Microphone delay when recording in Windows 7

Anonymous

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

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Anonymous

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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Anonymous

2010-04-12T23:01:07+00:00

Mic cant capture sound

System Information

Time of this report: 4/12/2010, 18:54:56

       Machine name: DAN-PC

   Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_gdr.091207-1941)

           Language: English (Regional Setting: English)

System Manufacturer: GATEWA

       System Model: GM5258H

               BIOS: Default System BIOS

          Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU          6300 @ 1.86GHz (2 CPUs), ~1.9GHz

             Memory: 2048MB RAM

Available OS Memory: 2030MB RAM

          Page File: 1944MB used, 2115MB available

        Windows Dir: C:\Windows

    DirectX Version: DirectX 11

DX Setup Parameters: Not found

   User DPI Setting: Using System DPI

System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)

    DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled

     DxDiag Version: 6.01.7600.16385 32bit Unicode

Sound Devices

            Description: Speakers (High Definition Audio Device)

Default Sound Playback: Yes

Default Voice Playback: Yes

            Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_8384&DEV_7626&SUBSYS_107B6049&REV_1002

        Manufacturer ID: 1

             Product ID: 65535

                   Type: WDM

            Driver Name: HdAudio.sys

         Driver Version: 6.01.7600.16385 (English)

      Driver Attributes: Final Retail

            WHQL Logo'd: Yes

          Date and Size: 7/13/2009 19:51:47, 304128 bytes

            Other Files:

        Driver Provider: Microsoft

         HW Accel Level: Basic

              Cap Flags: 0xF1F

    Min/Max Sample Rate: 100, 200000

Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 1, 0

Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0

              HW Memory: 0

       Voice Management: No

EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No

   I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No

Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No

            Description: Digital Audio (S/PDIF) (High Definition Audio Device)

Default Sound Playback: No

Default Voice Playback: No

            Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_8384&DEV_7626&SUBSYS_107B6049&REV_1002

        Manufacturer ID: 1

             Product ID: 65535

                   Type: WDM

            Driver Name: HdAudio.sys

         Driver Version: 6.01.7600.16385 (English)

      Driver Attributes: Final Retail

            WHQL Logo'd: Yes

          Date and Size: 7/13/2009 19:51:47, 304128 bytes

            Other Files:

        Driver Provider: Microsoft

         HW Accel Level: Basic

              Cap Flags: 0xF1F

    Min/Max Sample Rate: 100, 200000

Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 1, 0

Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0

              HW Memory: 0

       Voice Management: No

EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No

   I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No

Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No

Sound Capture Devices

            Description: Digital Audio (S/PDIF) (High Definition Audio Device)

Default Sound Capture: Yes

Default Voice Capture: Yes

            Driver Name: HdAudio.sys

         Driver Version: 6.01.7600.16385 (English)

      Driver Attributes: Final Retail

          Date and Size: 7/13/2009 19:51:47, 304128 bytes

              Cap Flags: 0x1

           Format Flags: 0xFFFFF
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Anonymous

2010-04-10T01:07:22+00:00

I was fighting with this on my Windows 7 Dell and Audacity. I found that under Manage sound devices->Double click on Speakers.-->tab Levels->click on the speaker icon next to the Microphone level. Drastic improvement.
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Anonymous

2010-04-05T23:33:09+00:00

Hi Chris

I have the Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio as well... All the possible fixes above don't seem to be working. Any help will be great!
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Anonymous

2010-04-05T23:27:47+00:00

Hi XM,

It appears this specific Creative X-Fi Xtreme Audio card does not support a hardware loopback. We're checking if it is a driver issue and will reply when we know more.

Thanks,

Chris
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