Décidement, le bug du bégaiement n'en fini pas de faire parler de lui. Mark McWilliams, auteur du site blep.net, traitant exclusivement de ce sujet, vient de faire une "decouverte" peu enviable.

En effet, sa toute nouvelle Audigy 4 Pro provoque les pires bugs dans HL2, jugez plutôt :

01/18/05 01:15:50 PM GMT
Just when I thought that my stuttering ills had been mostly cured, they're back and then some. I recently upgraded my sound card from a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum eX to a Sound Blaster Audigy 4 Pro. The sound card works beautifully in all my games and audio apps with the exception of Half-Life 2 where I now experience extreme stuttering as well as distorted and corrupted sound effects followed by a complete system freeze within minutes of starting a new game. This distortion is accompanied by missing buttons and UI elements in Half-Life 2's menus forcing me to quit by bringing up the console.

This is the same widely reported problem that I previously fixed by adjusting my PCI Latency Timer BIOS setting which no longer has any affect on this issue. I can rarely make it out of the train station on the first level before my system is totally frozen.

After spending hours troubleshooting this problem, the only cure I've found is to disable anti-aliasing, which considering my system specs is entirely unacceptable. The recently released ATI CATALYST 5.1 drivers made no difference.

Rappellons que la carte audigy 4 pro est une carte très haut de gamme, au prix moyen sur monsieurprix.com de plus de 250 Euros...
On ne peut qu'esperer que les jeux en tire correctement parti, ce qui semble être le cas...sauf pour HL2.

Soit Mark est maudit, soit c'est HL2.... au vu du nombre de gens touchés par le bug du bégaiement à des degré divers, je ne suis sûr pas que ce soit le webmaster de blep.net qui soit victime de magie noire...