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Audio Delay in PC Games
« on: August 31, 2011, 11:32:28 PM »
I am getting bad audio delay on all my games on PC. People are talking after their mouths close and guns go bang after the recoil ends. The problem did not occur until after I updated to CCC 11.8 and installed Deus Ex. I am feeling the culprit is Deus Ex, yet it could just be coincidence. I have reinstalled drivers and Deus with out luck. The problem happened on my onboard audio and then also on my Creative sound card I installed a couple of days after the problem started. No solutions on the internet has fixed my issue or was even close to what I am experiencing. Any help would be MUCH appreciated. 

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Re: Audio Delay in PC Games
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2011, 11:58:55 PM »
I am getting bad audio delay on all my games on PC. People are talking after their mouths close and guns go bang after the recoil ends. The problem did not occur until after I updated to CCC 11.8 and installed Deus Ex. I am feeling the culprit is Deus Ex, yet it could just be coincidence. I have reinstalled drivers and Deus with out luck. The problem happened on my onboard audio and then also on my Creative sound card I installed a couple of days after the problem started. No solutions on the internet has fixed my issue or was even close to what I am experiencing. Any help would be MUCH appreciated.
When you say you reinstalled drivers, did you use something like Driver Sweeper to remove the old drivers, or did you just uninstall using the AMD software? Try Driver Sweeper if you haven't. (You have to uninstall the regular way, then reboot into safe mode and use Driver Sweeper)

Try going back to CCC 11.7 if that doesn't work, using Driver Sweeper again. 11.8 is a beta release. Never mind, apparently not a beta release anymore.

If that doesn't work I'd say it's a problem Deus Ex has with your hardware that needs to be patched in the future. Unless it happens in other games too, then I don't know what to say.
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Re: Audio Delay in PC Games
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2011, 12:46:40 AM »
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Re: Audio Delay in PC Games
« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2011, 02:17:35 AM »
Make sure CCC isn't trying to decode the game's audio over the game's engine. Those things generally have a blacklist. I don't think DE is the problem as most games don't install their own proprietary drivers (there have been issues with games doing that in the past though so I don't know). Your best bet is CCC being the problem.
CCC shouldn't muddy up the sound like that. It's a video driver, unless he's using audio over the video HDMI cable to a TV or something.
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Re: Audio Delay in PC Games
« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2011, 05:36:41 AM »
CCC shouldn't muddy up the sound like that. It's a video driver, unless he's using audio over the video HDMI cable to a TV or something.

For some reason I thought he was referring to the Combined Community Codec Pack. I now see that it is actually Radeon drivers (Nvidia user, never owned a Radeon card in my life) :derp:
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Re: Audio Delay in PC Games
« Reply #5 on: September 01, 2011, 07:07:05 PM »
For some reason I thought he was referring to the Combined Community Codec Pack. I now see that it is actually Radeon drivers (Nvidia user, never owned a Radeon card in my life) :derp:
Yeah, that was my first thought. But then I saw the lack of a "P" in the name, and the version number.

The only suggestion I can make to the poster is phony's. Uninstall the driver, use sweeper to clean leftover garbage, and install the 11.7 version to see if Deus Ex still glitches.

If it still does, then it's indeed the game. Maybe it's a bug that can be patched, or maybe his computer simply doesn't have the necessary processing power and the audio goes out of sync.
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Re: Audio Delay in PC Games
« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2011, 08:35:35 PM »
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Re: Audio Delay in PC Games
« Reply #7 on: January 03, 2012, 02:50:09 AM »
Wow I can't believe I forgot I posted this.  I feel like a complete idiot and douche for leaving you guys in the dark for so many months. Anyways the problem is not isolated to only Deus Ex but all games and video. I have uninstalled all video/audio drivers and then went back in with driver sweeper with no luck. I even did a clean install of Windows 7 a couple months after I originally posted and the problem persisted. I am completely lost on what is causing the the sound sync issues. 

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Re: Audio Delay in PC Games
« Reply #8 on: January 20, 2012, 05:46:32 AM »
A fresh install of the issue didn't solve the problem? Even on the second sound card? What brand harddrive do you have.

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Re: Audio Delay in PC Games
« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2012, 02:36:40 PM »
I have a Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB 7200 rpm.

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Re: Audio Delay in PC Games
« Reply #10 on: January 23, 2012, 05:24:14 PM »
Hard drive shouldn't have an effect on this.  Things should be in ram long before this.

Do problems occur outside of games also or only in games?  I.E.  mp3 players video players also or just games?
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Re: Audio Delay in PC Games
« Reply #11 on: January 24, 2012, 04:19:45 PM »
It also happens in YouTube videos and while playing blu-rays as well.

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« Reply #12 on: January 24, 2012, 07:05:15 PM »
It also happens in YouTube videos and while playing blu-rays as well.

I was hoping you'd say the opposite, then I could blame direct x for it :P

Any special audio apps in your collection like Virtual Audio Cable or the like?
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Re: Audio Delay in PC Games
« Reply #13 on: January 25, 2012, 12:05:58 AM »
Scratch that. It just happens in games. I double checked with my sister for her opinion of movies' lip syncing. I guess I have become paranoid because of the HUGE lag in games. My computer also crashes every time I install updated video drivers or CAPs. 

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Re: Audio Delay in PC Games
« Reply #14 on: January 25, 2012, 12:48:35 AM »
My computer also crashes every time I install updated video drivers or CAPs. 
Uh-oh. Something is definitely out of kilt with your computer.
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Re: Audio Delay in PC Games
« Reply #15 on: January 26, 2012, 06:12:14 PM »
I used to use driver sweeper before I installed the updated video drivers, but it still crashed. I just used AtiMan uninstaller with the extreme setting with the 12.1 drivers and encountered zero crashes, so I feel I figured out that problem which had been happening since drivers 11.9.

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« Reply #16 on: January 26, 2012, 09:30:02 PM »
I used to use driver sweeper before I installed the updated video drivers, but it still crashed. I just used AtiMan uninstaller with the extreme setting with the 12.1 drivers and encountered zero crashes, so I feel I figured out that problem which had been happening since drivers 11.9.
A buggered installation caused by installing one version over the other?
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