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
    2010-01-15T14:17:27+00:00

    I tried installing Widows XP the other day. As soon as  restarted my PC the screenwent black so now I'm stuck with Windows 7. Now I've had to invest in a separate digtal multi track recorder to do all my audio work. I'll just have to work back and forth with the audio/vst stuff to get a finished result. As a singer/songwriter who has previously recorded two albums on home computers, this situation is ridiculous. I am now in the situation of re-installing ALL my software AGAIN.

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-01-18T20:55:45+00:00

    Hey everyone, I've been recording with an older Dell computer for a couple of years now. I upgraded to Windows 7 and now when I try recording anything through the line in jack (microphone, electronic drum set, gutiar, etc.) there is a horrible lag that makes it IMPOSSIBLE TO RECORD!!!

    I've looked around for answers and the only response I've seen is MS saying it's a driver problem, I've reinstalled the drivers like they say but it doesn't work. Has anyone found a way to fix this lag? If not then I sure hope Microsoft fixes this problem ASAP with a patch for Windows 7

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-01-19T18:12:33+00:00

    I'm experiencing the same thing. My system is Core 2 Quad Q6600 with 4GB of RAM. I'm running a clean install of Win7 Ultimate x64 with the latest Realtek HD drivers (12/30/2009). This latency problem did not exist in Vista on this system, but makes the system impossible to use for doing voiceovers in video editing software. The lag is too distracting.

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-01-19T19:28:09+00:00

    hello microsoft???????????????????? are you there?

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