Record Stuck

[sagji]

Occasionally I get a "record stuck" effect where it plays the first 1/2-1 second of a sound then stops and does it again and again and again for a good 15 - 60 seconds. While it is doing this the display doesn't react to mouse events - however they are all actioned at the end - often with unfortunate effects like moving a unit you didn't intend to move.

[firepowerjohan]

Occasionally I get a "record stuck" effect where it plays the first 1/2-1 second of a sound then stops and does it again and again and again for a good 15 - 60 seconds. While it is doing this the display doesn't react to mouse events - however they are all actioned at the end - often with unfortunate effects like moving a unit you didn't intend to move.

Are you are running the high spec version and if so, do you have the 1 GB RAM as it requiered?

[sagji]

I am running the low spec option.

Machine has 512MB ram, 3 GHz CPU.

[IainMcNeil]

Your processor is easily enough but it may be your RAM is being sucked up by other applications running in the background leading to some stuttering. You can see a full list of programs running in your task manager and how much RAM eash is using.

[sagji]

Nothing obvious - except explorer.exe which is essential.
Closing the few non-essential, and several less-essential, programs appears to reduce the frequency of the problem.
Turning all the sounds off didn't solve the problem - just harder to notice and less annoying, and possibly less frequent.