sound stutter

have read the forum but not quite getting this worked out, I had to clean install my machine and have a stuttering when playing music/ movies etc. this is mainly when cpu gets busy. the mainboard is an msiky6v-lsr (ms-7021) with on board sound and I have installed the latest driver i could find,got stutter, then i put a version from mate's cd on which was a bit older vers 5.10.0.6230 but still stuttering. Was fine prior to reformat. i have installed then deleted windows live cam which i beleive installed drivers into sound card. so i see several drivers in the device section when running everest. if I list them, I would like to know which could go, as I'm unsure of what should be there and what shouldn't.and is there any obvious reason for stutter other than sound driver?
under sound>hardware>drivers
hl-dt-st dvdram gsa-4163b (obviously burner)
unimodem half duplex audio device (use adsl no modem needed, is this web cam? cam has microphone inbuilt)
realtek AC'97 audio for via (r) audio controller
audio codecs
legacy audio drivers
media control devices
legacy video capture devices
video codecs

under sound drivers in everest:
midi out ms gs wavetable sw synth
mixer.0 realtek ac"97 audio
wavein.0 realtek ac'97 audio
wavein.1 modem#0 line record
waveout.0 realtek ac'97
waveout.1 modem#0 line playback

I'm not sure about this modem#0 driver, is it needed or perhaps part of web cam and can be uninstalled? as I dont wan't to clear a basic driver and make the problem worse. but wonder if it might be clashing? the camera was previously installed without issue.
any ideas?

 

I'm guessing you're using XP.
Go to Control Panel>Sounds and Audio Devices.
On the Audio tab, is Realtek chosen for your Default Sound playback?
On the Volume tab, click Advanced in the Speaker settings.
On the Performance tab, is Hardware Acceleration set to Full?
If it is, you may need to slide it down some.
See if that helps.

 

it was default so ok there, i had acceleration set at maximum and toning this down to standard appears to have fixed the stutter well done! I hope that fixes that.cheers

 

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