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[ted]

I've been using, and loving VAC since it was release a few weeks ago, but I ran into something for the second time now, the game (PF) slows to a crawl! I ALT+TABed out to see what the issue was, and it was a running process taking 80% of my CPU cycles.

I killed the process, then put it into google, and it came back as something to do with MS voice pack. Has anyone else run into this issue? Is there a fix or workaround?

Thanks in advance,

Ted

[Shift_E]

I've been using, and loving VAC since it was release a few weeks ago, but I ran into something for the second time now, the game (PF) slows to a crawl! I ALT+TABed out to see what the issue was, and it was a running process taking 80% of my CPU cycles.

I killed the process, then put it into google, and it came back as something to do with MS voice pack. Has anyone else run into this issue? Is there a fix or workaround?

Thanks in advance,

Ted

Hi Ted,

Try another speech profile training session. If that doesn['t work save your VAC profile, un-install and re-install. From what I read, it looks like a support XML file for SAPI may have got corrupt. It happened once to me, I just can't remember how I corrected the problem. Too many beers and years.

Let me know,

[ted]

Thanks Shift-E! I'll give it a try today and report on the results. If nothing else, I'll write down the running process if it ever occurrs again.

One more ?, I noticed I can set the processor priority for the VAC application, and it was set on highest. If I tone it down a bit, do you think that could have an effect?

Thanks again

Ted

[Shift_E]

Thanks Shift-E! I'll give it a try today and report on the results. If nothing else, I'll write down the running process if it ever occurrs again.

One more ?, I noticed I can set the processor priority for the VAC application, and it was set on highest. If I tone it down a bit, do you think that could have an effect?

Thanks again

Ted

Yes, process priority has a big effect on some games. When playing counter-strike I have to run it on normal. IL2 seems to do better at above normal, but I can run it on normal with no problem. Play with it yourself as it depends on your system. Come to think of it with I was playing Counter-Strike with VAC set to above normal I would get SAPI hangs and setting it to normal would let things run smooth again.