Need help with capture card

[ThaGreatOne]

My capture card has a slight delay of, im guessing 1 second. i cant tell if its my computer or the capture card im using that's causing the delay. The capture card im using is a Dazzle DC 170 and im filming with pinnacle studios 12. the computer im using is a Dell Dimension 3100. I want to get rid of this delay so i can film videos on halo and CoD 4 but this delay is making it quite difficult.

How can i fix this annoying delay?

[DrXThirst]

It's probably your computer, but at the same time, I have 6GB DDR3, and a i7 945, and I got audio lag.

All I had to do was disable audio playback while capturing. That fixed it for me.

What are your computer's specs?

[ThaGreatOne]

It's probably your computer, but at the same time, I have 6GB DDR3, and a i7 945, and I got audio lag.

All I had to do was disable audio playback while capturing. That fixed it for me.

What are your computer's specs?

i have no idea, my moms friend gave this computer to us without any booklets on the computer. and the only stickers on the tower are the intel inside and the microsoft windows XP sticker. from what ive been told though, every capture card has a delay when your filming and playing on the monitor.

[Cuda]

Start->Run...->dxdiag.exe. read and post the numbers, specifically RAM, CPU and Graphics card (on another tab, in Display.)

[mxrider108]

i7 945

Do you mean a Core i7 940? I'm pretty sure there is no such thing as a 945. If so, I have the same processor and I'm loving it!

On topic: many capture devices have lag no matter how good your computer is. I'm not familiar with your specific device, but I do know to have no lag generally requires a good computer as well as a good capture device.

[ThaGreatOne]

thanks for the help but i know what the problem is, i need to buy some splitters and some other thing so that i can play on my tv while capturing on my computer

[DrXThirst]

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