Is there anyone else with Sound Blaster Z audiocard?

[Warfare]

I've bought Sound Blaster Z audiocard and connected it using optical cable to 5.1 system. It sounds gorgeous, however I'm expiriencing slight delay between sound and picture. It's not so noticable in movies, but pretty noticable in games, specially during cut scenes with lipsync.
When I'm system with common 3-jacks cable, everything works just fine.
Does anyone else uses this audiocard with optical output? Do you expirience this problem too?

[Revelene]

Has it done this from the beginning, on default settings?

Probably just need a clean installation of the drivers. I'd also recommend removing the sound drivers for the onboard as well. Get drivers from Creative's support page, not through Windows.

[Arvaos]

I recommend setting the audio quality to 44-48KhZ audio output, the delay could be caused by down conversion.

[Warfare]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Bill S. Preston, Esquire:

Has it done this from the beginning, on default settings?

Probably just need a clean installation of the drivers. I'd also recommend removing the sound drivers for the onboard as well. Get drivers from Creative's support page, not through Windows.

Yes, this was from beginning, on the system installed from scratch. Be default it has some adjsutment settings on, like Crystalizer and stuff. Unchecking them decrease the latency about 200-300 ms, but it's still not good enough.

Drivers installed manually, the latest version available. However I haven't tried to remove the onboard drivers. I'll give it a shot, thank you.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Synth3D:

I recommend setting the audio quality to 44-48KhZ audio output, the delay could be caused by down conversion.

Well, it's 48 already. I think that converting sound to DTS may cause the latency, but I'm not sure if it's possible to send sound through optical cable without converting.

[darkkterror]

It is possible to send sound over optical without converting however you will only get 2 channel audio. For 5.1 to work over optical it has to be converted to a compressed format like DTS or Dolby.

[Warfare]

So it's seems like DTS is the only option. And I'm alone here who suffers a slight lag because of it?

[Midnight Fawn]

Are you using a TV by any chance..?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Do you have other audio devices active on the system?
Disable them completely.

Have you tried a different PCIE slot?
Please do that.

Have you tried different Audio Driver?

Also put the card setting to Game Mode; setup the DTS 5.1
Once applied, reboot.

[Warfare]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Scottish Tablet:

Are you using a TV by any chance..?

I am. But this is not the video latency, because it's same with the monitor.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Bad-Motha:

Do you have other audio devices active on the system?
Disable them completely.

Have you tried a different PCIE slot?
Please do that.

Have you tried different Audio Driver?

Also put the card setting to Game Mode; setup the DTS 5.1
Once applied, reboot.

About different Audio driver - I'm not sure where to find one, except the official one I'm using.
Also I couldn't find anything like Game Mode for my audiocard.

I've just tried disabling Nvidia virtual audio device and onboard audio. Seems to be a bit better, though need a bit more testing.

[Revelene]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Warfare:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Scottish Tablet:

Are you using a TV by any chance..?

I am. But this is not the video latency, because it's same with the monitor.

I'd say he asked, as many televisions have internal sound processing that can add latency. Probably check if you can disable any fancy audio settings.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Bill S. Preston, Esquire:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Warfare:

I am. But this is not the video latency, because it's same with the monitor.

I'd say he asked, as many televisions have internal sound processing that can add latency. Probably check if you can disable any fancy audio settings.

Well if you are not feeding any Digital Audio Source to the Display, then it's never processing any audio.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Warfare:

About different Audio driver - I'm not sure where to find one, except the official one I'm using.
Also I couldn't find anything like Game Mode for my audiocard.

I've just tried disabling Nvidia virtual audio device and onboard audio. Seems to be a bit better, though need a bit more testing.

Whenever you use a dedicated Sound Card, it is best to first go uninstall the Drivers for your Motherboard's Onboard Audio (such as Realtek); once those drivers/software are uninstalled, reboot, enter the BIOS and Disable Onboard Audio of any kind in there; that ensure such devices never present themselves to your OS.

For GPUs such as AMD or NVIDIA, those will offer audio as well (for when/if you want Audio through HDMI or DisplayPort; however, the GPUs audio codec handles that and the features are very limited when used); after installing any GPU Driver Suite and you've rebooted and ready to use the system; go to Device Manager > look under Sound/Audio and right click GPU related audio devices and Disable them.

If you used any Drivers/Software for Creative sound card supplied via Disc, uninstall all of those.

Once complete (multiple reboots might be needed) then go here for the latest Drivers/Software for that series:
http://support.creative.com/downloads/welcome.aspx?nLanguageLocale=1033&nDriverType=0#type_0

Which covers:
Sound Blaster Z (SB1500, SB1502)
Sound Blaster Zx (SB1506)

Download:
Creative Sound Blaster Z-Series Software
Filesize : 157.25 MB
Release date : 24 Jun 16

and install that. Reboot after completed, then load up the Creative Volume Control and set everything up how you want.

Here is an example of where to set it to "Gaming"
http://cache.megatechnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/evozx-13-500x357.jpg

[Otter Boi]

I am using the Sound Blaster Z sound card. I bought the sound card for scout mode and more HD audio and using an older drivers version of the sound card because I experience issues with audio with the latest drivers installed like audio sounds like NES 8-bit sometimes when I paly GMod and voice chatting on Skype.

[Revelene]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Bad-Motha:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Bill S. Preston, Esquire:

I'd say he asked, as many televisions have internal sound processing that can add latency. Probably check if you can disable any fancy audio settings.

Well if you are not feeding any Digital Audio Source to the Display, then it's never processing any audio.

Well, water is wet, too.

He never specified what he was sending the audio to.

[Warfare]

Hello, sorry for been out of computer forawhile. Anyway:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von birthdaybrian:

I am using the Sound Blaster Z sound card. I bought the sound card for scout mode and more HD audio and using an older drivers version of the sound card because I experience issues with audio with the latest drivers installed like audio sounds like NES 8-bit sometimes when I paly GMod and voice chatting on Skype.

Thanks, good idea, I'll try to switch to older drivers.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Bill S. Preston, Esquire:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Warfare:

I am. But this is not the video latency, because it's same with the monitor.

I'd say he asked, as many televisions have internal sound processing that can add latency. Probably check if you can disable any fancy audio settings.

Thanks, but as I've mentioned, it connected directly to 5.1 system Logitech Z906.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Bad-Motha:

I've uninstalled onboard and Nvidia audio drivers. It became better, but unfortunately not as much as on 3 jacks.
I have the latest drivers from the creative websites - the first thing I've checked.
I'm not using any profiles, because all of them enables SBX Pro studio features, which leads to small latency increase.

[Revelene]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Warfare:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Bill S. Preston, Esquire:

I'd say he asked, as many televisions have internal sound processing that can add latency. Probably check if you can disable any fancy audio settings.

Thanks, but as I've mentioned, it connected directly to 5.1 system Logitech Z906.

I double checked and this is the first mention of what you were connecting to.