[F9, AS2] Audio Latency

[gotoAndCrash]

Greetings All,
I'm working on a project similar to a clone of the old game "Simon" (remember that?!), & I'm having an audio latency issue, which only appears to be present on PCs. Upon keypress I'm attaching a sound from the library, & on PCs the sound is significantly delayed.
Does anyone have any ideas/methods for eliminating a latency? For this project it's crucial that the sound is prompt.

Thanks,
gtc.

[_Ric_]

Perhaps you could try creating a movie clip which has the sounds one after the other already set out on the time line. Attach the movie clip before the game starts, and use the gotoAndPlay and gotoAndStop functions to play the desired sounds. Probably a bit of work, but maybe if the movie clip is already added from the library, the latency might go away. Just a thought.

[gotoAndCrash]

That's kind of the way that it was before it got to me - it was actually set up with each sound being in it's own movie clip, & then each clip was played as needed. I improved it a bit by attaching sounds to the stage & pushing them into an array, then using constants to access them. It was improved, but is still far easier to play on a Macintosh - & I swear I'm not just being a fanBoy!

Thanks for replying

[TOdorus]

Upon keypress I'm attaching a sound from the library

Everytime the key is pressed??? You only need to attach the sound from the library to one Sound object and tell the sound to play when needed. Saves you the hassle with movieclips too.

[Aarden]

I have exact the same problem and it is not because of the attachSound. I attach the sounds in class constructor and on release I only call start(). And the latency is really notable. But I have suspicion that it is all because of Vist. Omg I hate Microsoft so much...

[gotoAndCrash]

Yeah, I ended up doing the attachSound then just playing it later (just like you said TOdorus, though I didn't see this until today!). But I also noticed a latency occurring when there was a lot of action or animation on the screen - or even if there were a lot of complex vector art (like a file imported from Illustrator which creates far too many "art" shapes - which was the case in the file that sparked this post in the first place).

I hate Microsoft, too!!!