Microphone delay when recording in Windows 7

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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

2010-01-31T05:53:21+00:00

Lead, please, read my last message in this topic:

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7music/thread/603fcccc-4a98-412b-81a2-e3df9d141f21
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Anonymous

2010-02-03T10:06:29+00:00

I "fixed" my problem by re-installing XP. Everything is good now, except that Windows7 is a waste. Amazing how they keep getting these basic things wrong. Why do they keep piling on useless ____ gimmicks that no one gives a ____ about? I don't want my audio routed through some useless 3D effects engine you stupid douchebags, just record the damned line-in signal and get your marketing ____ out of my face. I hope to god Microsoft goes bankrupt, because we don't need them anymore. I'm back in XP, and there's actually nothing from Vista or Win7 that I really miss. That's tragic - ten years and they haven't done anything significant, except try to copy Apple's UI look.
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Anonymous

2010-02-04T16:10:35+00:00

Hi,

For those of you that are having this issue, please run dxdiag, save the log and post a link to it. Please also include whether it is specific to a recording application, or if it happens with any.

There will be a delay with the new "listen to this device" feature and is best if used with portable music player type devices. It will work with a microphone, but there will be the delay. Note however that if you want to record through a mic or another device, you do not need this enabled.

Thanks,

Chris [MSFT]
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Anonymous

2010-02-04T16:25:11+00:00

Finally you guys are looking into this issue, really appreciate it.

We understand that we can still record through a microphone without having the "listen to this device" feature turned on. However, musicians requires an instant playback to hear ourselves both raw and through the headset. In other words, we need this to be enabled and playing back instantly whilst recording.

Nevertheless, here's my log:

System Information

Time of this report: 2/5/2010, 00:16:47

Machine name: GUOWEI-PC

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

Language: English (Regional Setting: English)

System Manufacturer: MSI

System Model: MS-7586

BIOS: Default System BIOS

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.7GHz

Memory: 4096MB RAM

Available OS Memory: 4088MB RAM

Page File: 1571MB used, 6600MB available

Windows Dir: C:\Windows

DirectX Version: DirectX 11

DX Setup Parameters: Not found

User DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)

System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)

DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled

DxDiag Version: 6.01.7600.16385 64bit Unicode

Sound Devices

Description: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)

Default Sound Playback: Yes

Default Voice Playback: Yes

Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0889&SUBSYS_14627586&REV_1000

Manufacturer ID: 1

Product ID: 100

Type: WDM

Driver Name: RTKVHD64.sys

Driver Version: 6.00.0001.5898 (English)

Driver Attributes: Final Retail

WHQL Logo'd: Yes

Date and Size: 7/20/2009 18:52:38, 1831968 bytes

Other Files:

Driver Provider: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.

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: Realtek Digital Output (Realtek High Definition Audio)

Default Sound Playback: No

Default Voice Playback: No

Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0889&SUBSYS_14627586&REV_1000

Manufacturer ID: 1

Product ID: 100

Type: WDM

Driver Name: RTKVHD64.sys

Driver Version: 6.00.0001.5898 (English)

Driver Attributes: Final Retail

WHQL Logo'd: Yes

Date and Size: 7/20/2009 18:52:38, 1831968 bytes

Other Files:

Driver Provider: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.

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: Microphone (Realtek High Definition Audio)

Default Sound Capture: Yes

Default Voice Capture: Yes

Driver Name: RTKVHD64.sys

Driver Version: 6.00.0001.5898 (English)

Driver Attributes: Final Retail

Date and Size: 7/20/2009 18:52:38, 1831968 bytes

Cap Flags: 0x1

Format Flags: 0xFFFFF
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