YanKleber
Retired
This is a tip for the ones that may be experiencing playing latency problems with Windows 7.
Since some time ago I was suffering with latency problems in Windows 7, but not recording latency: PLAYING latency. It is kind of a known issue on post-XP versions where drivers that consume too much CPU resources when pulling along the system threads causes the sound driver to hickup. As a result a simple music enjoying with an MP3 player becomes an irritating experience stuffed with cracks and pops. One of these drivers is the tcpip.sys and others tied to network services.
After some research I have found that there is tons of people suffering with this out there but seems that there is not a definitive answer or solution for this problem, and ones suggest to disable such drivers. Well, I don't know about others but I cannot disable my network drivers and get disconnected every time I want to listen to some tunes on my PC (actually it is where I listen to music 100% of time nowadays, mainly when I am working and therefore when I need my network up). Anyway, this suggestion sounds like a very dirty 'solution' for me.
In an attempt to resolve this I bought more RAM for my computer as it was really low (onyly 4GB). After to raise it to 8GB the problem remains, although the extra memory helped the computer on other areas. Another thing I did and that helped some was to replace the original driver of my sound card by ASIO. In my case, since I use Winamp, I downloaded its ASIO plugin. It really helped to REDUCE the cracks and pops but they didn't gop away for good.
Anyway, among my researches I have found somewhere that some video cards may steal CPU resources and interefere with a good music playing and it was adviced to uninstall any special tool that comes with such cards. Although I don't have any of these tools it lighted up something in my head and I remembered that my W7 still was with its default configuration that makes it shows all bells and whistles in terms of visual effects.
Then I stroke flag+pause-break and clicked on 'Advanced System Settings' and then Advanced tab. The clicked onto the 'settings' button at the 'Performance' section. My first attempt was to select 'Adjust for best performance' (that unchecked all options) and it FIXED THE PROBLEM IMEDIATELY! However as Windows became extremely ugly I tried to check again ALL the options and started to uncheck one by one. I discovered that on MY SYSTEM just unchecking the three first ones was enough to take care of the issue.
So that's the tip. Try to disable some of the Visual effects and you may be good to go.
PS: Curiously, if you try some test programs such as LatencyMon it still will say that your computer has latency problems. However the cracks and pops won't be there anymore.
Hope it helps someone!
Since some time ago I was suffering with latency problems in Windows 7, but not recording latency: PLAYING latency. It is kind of a known issue on post-XP versions where drivers that consume too much CPU resources when pulling along the system threads causes the sound driver to hickup. As a result a simple music enjoying with an MP3 player becomes an irritating experience stuffed with cracks and pops. One of these drivers is the tcpip.sys and others tied to network services.
After some research I have found that there is tons of people suffering with this out there but seems that there is not a definitive answer or solution for this problem, and ones suggest to disable such drivers. Well, I don't know about others but I cannot disable my network drivers and get disconnected every time I want to listen to some tunes on my PC (actually it is where I listen to music 100% of time nowadays, mainly when I am working and therefore when I need my network up). Anyway, this suggestion sounds like a very dirty 'solution' for me.
In an attempt to resolve this I bought more RAM for my computer as it was really low (onyly 4GB). After to raise it to 8GB the problem remains, although the extra memory helped the computer on other areas. Another thing I did and that helped some was to replace the original driver of my sound card by ASIO. In my case, since I use Winamp, I downloaded its ASIO plugin. It really helped to REDUCE the cracks and pops but they didn't gop away for good.
Anyway, among my researches I have found somewhere that some video cards may steal CPU resources and interefere with a good music playing and it was adviced to uninstall any special tool that comes with such cards. Although I don't have any of these tools it lighted up something in my head and I remembered that my W7 still was with its default configuration that makes it shows all bells and whistles in terms of visual effects.
Then I stroke flag+pause-break and clicked on 'Advanced System Settings' and then Advanced tab. The clicked onto the 'settings' button at the 'Performance' section. My first attempt was to select 'Adjust for best performance' (that unchecked all options) and it FIXED THE PROBLEM IMEDIATELY! However as Windows became extremely ugly I tried to check again ALL the options and started to uncheck one by one. I discovered that on MY SYSTEM just unchecking the three first ones was enough to take care of the issue.
So that's the tip. Try to disable some of the Visual effects and you may be good to go.
PS: Curiously, if you try some test programs such as LatencyMon it still will say that your computer has latency problems. However the cracks and pops won't be there anymore.
Hope it helps someone!
Cause it doesn't use that awesome Areo technology. Just a simple ugly Linux like interface 
