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
    2010-08-11T13:50:21+00:00

    We established a lot of facts actually, for instance, that we are not mind readers nor fortune tellers, we can't hack into your computer to know which sound card you have, that will be a pretty good start to solve the problem.

    198 messages in this thread and we still have to explain that, without enough info, we can't help.

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-08-11T00:08:18+00:00

    Ok, so now that we've established the fact that "Listen to device" is not for real-time microphone output then what is?

    How can I get real-time output without delay? I've used headphones with my mic to help with my singing classes and never had problems with delay on XP.

    I do not have a mic level under the speakers tab. This is driving me insane. :(

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-08-09T10:08:34+00:00

    I don't understand exactly how this forum works, but since this is one working answer, I'm going to post information for those of us using VIA as a response to this question.

    Via recently released a new audio driver (Aug. 4th, 2010) that completely eliminates this issue. (1) Go to www.via.com.tw and find the driver for whichever sound card you're inflicted with, and install the driver. (2) Go to Sound>Speaker instead of saying HD Audio, the speakers now say VIA HD Audio, go to Properties>Levels and unmute the input you wish to use. (3) Make sure you're not listening to the device.

    Now to try and make everything play nice with my Creative card... almost pissed my pants laughing at that concept. Can't even set up the installer program right...

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-08-02T20:37:56+00:00

    So naike, you're saying that a 160€ sound card, with beta drivers after more than one year of W7 out in the market, has not a simple sound manager (well, i'm guessing here, you don't say) where you can adjust the mic and line in volumes, and you're blaming MS? Sorry, but what I read there it's that Asus is enjoying your money a lot while doing nothing to fix the latency issue. Again, not MS fault.

    Did you try installing old but reliable drivers for Vista or XP in compatibility mode? 3 days ago I've installed W7 Home Premium in an old Athlon XP 2800, mobo Asus A7V600X, integrated sound card Asus AC97, latest drivers available from early 2007, and it's working flawless, no latency or delay issues.

    So, uninstall the sound card, remove the drivers, install fresh ones (or old ones in compatibility mode) from Asus site, disable the automatic updates just in case W7 decides to install different drivers (that happens), adjust the volumes in the player tab for the mic and line in, uncheck the "listen to this device" in the recording tab for mic and line in and, very important, do not try to record the mic or line in at the same time as the stereo mix, or you'll get delay again.

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