[PD] windows 2000 latency?

[Peter Lundén]

My expericen is that Win 2000 is the worst version window when it comes 
to latency. Win XP is much better or even Win98.2 has better performance.

--PLu

dmerrill at media.mit.edu wrote:

>Hi there -
>
>What kind of latency should I expect out of a windows2000 machine running PD? I 
>measured an impulse going through my laptop running PD, with the following 
>patch:
>
>adc~ -> dac~
>
>and it took about 224msec. When speaking into the microphone, this "echo" is 
>really noticeable.  My laptop is a Thinkpad pentium750, 256MB, with the built-
>in soundcard..  Is there any way to cut this latency way down?  I'd like to get 
>it down to no more than 20msec.  Or do I need a faster machine?  Or Linux?
>
>thanks,
>David Merrill
>
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