Scratchy sound when playing games!

[Woomera]

it started few days ago, when im running games likw WOW my sound gets scratchy like the CPU is at 99% but when i minimize the game it gets to normal and when going in game again it happens again.from sysinternals process explorer i see that for few seconds after i minimize the game explorer.exe is at like 30% but no more and it cools down to 2-3% after that.

any help?

[Tripredacus]

What changed a few days ago? Install any programs, download anything, update any software? update any drivers? hook up any hardware, stop using something or uninstall a program?

[Woomera]

OMG the only software/hardware i have installed in past few days is google chrome! but its not running, though im gonna uninstall it and will report.

Update: yep that was it.uninstalled chrome,restarted and everything is fine again.pretty lame though! (Using vista X64)

Edited September 11, 2008 by Woomera

[Tripredacus]

That's pretty weird. I am guessing that if you had used it, but not while playing games, that it may perhaps have some sleeper processes, or perhaps it has a memory hole/leak (like Firefox used to). That is definately an interesting issue and you should probably report it if possible.