Playing sounds causes unwanted pauses

[Dom]

I'm playing sounds from memory but they're causing my game's graphics to
pause. Does anybody know how to get around this ?
Thanks,
Dom

 

[Chris Tacke, eMVP]

Are you playing the sounds on a separate thread?

 

[Steven Licciardi]

Are you playing it asynchronously using something like:

PlaySound(bstr, IntPtr.Zero, SND_ASYNC Or SND_MEMORY)

Or are you still getting the delay doing it this way?
Steven

 

[Henrik Dahl]

Dom,

Try to initiate the garbage collector just before, so it will not succeed in
anything while this is going on.


Best regards,

Henrik Dahl

 

[Henrik Dahl]

OK,

In the full framework you may give the time to some other thread, as far as
I remember it's by Thread.Sleep(0). What if you do this just before you
play?


Best regards,

Henrik Dahl

 

[SeanC]

I have a freeware sound library on my site (www.intuitex.com) that I use
in my game. No noticable pauses when playing sounds. Plays/mixes waves
and mod files.

Regards

Sean
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