Audio stuttering problem

[ASON-Z-]

Whenever a character speaks, the game stutters. And various other sound effects make the game stutter as well. Is anyone else going through this problem? Any solutions?

[Sikobae]

Buggy audio drivers or low FPS.

[Blyte]

_snd_mixahead "0.200"
//you can try a differant numbers to see if it helps 0.100 - 0.400
0.200 is the half-life default setting in the config.cfg file.

You can also add this to your userconfig.cfg file to see if it helps. It preallocates ram memory for only the audio to use.
bgmbuffer 4092

You can also add -heapsize 512000 to the half-life launch options. This will preallocate 512mb. ram memory for the game to use before the game starts.

[LiveWire]

Originally posted by aSeriesOfNumbers:

Whenever a character speaks, the game stutters. And various other sound effects make the game stutter as well. Is anyone else going through this problem? Any solutions?

Had it with windows 8, as said above it was the sound drivers.

[Blyte]

This can also be caused from excessive read ing writting to the hard drive from the OS or programs running in the backgroud.