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

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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
    2010-02-11T02:26:15+00:00

    I am having the same problem:latency while recording.

    Could you please give me a solution to this problem as well?

    System Information

    Time of this report: 2/10/2010, 21:20:32

    Machine name: HWS-THINK

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

    Language: English (Regional Setting: English)

    System Manufacturer: LENOVO

    System Model: 2764CTO

    BIOS: Ver 1.00PARTTBL(

    Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     P8800  @ 2.66GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.7GHz

    Memory: 3072MB RAM

    Available OS Memory: 2520MB RAM

    Page File: 1647MB used, 3390MB 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 (Conexant 20561 SmartAudio HD)

    Default Sound Playback: Yes

    Default Voice Playback: Yes

    Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_14F1&DEV_5051&SUBSYS_17AA211C&REV_1000

    Manufacturer ID: 1

    Product ID: 100

    Type: WDM

    Driver Name: CHDRT32.sys

    Driver Version: 4.92.0010.0000 (English)

    Driver Attributes: Final Retail

    WHQL Logo'd: Yes

    Date and Size: 7/22/2009 00:56:22, 459264 bytes

    Other Files:

    Driver Provider: Conexant

    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: SPDIF Interface (Conexant 20561 SmartAudio HD)

    Default Sound Playback: No

    Default Voice Playback: No

    Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_14F1&DEV_5051&SUBSYS_17AA211C&REV_1000

    Manufacturer ID: 1

    Product ID: 100

    Type: WDM

    Driver Name: CHDRT32.sys

    Driver Version: 4.92.0010.0000 (English)

    Driver Attributes: Final Retail

    WHQL Logo'd: Yes

    Date and Size: 7/22/2009 00:56:22, 459264 bytes

    Other Files:

    Driver Provider: Conexant

    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: External Microphone (Conexant 20561 SmartAudio HD)

    Default Sound Capture: Yes

    Default Voice Capture: Yes

    Driver Name: CHDRT32.sys

    Driver Version: 4.92.0010.0000 (English)

    Driver Attributes: Final Retail

    Date and Size: 7/22/2009 00:56:22, 459264 bytes

    Cap Flags: 0x1

    Format Flags: 0xFFFFF

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-02-11T02:25:47+00:00

    I am having the same problem:latency while recording.

    Could you please give me a solution to this problem as well?

    System Information

    Time of this report: 2/10/2010, 21:20:32

    Machine name: HWS-THINK

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

    Language: English (Regional Setting: English)

    System Manufacturer: LENOVO

    System Model: 2764CTO

    BIOS: Ver 1.00PARTTBL(

    Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     P8800  @ 2.66GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.7GHz

    Memory: 3072MB RAM

    Available OS Memory: 2520MB RAM

    Page File: 1647MB used, 3390MB 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 (Conexant 20561 SmartAudio HD)

    Default Sound Playback: Yes

    Default Voice Playback: Yes

    Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_14F1&DEV_5051&SUBSYS_17AA211C&REV_1000

    Manufacturer ID: 1

    Product ID: 100

    Type: WDM

    Driver Name: CHDRT32.sys

    Driver Version: 4.92.0010.0000 (English)

    Driver Attributes: Final Retail

    WHQL Logo'd: Yes

    Date and Size: 7/22/2009 00:56:22, 459264 bytes

    Other Files:

    Driver Provider: Conexant

    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: SPDIF Interface (Conexant 20561 SmartAudio HD)

    Default Sound Playback: No

    Default Voice Playback: No

    Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_14F1&DEV_5051&SUBSYS_17AA211C&REV_1000

    Manufacturer ID: 1

    Product ID: 100

    Type: WDM

    Driver Name: CHDRT32.sys

    Driver Version: 4.92.0010.0000 (English)

    Driver Attributes: Final Retail

    WHQL Logo'd: Yes

    Date and Size: 7/22/2009 00:56:22, 459264 bytes

    Other Files:

    Driver Provider: Conexant

    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: External Microphone (Conexant 20561 SmartAudio HD)

    Default Sound Capture: Yes

    Default Voice Capture: Yes

    Driver Name: CHDRT32.sys

    Driver Version: 4.92.0010.0000 (English)

    Driver Attributes: Final Retail

    Date and Size: 7/22/2009 00:56:22, 459264 bytes

    Cap Flags: 0x1

    Format Flags: 0xFFFFF

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-02-10T19:56:36+00:00

    Hi Dickcheney

    It would be nice if you give more details, for instance, it's the line in or the mic? Realtek integrated sound card? What did you tried exactly, you followed all 6 steps precisely? Did you find the Realtek audio manager? I don't know, with more information probably we could help.

    Cheers

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