Performance Problems

[Urkle]

Do you know if it would be possible to convert the 3.5mm output to USB somehow, are there any devices for that?

I do not thinks so, since the USB is actually a sound device, (ie.. the full DAC and all) not just an output device. In theory once you get a faster CPU the USB should be less of a problem.

And an other thing if the sound is choppy/stutters, then the whole game stutters like mad. I guess it has to do with pulseaudio not being finished yet. When I'm starting a game, I have to restart it until the intro music isn't stuttering, then the game will function just fine (if I haven't forgot to open a window).

Oh, don't get me started on pulse audio... It's what I've been fighting with for a while..

Sound was GREAT on my box until I enabled pulse audio to test issues people were reporting with it.. Now it stutters like mad. One reason why I still keep My SB Live card. It does HARDWARE mixing :-D. So I can point all of my apps directly to the sound devices. I wish pulseaudio would take advantage of that.

Right now I'm actually using the "Big Mac" in Fedora 11 to test the upcoming linux patch. On that machine pulse audio isn't as much of a problem (mainly because of the multiple cores). And I can even run the game while keeping compiz running :-D.