Can I Set Hardware Priority for Audio?

[Agent Smith]

Ever since I installed my OS onto a bigger hard drive, my audio performance
has been miserable. I updated the audio driver to the latest version, and
that fixed most of the problem, but it still gets choppy occasionally,
especially when another app makes a heavy demand on system resources.

That makes me think that that this must be a priority issue, and that I
need to set my audio priority above everything else, except maybe the
clock. Is there any way to do that under XP, and if so, what are the
commands? TIA. ?

 

[Bill in Co.]

Why would installing it on a larger drive have anything to do with it? I
think it's an installation (driver related) issue, that has nothing to do
with the larger drive, but just the fact that you reinstalled the OS, and,
for some reason, it's not working well with the previous (or current) sound
driver. One option might be to uninstall or remove it in Device Manager,
and let the sound driver get reinstalled (perhaps more correctly) this
time - perhaps even using the older driver - THAT should have been debugged
first.

 

[Agent Smith]

Why would installing it on a larger drive have anything to do with it?

That was just background.

I think it's an installation (driver related) issue, that has
nothing to do with the larger drive, but just the fact that you
reinstalled the OS, and, for some reason, it's not working well with
the previous (or current) sound driver. One option might be to
uninstall or remove it in Device Manager, and let the sound driver get
reinstalled (perhaps more correctly) this time - perhaps even using
the older driver - THAT should have been debugged first.

I did that already.