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The delay/lag is killer. Netflix, Prime, out of sync lip movement with audio.
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You can install Linux on exactly the same hardware and use the same Bluetooth headphones or earbuds and it completely fixes the delay/lag of up to 500ms. This is not a device or hardware issue.
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Please note this is not a tech support post. It is a discussion about the lack of progress in fixing this issue.
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In a forum post on this from 2016, the post has 1042 votes by people with the same issue: “I have the same question (1042)”. It carried on until sometime in 2020 before it was locked. The issue itself was not fixed & remains for many in Windows 10 & 11.
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What do you all think about the fact this issue still hasn’t been fixed?
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I want to say that I am a massive fan of Windows. 7 was a masterpiece, 10 was a revolution. It is the great equaliser. Can everyone afford a Mac or run Linux? No. But anyone can run Windows. The issue is, it’s losing some of that efficient powerful function it had during 7.
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Bluetooth is so infamously broken on Windows that gaming wireless headphone makers for PC sell headphones with their own USB transmitters and proprietary stuff to avoid the lag. They use keywords “eliminate delays” “eliminates lag”. People are using TWS buds with android gaming mode also to get around Windows lag in all scenarios, it’s only meant for lag with gaming. On windows it must be used just to watch a film with no audio delay. Windows does this so badly an entire industry is running around it. You won’t get lag or delay like this on iOS, you won’t get lag like this on Linux, you won’t get lag like this on Mac, you won’t even get lag as bad as this on cheap Android phones - the lag android users complain about is lower than Win11 lag. Maybe 100-150 ms.
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I spent all day Sunday trying lots of fixes suggested online:
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A small amount of quietly raved about doing these, and after i did all that, what did it achieve? Little. Audio still out of sync with lips on TV and Movie shows on my laptop.
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And it’s not just delayed audio. Windows lags so badly with Bluetooth devices that people complain Bluetooth mice stutter around the screen and take almost a second to catch up sometimes.
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What do you all think about the fact this issue still hasn’t been fixed?
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Yes. MS is launching AI buttons for the keyboard. Meanwhile Bluetooth still doesn’t work without lag. Nothing about windows has been thought through. Linux is coming up to being directly compatible with games too, because of Steam and Proton. People are going to be leaving Windows within a decade
Unbelievable... I am watching a youtube video on Windows 11, connected Bluetooth audio, and the audio is out of sync behind making the video pretty much unwatchable. I reboot my PC into Linux and watch the same youtube video connected to Bluetooth audio without issue. Linux to the rescue once again. Unbelievable that Microsoft has never fixed this problem... well yea... I do believe it actually.
macbook has no issues with bluetooth ear phones.
any device apart from windows notebooks..
that's laughable.
looks like microsoft isn't interested in windows anymore.
I'm using Linux on a daily basis. But I also have Windows 11 Pro 22H2 (22621.2715). I just didn't expect that a paid OS can't handle something as basic as sound over BT. I can confirm that on Linux (openSUSE Tumbleweed) I have no problems with BT audio, everything works as expected. So, I have a rhetorical question: is it worth buying something that doesn't work when there is something free and working? It's a real shame.
And a question to Microsoft support: what should I do to make the BT sound work? I think you'll agree that this is an important functionality (since I have no other options but a BT sound device).
I found this little option that might be involved. If you don't show it, maybe it is the driver you are using. I will need to do more research.
The only place I see this option is on the properties for the headset in the Devices and Printers section. You can get to it uising the Bluetooth & Devices > Devices and the bottom of the page, More devices and printer settings.
I am not sure if it has to be on or off in your image. But for me turning it off helped.
