Ableton Forum

I have been using live 6.01 for two days now just figuring out the quirks and such in the program. So far, my biggest challenge is getting playback to work. During playback, sometimes the audio is saved and is very choppy, and other times it sounds perfect. I can mess with the settings in the audio tab such as input and output buffer to get it to work perfect again, but after it works once the glitches and choppiness return. I am running windows vista on a dell inspiron 1520 notebook with enough ram and gb. Does anyone have any topics I can look at? I am really lost and searching is leading me to dead ends, this is my last resort,

Thanks,
Jason