SonicMasterTray SonicFocusTray.exe
| Item Name: | SonicMasterTray | File Name: | SonicFocusTray.exe |
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| Tech Note: Sonic Focus sound effect sucks My new computer system has an ASUS P5K-E WiFi-AP motherboard which comes with an Analog Devices SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD Audio chip. Very unfortunately, that in turn comes equipped with the Sonic Focus audio effect. This piece of crap leaks twenty registry handles per second when any multimedia application is running, which meant that just due to having Movie Maker open (so I could encode video), it leaked 500,000 registry handles before I noticed the source. It showed up as 500,000 open handles by audiodg.exe in Task Manager (with "Show All Processes" selected), but since audiodg.exe is just hosting third party code, I figured there had to be more to it and so tracked it down further. I used Process Monitor from SysInternals. I ran that As Admin, gave it a filter for audiodg.exe, and then noted the obvious leak and then debugged/tracked down that call to SonicFocus' broken binaries. The SonicFocus web site has a minor update, but it doesn't fix this. This is puzzling: was this tested? After going to the Control Panel : Hardware and Sounds : Manage Audio Devices, clicking the Speakers option, clicking Properties, clicking System Effects, then clicking "Disable System Effects" this problem goes away (no more handles are leaked, but you have to restart the system to free the leaked handles), but this is still unacceptable. I'll be following up to see what can be done about this, but this is ridiculously bad. | |||
