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
    2010-01-06T15:00:52+00:00

    well i started another thread and they deleleted it. So they see this issue. They just refuse to addrress it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-01-08T00:09:10+00:00

    this is not the solution, i've installed and uninstalled multiple sound cards and drivers, the result is the same... HUGE latency with an input device, this is insane that there is no fix or that this even exists. I'm extremely disappointed in Microsoft. Windows XP was the last good thing that came out of this company, on top of which has the audacity to charge for an upgrade for virtual XP.  Please come out with a fix soon, or microsoft will have lost one more PC guy to a Mac. Yea windows 7 works great with everything except for what i really want it for. Way to go. I may return my PC and get a Mac. would also like to add, its not just the mic input, its line in as well..

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-01-08T00:12:38+00:00

    oh dip how do i uppropose.. its not an answer lol....

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-01-08T04:28:31+00:00

    Got 2 (!) units of Lenovo Q110 running Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit to go with my HD TVs (HDMI) for some family leisure use (karaoke).  Was happily connecting it up with brand new microphones.  Then discovered that the mic output has a delay and was totally weird when trying to do some karaoke.  These two one-month-old units are taking pride of place prominently at home but now seldom used because of that.

    Like others here and elsewhere, it is incomprehensible to find that a solution is non-existent.  I have been a computer user for over 20 years and had seen Microsoft evolve from DOS 2.1 until today, done a fair bit of programming work involving DOS and Windows (remember the good old dBase, Foxbase, Borland C, then the C-programming on SCO-Unix on Intel box, Microsoft C++ developing interfaces including DLL routines, winsock for equipment interfaces etc.) but never expected that a brand new system with a brand new OS not work out of the box.

    Come on, Microsoft.  Do what is important to you - find out what is wrong with your software and give us the corrected bit. I have 3 MAC laptops and I won't bore you with the comparisons between OSX and Windows.  I am planning to replace all my old Windows XP desktops with MAC, but it is not related to this.  It is just that with the mockery of Vista (unfortunately I have a Fujitsu laptop running that which incidentally is the cause of my getting the 3 MAC laptops), I was filled with confidence that Windows 7 should be an improvement over XP with none of the nonsense we find in Vista.

    Please help.

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