Microphone delay when recording in Windows 7

Anonymous
2009-10-28T14:53:55+00:00

Since upgrading from Vista to Win7, my microphone input has a delay of 500ms to 1s when recording.  This is most notable in apps like Ventrilo.  Anyone else having this problem?

Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit

HTOmega Claro+ sound card

E6600 Intel CPU

6 gigs of RAM

Nvidia GTX 280 video card

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Music, photos, and video

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Anonymous
2010-03-25T22:37:38+00:00

Hi Everyone,

Please see my earlier replies. No functionality has been removed in Windows 7. If you have an audio driver and codec that exposes the hardware loopback, it will still be present on the Levels tab of the Speakers device. However, not all drivers expose this. If you had this option on XP and load the same audio driver, it should be exposed on Windows 7. Same with the stereo mixer. If the audio driver exposes it, it will be available. It is hidden by default on Vista/Windows 7. But on the Recording tab if you right click in the open area and select show disabled devices, you can enable it. If a Stereo Mix device is not shown, then the audio driver is not exposing one. If you had this option on XP, then please try installing the same driver version that was previously installed.

Thanks,

Chris

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-08-02T13:02:40+00:00

    This didn't work for me.

    I have an Asus Xonar Essence ST soundcard.

    Originally I thought the lag was caused by my onboard sound card, but even with this 160€ sound card the lag persists.

    I don't have any other volume controllers in my playback devices except their own volume.

    This is very disturbing, my sound card has a nice karaoke feature I can't use because I have to sing 1-2 sec before the actual music is playing.

    Seriously microsoft, this OS is now over a year old and it still doesn't work, seriously this is unacceptable.

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-07-24T12:09:36+00:00

    triky2k's fix worked for me. Thank you very much

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-07-09T06:19:53+00:00

    Hey this worked like a charm Sydraps!  Seriously thank you for saving my sanity.

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-07-08T13:49:31+00:00

    I don't know about the usb related part. I've got this problem and I use nothing from a usb. I've got speakers plugged into the speaker jack and an aux cable running from my guitar pedal into the line-in jack. And I've still got the problem. I feel as if maybe in your case your USB overrides the conversion process that I've been hearing about?

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