Windows 11- audio long delay before starting

Hello, of course the problem was solved lonnng ago. I have nothing to do with Microsoft, just letting you know that the audio delay is a matter of updating Windows 11 versions properly and a matter of updating same computer trademark as well.

If you need help, let me know, we can do it through AnyDesk.

This problem IS NOT resolved. I bought an HP i7 all-in-one PC from Costco and had this issue. After troubleshooting everything possible on the web and with HP tech support for three hours, they determined that it was a faulty headphone jack. So I exchanged it for the exact same machine and the new one has the same problem. This time, I tested videos in between Windows 11 updates, and just before the third to last update, it started delaying the audio again. So, it's a Windows problem. This is why I use Apple for everything and my PC and Android devices are for testing purposes only for my business. Windows and Android are garbage. Always have been. I walked away seven years ago and walked away from most stupid problems like this when I did. What a nightmare to have to come back to this. It's worth the extra money to buy Apple devices. Their standards are so much higher than this.

Not sure this will help people much but I have recently found that when I do not use audio for a while it seems to hibernate and won't restart automatically on my PC. This affects spotify; windows media player, youtube videos, etc (though not Xbox One console games). My work around is to click on the speaker symbol in the lower right corner of my screen and quickly swipe the volume right to 100% and then left back to zero and then to 12%. Sometimes need to do this twcie and it always works. This usually fixes it for the day. I have been doing this for some time now and think it may be related to the audio drivers for Logitech which although identified as Realtek Audio in Device Manager show the provider as Microsoft 10.0.19041 (12 June 2019) conflicting with my NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti audio drivers. I recently installed Logitech Z506 5.1. speakers (which were a right pain to set up and then get sound out on all 5 speakers) and have Windows 10 and 11 installed on separate internal drives. I rarely turn my Omen tower PC off, and play music on Spotify or Windows Media player as I go to sleep, so they and the PC are usually in standby mode overnight (this may change now due to the rapid escalation in everyone's domestic electricity costs). When powering off the PC I notice that the audio makes a loud audio 'burp' (in lieu of the technical term for this) during the shutting down and restarting process.

You should check the chain on this problem. I was lucky to have had my computer replaced and the new computer does not have the delay issue. It is my understanding that the latest updates has solved the problem. Make sure you have run all updates.

Hope this helps.

Norma

Hi all,

After my feedback above, I again started having problems. I eventually uninstalled the Realtek Audio driver, but kept the Waves MaxxAudio Pro. This seems to have worked - well I will see for how long this works :-)

So.... for you Window's boffins out there (or you Windows software programmers), my take on it is that there is some clashes within the audio drivers that is causing the problem and this is maybe a place to look. I hope that soon there will be a Windows update that sorts this out.

Again, I hope this feedback is helping :-)