Sound stuttering after Mountain Lion install

Keep us appraised. I've talked to Level 2 tech support over 6 times since release, and other departments. So far, nothing yet other than to have the computer taken to the genius bar. Which I'm not doing because it's doing it on both of my computers and started immediately at the same time and it doesn't do it under Snow Leopard. But I can't use SL because certain apps won't work.

This is definitely Apple trying to compete with Windows Vista for worst OS in a while. So far, they have a good shot by me.

Things I've noticed trigger the audio stutter, video stutter, and cursor jumping on my USB mouse are screen saver activation/deactivation, email coming in, opening applications, and any other sudden change in system activity. It doesn't have to be a heavy load or process either. Usually it's pretty medial tasks that initiate it.

Also, I do have a Thunderbolt display attached to my iMac, which I doubt would have any influence. But I throw it out there to see if others might also have an external display that might be influencing this behavior. Again, very doubtful though.

This SНІT will be gone in the next OS X release, probably, and we, apple foolboys, will be asked for yet another 20 bucks to get it right.

I emailed Mr Cook himself on Wednesday and low and behold i got a nice lady on my phone today explaining that she has been asked to contact me and arrange a member from the senior technical support team call me regarding the Mountain Lion problem with iMacs.

So with that i would like to let everyone know that apple are on the case and Mr Tim Cook does read his emails.

Thank You apple!

I think you mean problem with Mountain Lion. I have a macbook and suffer from the same thing. It's interesting to point out that there're numerous reports outside this forum by gamers, just after installing Mountain Lion, like this (http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/6246865770) and others already mentioned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vqDQfgOTTk

Not to burst your bubble, but I also contacted executive relations about a month ago. When I spoke to them they set up a technician to contact me by phone which led me to three more technicians contacting over the curse of two weeks and were unable to do anything. They had me make modifications to the operating system, run a DMG file for an image capture, and a few other changes which ultimately led to the operating system becoming completely unstable forcing everything to have to be wiped on the computer and a fresh install performed.

After this yielded no results, the Apple executive relations person told me that I need to take both of my 27 inch iMacs to Apple so that the Genius Bar could run more tests and diagnostic on the computers. Despite my referencing this Apple discussion post, the fact that the problem did not exhibit itself undersell Leopard, or under Boot Camp Windows, and that the issue was clearly related to only Mountain lion, They were of no further help.

Hopefully will get further than I do, and if you get please post back with what you find if anything results in a fix. Best of luck.

Thanks for the heads up and of course if any progress is made i will update the thread. 🙂

I updated to 10.8.2, sadly still having troubles with fast-forwarding followed by stuttering audio. But I wanted to share a temporary fix.

Close the file and reopen, and that works. But that loses my spot so that was getting annoying. I found out I could go to Trim mode (command-T) and back out, and the audio would fix itself. (And not lose my spot.) (< On an individual basis. It usually breaks again sometime the next video.)

Don't know if this will work for anyone else but it's worth a shot 🙂

(I'm on a 2012 MacBook Pro 15")

No luck here unfortunately. I fired up a game on my computer from a cold start where the computer hadn't even had a chance to warm up in a room that is 68 degrees. Temperature didn't seem to make any kind of a difference. So i'll throw the heat related issue out.

Have given up even attempting to listen to music via my iMac. Just more concerned about the overall system performance - three freezes tonight, the computer did not auto reboot but did freeze for around 30 seconds on each occasion.

Will be contacting Apple tomorrow, requesting a refund and details on how I can reinstall Lion and get this current cr*p operating system off my computer. Feeling pretty disgusted at the moment, completely unacceptable that an Apple product doesn't function on a £2,200 Apple computer.

(Whoops - I didn't specify, this was for Quicktime Player. I haven't had problems in other applications.)

Show them this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Sm9fkx-hTk&feature=g-upl

Just did the 10.8.2 update......of course same problems. Audio stuttering / crackling / then cuts out completely along with mouse pointer jumping and graphical stuttering. Exit whatever program I am using and wait about 30 secs and problem clears. Only to heppen again, when utilizing program again. Also, does not matter what I am doing (youtube, itunes, WoW, D3, StarCraft)......here are my specs and I too submitted feedback.

Mid 2011 27" iMac

Processor 3.1 GHz Intel Core i5

Memory 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 (Apple installed, never been upgraded)

Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6970M 1024 MB

Software OS X 10.8.2 (12C54)

+1

Apple, FIX THIS!

Also used the feedback form under http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

I've had enough of this now.

If I can find my Lion OSX disc am I able to reinstall it and remove this current piece of cr*p off my machine? Sorry that my language is deteriorating, but I am massively fed up with this now. It's completely unacceptable.