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
    2011-02-15T20:40:03+00:00

    Yeah romzap,

    Don't we all love being MS W7 beta testers?  Problems just get the shoulder shrug and hands up from MS.

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-02-18T15:46:25+00:00
    There is is everyone I found this tutorial  on how to fix the Mic Delay in Windows 7. This is not my tutorial, all credit goes to the op<br><br><br> <br><br><br>http://www.bench3.com/2010/02/fix-live-audio-delay-latency-mis-match.html<br><br><br> <br><br><br>It does work have done on 2 computers already. Just follow instructions. :)

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-02-18T23:16:29+00:00

    Ok sooooooo.........what if you don't have Realtek audio.  Is it the same for all system configurations and audio set ups for Windows 7, specifically ATI Mobile Radeon 4650, IDT Codec, and Soundblaster X-Fi MB???  I am ready to partition the hard drive and go XP in it but want one last attempt at some sort of good answer.

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-02-18T23:34:21+00:00

    Ok sooooooo.........what if you don't have Realtek audio.  Is it the same for all system configurations and audio set ups for Windows 7, specifically ATI Mobile Radeon 4650, IDT Codec, and Soundblaster X-Fi MB???  I am ready to partition the hard drive and go XP in it but want one last attempt at some sort of good answer.

    Well, with IDT there is no solution sadly. I know this for a fact. Just downgrade to XP, it is the only solution unless IDT release new drivers. With Realtek however, there is a solution. What you could do aswell is downgrade to Vista, because I have written a long thorough explanation of how to do it on Vista. Let me know if you want it.

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