Originally posted by russofris
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But something like that yes.
Originally posted by russofris
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But I object to people falsely attributing something to OS design when clearly the OS can function properly on a given subset of the available hardware.
The cause is with drivers or applications stealing too much CPU time.
I've come across this many times with those monitoring utilities that come with most motherboards. Generally they will update once or twice per second, reading out voltages, frequencies and whatnot. Problem is, I found many of these utilities to hog the system during that time. If you were to play a game, even a simple game such as Portal 2, you'd see it stutter at that exact interval. Just close off the monitor utility, and it's smooth as butter.
Another offender I have found was the HD dock utility that comes with VIA onboard HD audio. If you leave it running in the tray, you will also see this 'spiky' behaviour in games and such (on Vista/Win7 at least, XP has an older version of the tray utility which does not suffer from this problem).
Close the utility, and the problem is gone (the audio device itself works fine).
Now, many other audio devices have similar utilities that don't suffer from this issue, so clearly it is not some kind of deficiency in Windows.
And to get back to the Mac... well, what choice of motherboards/onboard audio and utilities do you have there? Exactly...
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