WDM drivers have latency worse than MME

[johnhoe]

Can anyone suggest why I have to use MME interface in Sonar XL 2 to get best latency? (Currently 30) I have SB Audigy Platinum. I have tried a 2nd party WDM driver but again its worse than MME!
I have heard that the Microsoft WDM driver is better than the Creative one, but how can one get at this?

Other specs. AMD Athlon 1.9G, Windows XP.

[Teacher]

click on windows update and scan for update one of the updates will be a driver update for ur Sound Blaster(well thats how it worked for my sblive value)

[johnhoe]

Thanks for your reply. I scanned for updates but none were for the Audigy, so I suppose I must have the latest stuff on here already. Any other ideas?

[dachay2tnr]

The Windows WDM drivers are on the Win XP CD. You should be able to load them through your control panel. I don't have XP so I can't give you the specific steps.

I believe 10ms is the lowest latency setting you can get for the SB Live/Audigy. This is still too high for input monitoring.

[johnhoe]

Nope cant find them but perhaps Im doing something wrong. I did notice that although the Cakewalk Sonar Demo team (in UK) used both a Delta and an Audigy card with Sonar, they only used the delta card for recording audio. I think prehaps Creative should stop claiming "low latency performance surpassing traditional LAN gaming solutions" and come clean about the abysmal performance of their products.

[audiohead]

You may want to take a look at these sites:

http://www.kxdev.com - independent drivers project
http://fernando.darocha.free.fr/liveware.htm - lotsa drivers

[dachay2tnr]

Nope cant find them but perhaps Im doing something wrong.

I suspect this is because you are trying to "update" the driver. I don't think Windows will see its original drivers as an update. You need to do something along the lines of a "rollback" or select an option to "display a list of all drivers". Obviously you want to look for the ones with Microsoft shown as the provider.

Sorry for the vagueness, but as mentioned, I don't have XP myself. The drivers are there, though.

You are correct, IMHO, this is not an audio card. Keep it for midi and get yourself a real audio card.

[johnhoe]

Thanks for the replies guys.
I guess its a Delta 1010 purchase coming up! I tried the alternative kx driver and its still awful. I still get better results with MME but NICE TRY and thanks for the suggestions.

[moskus]

It could be WinXP. Why not try to reinstall it... it worked for a friend of mine.

[johnhoe]

Thanks, I just did! Inadvertently the wdm drivers recommended crashed the computer and knocked out various devices! Although I found I could not reinstall WinXP over the previous copy like u can with 98. You have to install to a different directory (windows2) and then copy all docs and settings across to the new desktop. The worse thing is the latency is still at 30!!

Maybe its my motherboard (Asus a7m266)