Video studdering, Youtube flicker, Audio loss exc exc?

 

Win 7 Ult 64 bit 
4.2Ghz quad core 
16GB memory 
GTX760 GBU 

It's been going on a while now, on Netflix the show will just flat stop as will in on any of my media players, VLC exc exc. On youtube it wont stop but it does studder now and then. Any ideas what could be causing this? All my drivers are up to date. I tried to roll them back and also then reupdate them but the problem remains. Really it's more of an irritation but I would love to get it fixed. My computer should be plenty more than enough to watch a Youtube video without studdering every so often.

if you have realtek ac97 codec just turn off UAC it will probably cure the problem.  I ran into that problem a while ago, with a lot of trial and error and a little luck I got it licked, hope it helps :)

if you have realtek ac97 codec just turn off UAC it will probably cure the problem.  I ran into that problem a while ago, with a lot of trial and error and a little luck I got it licked, hope it helps :)

 

 

Thank you for the reply, I don't see that anywhere. I looked in my add and remove programs as well as searched for ac97 and came up empty. How can I tell if it is there or not? 

 

EDIT: Something I just noticed why playing with it. I still have windows sound just no audio on the video. I played a video on VLC and waited for it to stop producing sound, I then plugged in my USB headset and still had no sound, unplugged it and still no sound, muted, paused, changed volume and still no sound. I did get the little chimes windows makes when plugging and unplugging a device and changing the sound just no sound from the video. 

Edited August 18, 201411 yr by jasonw

Don't delete the codec itself, do what Zodiac said and turn off the UAC.

 

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/disable-user-account-control-uac-the-easy-way-on-windows-vista/

Don't delete the codec itself, do what Zodiac said and turn off the UAC.

 

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/disable-user-account-control-uac-the-easy-way-on-windows-vista/

 

 

I shut off UAC but the problem still remains, it's so spuratic it makes it hard to pin point, I just watched a 36 minute video and it worked great, then 15 seconds into another one and the sound goes away.