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

2010-02-22T04:24:57+00:00

I have an HP NC6600 Laptop with the same latency problems. Here's my file:

System Information

Time of this report: 2/21/2010, 23:17:24

       Machine name: NC6400-SBEYER1

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

           Language: English (Regional Setting: English)

System Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard

       System Model: HP Compaq nc6400 (RM100AW#ABA)

               BIOS: KBC Version 56.34

          Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T5600 @ 1.83GHz (2 CPUs), ~1.8GHz

             Memory: 1024MB RAM

Available OS Memory: 1016MB RAM

          Page File: 961MB used, 1077MB 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 (SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD Audio)

Default Sound Playback: Yes

Default Voice Playback: Yes

            Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1981&SUBSYS_103C30AD&REV_1002

        Manufacturer ID: 1

             Product ID: 100

                   Type: WDM

            Driver Name: ADIHdAud.sys

         Driver Version: 6.10.0001.5240 (English)

      Driver Attributes: Final Retail

            WHQL Logo'd: Yes

          Date and Size: 4/24/2008 13:26:28, 309248 bytes

            Other Files:

        Driver Provider: AnalogDevices

         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 (SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD Audio)

Default Sound Capture: Yes

Default Voice Capture: Yes

            Driver Name: ADIHdAud.sys

         Driver Version: 6.10.0001.5240 (English)

      Driver Attributes: Final Retail

          Date and Size: 4/24/2008 13:26:28, 309248 bytes

              Cap Flags: 0x1

           Format Flags: 0xFFFFF

            Description: Line In (SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD Audio)

Default Sound Capture: No

Default Voice Capture: No

            Driver Name: ADIHdAud.sys

         Driver Version: 6.10.0001.5240 (English)

      Driver Attributes: Final Retail

          Date and Size: 4/24/2008 13:26:28, 309248 bytes

              Cap Flags: 0x1

           Format Flags: 0xFFFFF
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Anonymous

2010-02-22T11:46:40+00:00

Hi XM

Well, I'm not sure that the separate feature does the trick, so if you can't find it probably it's not important. Just check if the line in and the mic in appears in the console mixer. The important thing is if you can adjust the playing and recording levels from the creative console, not from the w7 audio manager, and most important uncheck the "listen to this device" in w7 audio manager.
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Anonymous

2010-02-23T14:04:35+00:00

Hi Chris, I Need you to find a way to fix this.

Here's my Info........

System Information

Time of this report: 2/23/2010, 07:28:00

       Machine name: MARIO-PC

   Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_rtm.090713-1255)

           Language: English (Regional Setting: English)

System Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer INC.

       System Model: 1001P

               BIOS: BIOS Date: 01/04/10 15:54:41 Ver: 08.00.12

          Processor: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N450   @ 1.66GHz (2 CPUs), ~1.7GHz

             Memory: 1024MB RAM

Available OS Memory: 1014MB RAM

          Page File: 725MB used, 1313MB 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

DxDiag Notes

      Display Tab 1: No problems found.

        Sound Tab 1: No problems found.

          Input Tab: No problems found.

Sound Devices

            Description: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)

Default Sound Playback: Yes

Default Voice Playback: Yes

            Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0269&SUBSYS_104383CE&REV_1000

        Manufacturer ID: 1

             Product ID: 100

                   Type: WDM

            Driver Name: RTKVHDA.sys

         Driver Version: 6.00.0001.5948 (English)

      Driver Attributes: Final Retail

            WHQL Logo'd: Yes

          Date and Size: 9/29/2009 04:16:02, 2776672 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: RTKVHDA.sys

         Driver Version: 6.00.0001.5948 (English)

      Driver Attributes: Final Retail

          Date and Size: 9/29/2009 04:16:02, 2776672 bytes

              Cap Flags: 0x1

           Format Flags: 0xFFFFF
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Anonymous

2010-02-24T02:05:15+00:00

That would be all well and good, but not just Dell users are affected. I have an HP NC6400 experiencing the same problem... My integrated audio device (SoundMAX) does not come with an audio manager. ADI does not create drivers for the device, but relies on the PC manufactures to do it. I already have the most updated drivers for it for Win7. I MUST rely on Win7's integrated audio manager.
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