Teamspeak3 Breaking up DirectSound

[Galactica]

Hi

I noticed few weeks ago that when I tried to play some music in "Spotify" it would give me an error that something is wrong with my soundcard. Recently I traced it down to Teamspeak3. Killing Teamspeak3 process would make Spotify work.

Sometime i get no sound from Teamspeak3 aswell and I can only fix it by restarting the client.

Also sometimes the sound would "lagg" in Spotify for 1-2 sek and then play along but when I try to change song Spotify would display a error message again.

Also if I play a song and start Teamspeak3 the song plays until end and when it is about to play a new song in the playlist it would show this error.

OS: Windows 7 x64 RTM (7600)
Sound: Creative Elite Pro (PCI)
Chipset: ATI 790FX
Latest Drivers.

Edit, Found that using Creative Alchemy program (DirectSound -> OpenAL) seems to work like a workarround. Thing is i have no idea why Spotify and Teamspeak3 is arguing about.
But having Spotify in OpenAL mode is not a good idea because OpenAL only supports GameMode in Creative. Tried doing the same thing in Teamspeak3 but root folder or plugin folder seems have no effect on Teamspeak3.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2137335/problem_workarrond.png

This happens only when having Teamspeak3 launched.


Best Regards
Galactica

[Galactica]

Anyone got a solution?

[dergutehirte]

That seems not to be a problem with "Spotify" only. I got some errors if i try to start and connect Counterstrike 1.6 over Steam. Sometimes it just shows up the Counterstrike Backround and nothing seems to happend. After restarting Teamspeak 3 everything works fine.It seems that there maybe a problem with the audiodg.exe that call this problem.
In a earlier Version of TS3 there was also a Problem with the audiodg.exe in combination with the Banner of the server as gif grafic, where the cpu got a permanent load up to 50%. I already updated the driver from my soundcard to the actually version, but this didnt solve the problem.

[maggy]

In TS3, have you tried using other options besides DirectSound? What does it use when the default value is selected?

[Galactica]

I use directsound. Gonna try different modes now and report my findings. By the way what soundcard do you guys use?

[Galactica]

I can say not it is not only Spotify that has this issue. Last time had some sound problems with media player classic and when i killed ts3 the problem was gone.

I am now using Windows Audio Session but the problem remains. I am not sure why this is happening to us but one thing is sure there is something in TS3 that eather my soundcard drivers hate or the soundcard as whole.

[Galactica]

I have noticed that Audiodg.exe jumps from 0-1% CPU usage to about 10% when TS3 is idle and jumps sometimes to 20%

Anyone else having this?