Windows 7 audio problems

On my previous thread I mentioned about windows 7, well here I am. Installed. Getting annoying audio pops and clicks whilst the computer is doing stuff.

For example, I'm just switching between windows and ti clicks. It's as if the audio drivers aren't installed yet I installed them and restarted and m-audio control panel is showing audio levels related to the audio I'm playing.

Perhaps the windows 7 drivers just suck.

I have to use legacy firewire drivers as Focusrite haven't sorted everything out with w7 yet.

nothing ever works does it, fucking windows piece of shit. I looked into it 4 or months back and they had a massive raging hard on for better audio. tip for them; don't simulate fucking vinyl

  On 1/22/2010 at 9:37 PM, futuregirlfriend said:

Perhaps the windows 7 drivers just suck.

 

I have to use legacy firewire drivers as Focusrite haven't sorted everything out with w7 yet.

the drivers are the official m-audio ones. maybe I should use the 32bit ones.

Might have to select your audio output on the Sound section of the Control Panel. Does it show an exclamation mark over any of the audio devices in device manager?

  On 1/22/2010 at 9:41 PM, Obel said:

Might have to select your audio output on the Sound section of the Control Panel. Does it show an exclamation mark over any of the audio devices in device manager?

nope, they look fine.

I just tried installing 32 bit drivers for the card but I don't think I am even able to. It looks like windows 7 64bit only supports 64bit drivers, yet it allows 32bit applications. Odd.

I tried changing the latency in the control panel too, no help. I'm going to go into the control panel now and make sure all onboard sound is off.

OK I used this:

http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml

Allows you to check latency. It told me:

Some device drivers on this machine behave bad and will probably cause drop-outs in real-time audio and/or video streams. To isolate the misbehaving driver use Device Manager and disable/re-enable various devices, one at a time. Try network and W-LAN adapters, modems, internal sound devices, USB host controllers, etc.

So, I'm going to remove everything and add devices one by one.

still no fix. It's exactly the same type of thing if I put the buffer *very* low in windows xp - it would cut the audio (buffer over flow) if the cpu spiked. however, increasing the buffer doesn't seem to help in this case.

Go to start type Sound look for a speaker and text that says "Sound" click on that speaker labeled Sound.

Under Playback tab click on the Icon that has a green check by it make sure its M Audio then hit properties.

Go to the advanced tab and try 16 bit 41000hz or 48000hz or 24 bit 41000hz or 48000hz and see if that helps stop the noises.

Are all other drivers, most importantly chipset driver, using their most current version and have installed fine?

you can use try maybe your onboard to sound to see if it clicks as well

thanks for the input, will check out these good ideas.

my sound is messed up too

everything sounds restricted

like if a loud bass not hits I can't hear anything else over it

I think it's my shit sound card though

I've got an old Delta 44 on Win 7. If I remember right, the only drivers out for this card are beta - and it shows.

  On 1/23/2010 at 1:28 AM, Fishtank said:

my sound is messed up too

everything sounds restricted

like if a loud bass not hits I can't hear anything else over it

I think it's my shit sound card though

have you messed with the windows 7 audio mixer thing-a-ma-gig?

gave up in the end. I tried absolutely everything (spent a solid 3/4 hours). it's a mixture of wifi drivers/graphics card drivers, windows putting drivers on automatically...

so I gave up and now i'm just going to use 3.2gb ram with windows xp and for my audio machine i use osx86 (hackintosh). oh well, i tried.

I'll probably use windows 7 when they bring windows 8 out in 2012, by then it might be less shit.

what kind of sound card is it? It's not windows fault if the manufacturer for the sound card can't release a decent driver. I just bought a new media sound card for my gaming desktop, the Creative Xtremegamer, and the most recent "stable" drivers for W7 x64 from Creatives website were shit... I'd get stutters in my games every minute or so which made online gaming quite frustrating. I then found some 3rd party drivers developed by some dude in mommy's basement and all my problems dissolved into the eternal pits of conquered IT hell.

For my music machine I use a 3 year old dell laptop which I recently loaded with W7 x64 and have had 0 problems with my Native Instruments Audio Kontrol 1 sound card, Ableton Live 8, VSTs, plus all my midi gear.

very clever m8, BRAVO!

it's a 24/96. it's all over now anyway, I'll go back to windows 7 when m-audio or windows sorts out the problem, whoever it may be. windows 7 advantages to me - fast at booting/shutting down, ability to have tons of gigs of ram. negatives - looks like shit, preferences jumbled about the place like raffle tickets, annoying automatic driver installation, fucking fucking shit UAC which doesn't even let some administrators delete stuff.

anyway, I put xp on my new machine and wow boy is it fast, fuck me i can't even think fast enough to prepare.

for my audio stuff i use the OSX86 - the drivers aren't even official (wrote by some random dude) and as you say, work fine. funny shit that.

  On 1/23/2010 at 10:46 PM, joshier said:

it's a 24/96. it's all over now anyway, I'll go back to windows 7 when m-audio or windows sorts out the problem, whoever it may be. windows 7 advantages to me - fast at booting/shutting down, ability to have tons of gigs of ram. negatives - looks like shit, preferences jumbled about the place like raffle tickets, annoying automatic driver installation, fucking fucking shit UAC which doesn't even let some administrators delete stuff.

 

anyway, I put xp on my new machine and wow boy is it fast, fuck me i can't even think fast enough to prepare.

 

for my audio stuff i use the OSX86 - the drivers aren't even official (wrote by some random dude) and as you say, work fine. funny shit that.

Any squeaky clean OS will boot up fast and you can also run just as much ram with XP x64 which is what I used for my music station until I switched over to W7. Have you considered XP x64?

As for all your dislikes of the W7, you can change all those. You can change the theme to look like W2000 if you'd like, I personally don't mind it. The preferences thing bothered me for a while but then I found this hack:

Windows 7 God Mode: LINK - which basically dumps everything into a preference bucket... quite cool.

You can easily turn off driver detection and UAC

windows vista and windows 7 have a completely new audio system, and no one can write competent drivers for it. especially creative/emu. stick with xp for music.

  On 1/24/2010 at 2:30 PM, chaosmachine said:

windows vista and windows 7 have a completely new audio system, and no one can write competent drivers for it. especially creative/emu. stick with xp for music.

My E-MU 1820 works fine with my Windows 7 installation.. atleast this far.

I finally, finally worked this fucking c*** out.

Turns out it was EIST, or 'SpeedStep' if you have an intel processor. The funny thing is, only vista and windows 7 goes wrong with the audio when this is enabled, OSX, Linux and windows xp are all A-OK with it being on! Go figure.

So, if you go under 'Advanced BIOS Features' you should see something like EIST/SpeedStep (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpeedStep), just turn it the hell off ebcause it'll wreak havoc on your latency, for my case it did anyway.