Audio Glitches when moving mouse

this is not normal. what sort of video card do you have? perhaps is not powerful enough, or perhaps try turning off some of the graphic FX in XP.

Are you using the NVidia drivers, or the Windows drivers? Sometimes disabling your video cards settings from within the video card interface (NView) will degrade overall performance. This is because your video card will defer its workload to your cpu ... which is not what you want. Make sure that your NVidia is in a balanced operating mode. And make sure you are using the latest drivers. Try switching to the basic Windows theme too.

This sounds like am IRQ sharing problem.

Best
John

Turn down the Video Acceleration on Windows-Display Properties. Also make sure you are using ASIO driver mode. There's a section in the Help Menu called "Dropouts and other Audio Problems" that has some tips on how to tune your computer for audio.

Thanks, but I'm not turning Video Acceration down. I've never had this problem with other versions of Sonar-- just 6. I've never had performance problems with my other software. I can run the fastest games, 100 track sessions, etc. The computer is plenty fast enough. If anyone knows of a better resource that lets you see all of your IRQs at the same time, that would probably help most.

Thanks to everyone for a great response! I have adjusted down the video accelaration but still seem to have these glitches. I have included my system hardware in the signature, this might help.
Thanks again to all of you!!

What soundcard? What driver mode are you using?

With all my respect, please read your response here.

Thanks, but I'm not turning Video Acceration down. I've never had this problem with other versions of Sonar-- just 6. I've never had performance problems with my other software. I can run the fastest games, 100 track sessions, etc. The computer is plenty fast enough. If anyone knows of a better resource that lets you see all of your IRQs at the same time, that would probably help most.

You posted saying you had a symtom that was manifesting and it appeared to me that you were asking for help. But when someone made a legitimate suggestion, it appeared to me that you were more interested in being right then removing the symptom.

Different releases will expose problems that may have been covered up in previous releases. Maybe SONAR 6 is drawing things differently than SONAR 5 and this is conflicting with you system and is showing up as glitches when the mouse moves. You've got to decide if you want the symptom to go away immediately or wait until SONAR changes it's behavior.

I say this because I've had situations where a piece of hardware no longer works on my system. It manifests as system instability. I had to make a choice. Hang on to the hardware, wait for new drivers or revert to a previous state. I've got a feeling that your problem could be with your Radeon Vidio card. It's not based on anything more than listening to others with Radeon cards and owning one myself. I'm getting some of the symptoms mentioned but changing the acceleration speed seems to affect it. I've changed out video cards before when problems occured and I'll likely do it again. In fact the last time I had a problem, a quick trip to a corner computer shop turned up a used dual head card in a used parts bin that only set me back a few bucks.

I just say this to save you a few headaches and some time. Give it a try if you haven't already. What could it hurt? Maybe it is IRQ problems? Why limit your solutions?

Sometimes this can happen when audio cables and computer cables are next to each other. make sure your cables are not lying next to each other.

ORIGINAL: 56speedster

Hello Dave: This was not a response by me, it was from dontletmedrown, I thought that comment was disrespectful myself. Any how I have tried lowering the hardware accelaration but still seem to have these glitching sounds while moving mostly while using the drop down menus. Again I have full respect for your trouble and time to help us newbies out.
Thanks again, James

Yes, I was responding to don'tletmedrown.

I've discovered that the key to solving many of these kinds of problems is keeping an open mind and not limiting your chances of success by chaining yourself to the past. Just because something didn't fix something a month or a year ago or you didn't have the problem last week doesn't mean it doesn't exit now and it can't be fixed by something that you tried a month ago.

It could be a combination of two things in certain circumstances so it could be a bit like a tumbler combination lock. Sure, #2 didn't open it last week but if you combind it with #5, it opens.

I had a ground loop in a laptop once that did this....very strange it was indeed....the basic ground loop was barely audible during playback, but as soon as I moved the mouse it would make the ground loop shift in pitch and intensity with the mouse movements...mysterious are the ways in which computer are wired...