16 May 2007

Vista & Flash Sound Issues & Delays

I have noticed that since moving to Vista there are sound delay issues. When playing sounds from flash or other players such as Media Player there is a noticable delay before the sound starts playing.

Further investigation hasn't turned up much, but there must be heaps of Flash people out there that play sounds in time with animations that are having this problem.

If anyone has any clues, feel free to comment


EDIT: I have found the problem, turns out Vista is trying to be too clever and enhancing my sounds, disable sound enhancements and all is good.
See Screenshot Below: It's under Control Panel, Sounds, Speakers.


14 comments:

Andre Michelle said...

I installed Vista today and have the same problems that you mention, but I don't have the options, that you have. There is nothing I can change to have a smooth playback. Not good...

Dale Fraser's Blog said...

I suggest you need to update your sound drivers.

Pete said...

Thanks for that. It solved a problem that was driving me mad
Pete

Chris said...

yes! This worked. thanks.

Daryl said...

Also, thanks! This solves a problem calling PlaySound(...SND_ASYNC...) in C++, and probably every other programming language.

iric said...

Great Find!!! I was about ready to pull my hair out and install WinXP on my girlfriends computers. Hell would reach earth if her neopets did not work properly!

Jinx said...

OMG, you rock! I just spent an hour on this stupid problem until I found this blog entry. Solved it right quick.

Vista FTL!!!

Thanx Dale

Andres said...

Worked like a CHARM.
Thank you very much for sparing me that last bit of sanity I've been holding on to. :)

Anonymous said...

thank you, saved me a headache.

Dionysis said...

Thanx for the tip man! Great help!

Anonymous said...

TY this was awesome

Ross said...

OMG I love you so hard right now.....Thank you sooooo much dude....this has been pissin me off so bad 4 like a month....

Anonymous said...

Thank God your blog came up in a google search! This problem has been driving me INSANE. Kudos to you!

:D

Pge said...

Thanks a lot for this tip! I'd already spent half a days work tracking down the sound bugs in my Flash project and this turned out te be the problem. Windows Vista really sucks!