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Warbringer
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This is probably the most mysterious bug in Win7. I started to record my own songs using the line input. On XP I had no problems, but when I changed for Win7, the sound is delaying; I play the sound and hear it in speakers half second later. Realtek and ASIO drivers didn't help. Any ideas?

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The problem seems only to be present on Vista, 7+ and it looks like the root of it is the reworked sound subsystem:
Windows XP:
IMG:https://habrastorage.org/getpro/habr/post_images/dd8/0c4/57d/dd80c457d7eb0fefa828e645a7692881.png

Windows 7:
IMG:https://habrastorage.org/getpro/habr/post_images/85c/551/4ff/85c5514ff9a8b3ae0bcf15afe11def34.png

(Source: ru, https://habrahabr.ru/post/115092/)

You can clearly see how much more processing is done to the standard output on Win7. To bypass this you can:
a) Install Windows XP
b) Try to output sound in ASIO/OpenAL mode.
c) WASAPI Exclusive output mode which goes directly to the output, but then only one program can use a device as it's output at a time (say you can only hear Audacity's sound but not Youtube at the same time).

You can also try out ASIO4ALL, but it may be buggy as well.

If nothing else works, FL Studio way; copy-pasted >


What sound card do you use?

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Now we would also like to know 2 things:
• Which Dell Optiplex model is your PC (the 760 and 780 model share the same "E93839 GA0404", whatever it is called)
• Whether your Windows 7 is 32-bit or 64-bit
I briefly searched the Dell website, the Analog Devices ADI 198x Integrated HD Audio driver is what you should be looking for.

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About the audio devices, WASAPI usually does the thing (and there's a non exclusive mode aswell) but ASIO4ALL is good aswell.

And if you're not willing to install fruity loops, there's also REAPER which actually is truly free to use and offers a portable installation option.
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