[PD] windows 2000 latency?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I used to have a ThinkPad running Win2k and the built-in audio never did
better than 300ms latency no matter what I did.  I think you'll have to
get a USB or pcmcia soundcard to get good performance.

.hc

On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Matthew Allen wrote:

> And here I guess would be the problem with windows.
> 
> 	I get much, much better performance with windows 2k than I ever did
> with win98 (I keep up to date on all service packs and updates). Latency for
> me has always depended on the soundcard and the drivers, so for the original
> post, my initial reaction would be to look at the built in soundcard on the
> laptop. Make sure your Bios is completely up to date for your machine. To be
> honest though I'm not sure you are going to be able to get an acceptable
> latency with the built in sound. You may want to look at other laptop sound
> options.
> 
> 
> m.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter Lundén [mailto:plu at tii.se]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 7:46 AM
> > To: dmerrill at media.mit.edu
> > Cc: pd-list at iem.kug.ac.at
> > Subject: Re: [PD] windows 2000 latency?
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> 
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