Annoying flickering in Modern Warfare 2

[Colonel Mitch]

I thought you had it in the spare x16 slot?


From what I remember from some reviews (of pretty much all mobos that use an x1 card for sound,) the top x1 slot was made purely for the SupremeFX card, so even though it's another audio card there's probably a few things going wrong somewhere as the mobo is most likely thinking it's essentially on-board audio or something of the sort.

I checked several places and it states its a regular 1x slot. Ive moved it into one of the spare 16x now well see how this goes...

UPDATE: Hasn't fixed it, steam updated MW2 as well but no change.

As the audio card encodes in real time using a software based engine, think its possible theyre bother hammering 1 core of my processor at the same time?

UPDATE2: set asus aduio, windows audio and windows localhost audio to realtime and affinity to core 1, and MW2 to core 0, and managed to get through a whole game with no fail at all. could be a fluke but will try in more games and well see