Playing Music Slows Vista Network Performance? 748
An anonymous reader writes "Over the months since Vista's release, there has been no doubt about the reduced level of network performance experienced compared to Windows XP. However, some users over at the 2CPU forums have discovered an unexplained connection with audio playback resulting in a cap at approximately 5%-10% of total network throughput. Whenever any audio is being sent to a sound card (even, several users report, while paused), network performance is instantly reduced. As soon as the audio is stopped, the throughput begins to climb to its expected speed. It's a tough one for users — what do you pick, sound or speed? So much for multi-tasking."
Conspiracy! (Score:5, Funny)
In The United States Of Alphane (Score:1, Funny)
Wow! (Score:5, Funny)
Wow! I bet streaming audio must suck!
coldplay (Score:3, Funny)
Sorry, could not resist.
Re:Wow! (Score:5, Funny)
Whatever you do, absolutely do not try this with RealPlayer on Vista. That has the potential to result in catastrophic system failure.
Re:how on earth? (Score:4, Funny)
My 0.02? Its all the DRM piling up at an astounding rate, bringing the network to its knees.
CHECK SECURITY CERTIFICATE...NOT FOUND
CHECK SECURITY CERTIFICATE...NOT FOUND
CHECK SECURITY CERTIFICATE...NOT FOUND
And so on and so forth. Could be wrong though.
Re:coldplay (Score:4, Funny)
Re:how on earth? (Score:4, Funny)
The smoke from the cigars mixes in the air of the smoke-filled back rooms where these things are decided between the content cartel and the company that makes Windows Media Central or whatever that thing used to be called.
Re:coldplay (Score:5, Funny)
Mu. Only Mac users listen to Coldplay.
Re:antiFUD of poorest quality (Score:5, Funny)
Introducing... (Score:3, Funny)
Music Benchmarks:
Windows 3.11_ **********
Windows Vista ***
And it comes with Reversi, too!
Clearly (Score:5, Funny)
Seems perfectly reasonable to me. If you don't like it, there are plenty of alternatives out there.
Re:how on earth? (Score:5, Funny)
You must be new here . . . but how did you grab such a low UID?
Re:how on earth? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wow! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:That is nothing (Score:1, Funny)
Re:how on earth? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:how on earth? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:how on earth? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Or more accurately (Score:3, Funny)
Still don't see any reason why someone would use this as an OS over XP right now.
Still amazed they encoded "it's eye candy!" in the name of the OS.
Re:how on earth? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:how on earth? (Score:5, Funny)
Who are you calling a newbie, newbie?
For teh win (Score:1, Funny)
Re:how on earth? (Score:5, Funny)
There is one thing that can summon the Great Old Ones.
One.
And that is the implication that someone with a higher UID is one of them.
I claim my prize for having successfully beckoned a few and retire to the library for brandy and cigars.
Re:For teh win (Score:5, Funny)
No, you're not. He hasn't posted [slashdot.org] in a while.
Re:how on earth? (Score:5, Funny)
The Slashdor ID was probably inherited from a "wierd uncle" which died in a strange accident in his basement when a pile of old Sun workstations fell on top of him.
Re:you're being passive aggressive (Score:5, Funny)
I guess they just want to Think Different, but you'd think that they'd use desktop and GUI concepts similar to what Windows uses. And yet strangely, several million Windows users started using Macs this year.
Re:how on earth? (Score:4, Funny)
Not very accurate (Score:5, Funny)
The new look and feel can be turned off, in which case it certainly isn't slower. I'd consider it faster then XP to be honest.
I like its smart use of dead cycles and unused RAM for indexing and precaching. I like the new explorer options and much improved searching.
All in all it's certainly a step forward.
I don't know if I'd say it's worth upgrading over XP for most people that are running XP just fine now. But I certainly would suggest Vista over XP if one were going to be buying one OS or the other.
Re:Or more accurately (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wow! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:DRM strikes again? (Score:0, Funny)
Re:DRM strikes again? (Score:0, Funny)
Now I don't think Vista is slowing down network traffic while listening to music to send hash-info about what you are listening to the RIAA, because : I don't think the RIAA would be smart enough to think of that or know what to do with hash-info, let alone info. But it's just my opinion, while we may not have the source code of Vista to know what it is doing, I'm pretty sure it's either somewhere in the EULA
I found out why my boot times were poor (Score:2, Funny)
Re:DRM strikes again? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:DRM strikes again? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:DRM strikes again? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:DRM strikes again? (Score:5, Funny)
Talented artists like Britney Spears
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Re:not really (Score:1, Funny)
Disclaimer (Score:3, Funny)
I use terms like "M$" and "Windoze" because I believe that they're clever, and Netcraft confirms that cleverness scores people mod points around here, although it doesn't always work.
As always, I ignore people who reply to me to point out I am either lying or just flapping uselessly in the wind. I find reason and logic to be inconvenient in my quest to convince the world that they must switch to free software or suffer the consequences. I consider myself an "evangelist" and I believe people should put up with me because I Am Right.
But, I urge you to just use your head when reading my posts. Most of what I say can safely be discarded as sophomoric fluff designed to bring out the worse in people. Make your own choices about technology and be smart.
Thanks.
Re:how on earth? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:how on earth? (Score:3, Funny)
Any sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from incompetence. Or is that the other way around?
The truth about Vista sound (Score:5, Funny)
Once it determines the maximum quality feedback parameters, it backs off various parameters to try to reduce the computational footprint. It keeps a record of these adjustments and periodically adds them back in temporarily to make sure the basic parameters are still valid. If any of these trials show the need, it will restart the complete feedback search cycle.
Where does the network figure in all this, you ask? Simple. All that I have described so far is reactive feedback. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, or more usefully, predicting how much feedback control is necessary can pay bigger dividends -- more bang for the buck, so to speak -- than reactive analysis. If it can tell what you are doing from packet analysis, it has a better chance of predicting your head position. It looks at HTML pages and tries to guess what content is shown, in order to know if it is likely to affect your head position, and then tries to guess where that content will show on the screen, in order to predict where your head will be.
Coupled with mouse and keyboard controls, this can lead to amazing sound quality from the piss-poor speakers found on most laptops, even simulating 5.1 speaker systems with just the two speakers found on most computers.
Now you know.
Re:DRM strikes again? (Score:5, Funny)
Dude, who taught you punctuation? Arnold Rimmer??
Re:how on earth? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Microsoft user here. (Score:3, Funny)
s/upgrading/changing/;
Re:DRM strikes again? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The truth about Vista sound (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The truth about Vista sound (Score:2, Funny)
Of course, nose hair should be factored, unless its distortion floor is overwhelmed by facial hair.
Re:DRM strikes again? (Score:2, Funny)