| Well, if it's what I think it is, it sounds like you need a faster machine. My old 800 mHz Windows ME system used to behave like that, with my Delta 1010. When there was nothing else running, it would mostly be okay and I'd only get an occasional glitch. The minute anything else was running (Internet was the worst, I had a PPPOE connection at the time), the audio software would start glitching and popping.
The most important thing, I've discovered, is the physical memory. If you dedicate lots of physical RAM to your audio buffers, then your machine won't have to work as hard (all the audio transfers are done by DMA across the PCI bus, so the CPU only has to get involved at the beginning and end of each transfer).
After doing this type of thing for a number of years, and encountering just about every problem of this type under the sun, I finally got a dedicated audio PC with lots of memory and a decent operating system (Win 2k), and it works flawlessly now, with the same audio hardware that was crapping out before on the older slower machine.
Can you tell us a little more about your system?
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