Thursday, December 26, 2013

Some trouble with Valve games on the Steam Machine

I've had some performance issues while trying to play through Valve games on the Steam Machine.  However, I can only recreate these issues under certain conditions.

The first pattern I've noticed is that Source games seem to get glitchy/stuttery/slow during and after drive reads, sometimes to the point of total crash.

The second is that these performance problems seem to occur ONLY when I'm using analog audio.  I haven't been able to reproduce them while playing using the HDMI out.

I also haven't been able to get any confirmation from other testers, so it may just be something odd about my system.

Does anyone know how analog audio and hard drive access (save, load, load level) might team up to create issues?  Or am I missing the forest for the trees?

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