geforce 320m driver causing latency (ableton)

Hello,

I have latency problems on my brandnew macbook pro (2010, with geforce 320m card)

I use my mac for making music and live performances, and I use windows 7 professional.

After various hours of trail and error I figured out that the nvidia driver for windows 7 is causing the high latency, the audio is much 'slower' compared to my other white macbook (from 2007). I used dpclat.exe (dpc latency checker) to determine the latency and i disabled devices one by one and the latency is more than OK when I use the standard vga driver of windows 7 instead of the nvidia one. To bad my external monitor doesn't work with the standard vga driver.
While googling i stumbled upon people talking about the 'powermizer' functionality or that the videocard is switching between 2d/3d, which could case the high latency spikes.
Anybody has a clue to fix this high latency? Or if there is a new decent driver for the geforce320m is in development?
Overall i'm very happy with the macbookpro but this is just strange.
(Update: I also tried windows xp but it has the same issues, also the driver causing the high latency spikes)

macbook pro 2010, Windows 7, ableton, latency, nvidia drivers

Posted on May 30, 2010 8:19 AM

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