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

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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
    2010-02-10T15:32:37+00:00

    Hey I tried everything you guys said to do and I'm still having the delay output going through my speakers. If anyone figured out a solution to this problem I would appreciate a response. Come to thing of it though, I never could find the separate input jacks option.

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-02-09T19:13:35+00:00

    Hi jacobCWC ,

    Do you have speakers currently plugged in? From the dxdiag log it looks like you don't. If you open the audio control panel, does it show the speakers as not plugged in?

    If you are trying to route the input from the Microphone through the HDMI out to your TV using the new "Listen to" feature, then there is going to be the delay. There is no way around that.

    It is a function of the audio hardware/driver to have audio input mixed to the output on the same device. See my post above about checking the Levels tab on the properties of the Speaker device to see if your hardware supports that feature.

    Thanks,

    Chris [MST]

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-02-09T17:34:13+00:00

    Jacob, I'm not quite sure about that because I didn't knew about that Q110 (beautiful btw), but what I understand is that you're using the NVIDIA HDMI as sound output, not the Realtek HD, so the only way you can hear the mic connected to the Realtek HD is enabling the "listen to this device" box in W7 audio manager, that's why you keep getting that lag. So you should change the sound output to the Realtek HD or you won't get rid of the lag.

    Tell me if I'm right, you're using the TV speakers, isn't it?. Well, I'm afraid you will have to change the playback device, through the W7 audio manager, to Speakers Realtek High Def Audio as default, then go to the Recording tab and change the settings of your mic for using the sound card and uncheck the "listen to this device" box. And then connect the audio out of the sound card to the audio in of the TV. What I can't tell is if you can configure the TV to see what's coming in through HDMI and hear the audio in at the same time.

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-02-09T14:54:16+00:00

    Hi Chris,

    My dxdiag results:

    System Information

    Time of this report: 2/9/2010, 22:40:58

           Machine name: LIVINGROOM

       Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_rtm.090713-1255)

               Language: English (Regional Setting: English)

    System Manufacturer: LENOVO

           System Model: IdeaCentre Q110 10032

                   BIOS: Default System BIOS

              Processor: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU  230   @ 1.60GHz (2 CPUs), ~1.6GHz

                 Memory: 2048MB RAM

    Available OS Memory: 1792MB RAM

              Page File: 1153MB used, 2428MB available

            Windows Dir: C:\Windows

        DirectX Version: DirectX 11

    DX Setup Parameters: Not found

       User DPI Setting: 144 DPI (150 percent)

     System DPI Setting: 120 DPI (125 percent)

        DWM DPI Scaling: Enabled

         DxDiag Version: 6.01.7600.16385 64bit Unicode

    Sound Devices

                Description: NVIDIA HDMI Out (NVIDIA High Definition Audio)

     Default Sound Playback: Yes

     Default Voice Playback: Yes

                Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10DE&DEV_0007&SUBSYS_10DE0101&REV_1001

            Manufacturer ID: 1

                 Product ID: 100

                       Type: WDM

                Driver Name: nvhda64v.sys

             Driver Version: 1.00.0000.0059 (English)

          Driver Attributes: Final Retail

                WHQL Logo'd: n/a

              Date and Size: 8/21/2009 20:24:04, 84512 bytes

                Other Files:

            Driver Provider: NVIDIA Corporation

             HW Accel Level: Basic

                  Cap Flags: 0x0

        Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0

    Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 0, 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: Microphone (Realtek High Definition Audio)

      Default Sound Capture: Yes

      Default Voice Capture: Yes

                Driver Name: RTKVHD64.sys

             Driver Version: 6.00.0001.6013 (English)

          Driver Attributes: Final Retail

              Date and Size: 12/25/2009 18:41:34, 2229664 bytes

                  Cap Flags: 0x0

               Format Flags: 0x0

                Description: Stereo Mix (Realtek High Definition Audio)

      Default Sound Capture: No

      Default Voice Capture: No

                Driver Name: RTKVHD64.sys

             Driver Version: 6.00.0001.6013 (English)

          Driver Attributes: Final Retail

              Date and Size: 12/25/2009 18:41:34, 2229664 bytes

                  Cap Flags: 0x0

               Format Flags: 0x0

    Please help. I've updated drivers, tried what tricky2k said but my audio manager does have the 'separate...' option presumably because of my hardware.

    Thank you in advance.

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