What is AUDIODG.EXE?

re: What is AUDIODG.EXE?

stumped — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:52:06 GMT

hello - i have looked tried all sorts of forums but nobody has an answer - thought i'd post here because you understand AUDIODG.EXE - and i'm desperate :(

Vista 'beeps' at odd times - when i navigate aol email, highlight (click on) some functions of some other programs - it plays the default beep - "windows ding.wav" - --> ! there are NO sound themes for these actions! / they never beeped in xp.

If i delete the windows ding.wav file then my pc speaker beeps instead.

i ran the program process explorer and noticed there was a little cpu usage for audiog.exe whenever this problem occurred.

How can i figure out why vista sends a signal to play a sound under these particular circumstances?

re: What is AUDIODG.EXE?

Arthur Roberts — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:16:00 GMT

My 13 year old partition survives yet another upgrade! I just resovled my problem where there was no sound after upgrading to Vista. More details can be found here:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1387492&SiteID=1

Hopefully, this might help some of you out.

re: What is AUDIODG.EXE?

Errol — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 04:34:08 GMT

OK, so I just read through all the comments posted here and am having a similar problem, I just installed Vista Home Premium and have been running around fixing driver problems over the past two days. One I can't seem to come to terms with is the audiodg.exe one... it just eats my cpu and memory, hovering between 0 and 20% when IDLE... and jumping to 99% when in itunes playing music.

I'm running a Creative X-fi Music with brand new Vista drivers... 16 bit sound and 48 KHz quality... I'm also using audio tools to enhance sound, but it's nothing different than what I used on XP with no problems. I don't have mobo sound so the sound card is really my only option. Please help!

re: What is AUDIODG.EXE?

Arthur Roberts — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:59:31 GMT

Hi Larry, I'm having trouble getting sound out of a system upgraded to Vista from XP and I believe it's related to this new audio engine. Even if I completely remove my Audigy2 ZS and switch over to my on-board AC'97, still no sound. However, a fresh install of Vista to another partition works perfectly. Vista level II support and I have tried everything: uninstalling drivers, re-installing drivers, even installing codecs. I think they're going to give up on me soon.

Taking matters into my own hands, I've been running Sysinternals Procmon to compare the two Vista installations and it looks like the AudioEng.dll is just not being invoked for sounds in the upgrade Vista. Is there any way to verify that this engine is installed correctly or re-install it? Or is there a way to tell the Vista upgrade installer to re-install the engine?

I want to keep this upgrade installation going and not start over fresh for sentimental reasons. That's because this installtion is 13 years old! That's right, I've been upgrading hardware and Windows versions in this installation since Windows 3.1! Help me Larry, I don't want Vista to be the one that breaks the streak!

re: What is AUDIODG.EXE?

Nikola — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 06:45:05 GMT

I get processor usage from audiodg.exe only when CMSS-3D is on on my X-fi. Hope that helps. Other built-in effects don't use software processing and seem to only use the card's built-in hardware.

re: What is AUDIODG.EXE?

Larry Osterman [MSFT] — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 17:25:09 GMT

Chris, you're going to want to get the AC97 driver that goes with your motherboard, you should either use the XP driver that came with it or go to the DFI web site and see if they have an updated driver.

Otherwise you're likely to find all sorts of strange problems.

re: What is AUDIODG.EXE?

Chris Swinney — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:20:24 GMT

Just goggled for audiodg.exe and I too have come across this site as I am having issue with audio on my motherboard.

I have a DFI Infinity Ultra II with nForce 2 ultra 400 chipset and a Realtek ALC650 on-broad audio chip.

Vista business installed some Nvidia drivers (MCP Audio Processing and Audio Codec) and although the sound worked, after a while of use it would either degrade or drop out completely. If watching a video, the video system would slow to a crawl. Restarting the Windows Audio and Windows Audio Endpoint Builder service restored the sound for a short while, but really a reboot was needed.

After checking out the spec of the MB, I realised that a Realtek chip was used so went over the Realtek and downloaded their AC97 Vista drivers. I installed and everything appeared to be fine, but then I notice a couple of issues.

Firstly, the system is taking an age to boot and almost appear to hang between the green startup bar and the Vista logo being displayed. Secondly, I have no recording devices and if I go onto the "Sound Control Panel" applet and look at the Recording devices, Audiodg.exe immediately starts consuming large amounts of CPU time and the applet hangs. I have to end the Audiodg.exe process and restart the Windows audio drivers to get anything back.

I still have the Nvidia MCP driver listed in Device manager and cannot uninstall (or at least it doesn't go away) but I am wondering what the issue might be. Is this an issue with the Realtek drivers or with Audiodg.exe?

If I get windows to look for an updated Realtek AC97 Codec diver, it reverts back to the NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio Codec Interface.

Chris

re: What is AUDIODG.EXE?

Weber — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:42:27 GMT

Having memory issue... My default format is 16 bit, 44100 hz (CD Quality).

Thanks

re: What is AUDIODG.EXE?

Bill — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:00:28 GMT

Same issue 10%-15% utilization when playing music through windows media player (only thing I've tested).

If I hit pause during playback down to 0%

Creative Labs X-FI card driver version 6.0.1.1261 (downloaded last week)

Vista Ultimate

Intel e6600, 2GB pc8500, evga 680i MB

re: What is AUDIODG.EXE?

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:32:13 GMT

I have a 965P-DQ6 v.2 and am using Realtek onboard sound. My problem with audiodg.exe concerns CPU usage. Usage runs over 40% at times.