System: Phenom II 2.8Ghz Quad Core CPU, 16GB Ram, Radeon HD 6970Gpu w/2GB ram 600GB HDD space free.
I have found this oddball issue with FMLE and WebcamMax that causes a major amount of latency. And, only with WebcamMax.
I have tried ManyCam it runs fine, VHScrCAP it works well, and running straight from any of my camera drivers works just fine. I can run Manycam with Webcam Max as a video capture option and the latency drops, but not to what it is using Manycam or the others alone.
I use DPC Latency Checker a free tool to keep track in microseconds the amount of latency you may have. To be fair to all I have uninstalled each webcam type software and did reinstalls of each one at a time. And, even restored my system to a time before the use of them, along with a registry cleaning as to insure I get as fresh an install as possible. Slow and annoying to do this in this fashion, YES. But, worth checking in order to find the where the issue is.
WebcamMax runs fine when run on my desktop alone, as soon as I select it in FMLE... The under 500 Microseconds averages about 120micro seconds to 350micro seconds... had first jumpred to over 16,000 micro seconds (over 24,000), and after much adjusting and tweaking of settings in FMLE get it to sometimes hold about about 3,000 to 4,000 micro seconds. Leaving my viewers in for a choppy ride as the stream freezes, and lags for them.
Also, the latency issue happens BEFORE I even connect, and or start the FMLE stream. So it seems to be something between the Codecs used for FMLE and WebcamMax. I have read many places that this is rather common, and that the issue must be with WebcamMax.
I have taken the time to read the entire forum for WebcamMax, and like any good vender of software, or hardware it's always the other venders fault or issue.
Rather than assign blame, can we find a solid resolution for this? I imagine that many of the people with this odd latency issue are not ALL WebcamMax users, as I think this issue if it accurs in other programs (Non I can find after trying ALL I can with FMLE so far) could crash systems, the FMLE could lock up, and other frustrating issues.
The tool I used to check Latency is: DPC Latency Checker, and this tiny tool allows you to watch in real time your systems current and under load latency so you can better diagnose and fix issues, even if they do not appear in the Device Managers listing as having an issue.
Drivers to Mobo uptodate, Video Card drivers uptodate, Sound Drivers uptodate, webcam drivers uptodate.
Win 7 64Bit is the OS.
Thanks in advance for any help with this.