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

    Hi,

    Here are the steps to check if there is a hardware loopback from the mic/line in to the speakers.

    Open the audio control panel.

    Select the Speakers, then click properties.

    Click the Levels tab

    If you don't see a volume control for Microphone or Line In, then there isn't a hardware loopback. You can try contacting your OEM to see if this can be enabled in another way.

    Thanks,

    Chris [MSFT]

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-02-12T21:33:49+00:00

    I don't know if you guys can still help me with this or not but I appreciate it either way.

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-02-14T04:01:40+00:00

    Ya I agree. What a show off... n tis w/7 thingy is so buggy.. sumtyms I wonder wat made tem in a hurry to release the product. cud hv kept in beta 4 sum more tym..

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-02-14T21:09:21+00:00

    hey guys,

    isnt this ____ rediculous?!

    The only way i could find to fix this problem (and like so many other solutions it probably wont work with usb mics)

    was on a dell website, turns out alot of computers are shipped out with something called imput monitoring turned off in the registry by default.

    Leave the dreaded "listen to this device" box unchecked in the recording device properties tab! that is where the lag is coming from, its not your drivers or your hardware its the OS, I guess Microsoft had more of an auxillary mp3 player imput than anything in mind with this feature, as the lag would not be a problem in that case.

    Here is a link to the solution i found,

    http://en.community.dell.com/forums/p/18112824/18235810.aspx#18235810

    i find alot of people are having trouble with realtek harware, mine was sigmatel so i cant guaruntee this will work for everyone but hey,

    this is the ONLY thing i found that even half worked so.....

    Hopefully in the future Macs go down in price and microsoft just gets the boot from the computing industry, i mean, the have x-box to keep them afloat now lol.

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