Standalone Version Latency

[Wombat66]

I'm running G-Force Gold 2.7 standalone on a P4 2.4ghz computer, (Radeon 9600, 512MB Ram, Creative SB Live). No matter how much tweaking I've tried, I cannot reduce the latency to an acceptable level. The response of the graphics is considerably lagging behind the audio. Using a delay on a split of the external audio I've calculated the latency to be about 200ms. I've also tried a different sound card known for low latency (echo Layla) and get the same problem. However, when I run G-Force with MP3s in Winamp and Media Center, there is essentially no latency and everything looks great.

I'm interested in using G-Force with live music but the latency issue prevent this from working well.

Has anyone been able to succesfully get a low latency using external audio? If so, how did you do it? What hardware are you using?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[Rovastar]

There will always be *some* latency when using a live feed compaired to recorded source. Though 200ms sounds far too long.

Your hardware is fine it is likely to be a software/driver setting.

I use winamp running all my visualizations live.

Here is a walkthrough we did for the winamp forums.

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?&threadid=64973

I think is is all relevant it has been a few years.

[Wombat66]

Thanks Rovastar!

This is great information, I'll give it a run through.

I do see on the Jasper Driver link that Jaspers says ASIO provides lower latencies than his Low Latency WaveOut Plugin for Winamp, so I'll take that route.

[andy55]

I'm running G-Force Gold 2.7 standalone on a P4 2.4ghz computer, (Radeon 9600, 512MB Ram, Creative SB Live). No matter how much tweaking I've tried, I cannot reduce the latency to an acceptable level. The response of the graphics is considerably lagging behind the audio. Using a delay on a split of the external audio I've calculated the latency to be about 200ms. I've also tried a different sound card known for low latency (echo Layla) and get the same problem. However, when I run G-Force with MP3s in Winamp and Media Center, there is essentially no latency and everything looks great.

Hey there... Try setting PREF_FFT_FADE_AWAY (FFde) and PREF_FFT_SMOOTH (FSmo) in your prefs file to 0. To learn about them (and information on editing your G-Force prefs file), please see the "customizing" section of the G-Force docs. Beyond this, as Rovastar pointed out, some software drivers and OS mixer stuff can sometimes be responsible.

Andy

P.S. Rovastar, that's some good info--thanks for sharing that.

[Wombat66]

Thanks Andy! I'll give those settings a try.