a bit more

[radx]

I guess there isn't much you can do to help this then. It's just weird it was never an issue before. Not until I installed the new DAC.

Lol funny typo on the subject.. Bet people read that twice

[Kib]

I had that issue where I would freeze for sex as well when I was about 12.