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Latency just still isn't there unfortunately (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
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[–] 37 points 3 years ago (6 children)

I have Sony xm 3 headphones and I can't game on them because everything is delayed like 100ms

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Couldn't believe it at first and thought mine was a defective pair. The delay is atrocious

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It's because Bluetooth is primarily designed for low power usage.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Yep, but as someone pointed out those were $300 at launch. I know they're not meant for gaming and reading about latency issues seems like a 1st world problem to me because my older Bluetooth headset had lower latency.

    Come to think of it, I don't even remember which pair they were but it would've been under $100 with some BT dac maybe

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    That's not a gaming headphone. A proper gaming headphone have near zero latency, you can even play rhythm games with it. Usually it will come with it's own wireless dongle and doesn't use Bluetooth at all.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Next time buy headphones with AptX low latency support.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I bought headphones with aptxLL, only to find out that newer Qualcomm chipsets have depricared it in favor of aptx adaptive. It's not backward compatible and at the time there wasn't a single adaptive set of headphones on the market. I would either have to buy a >4 year old phone or get a new pair of overpriced headphones to use it now.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Sure would be cool if Windows supported anything but AAC and SBC though...

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    Windows has full support for AptX since forever.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    From what I've seen this isn't true. Search for "Windows AptX LL" and you'll see dozens of ways you might install drivers that add support. The most common advice seems to be to buy a dongle that supports it.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    All my laptops and PCs support AptX out of the box without any 3rd party stuff. There can be exceptions, sure, but I haven't seen them myself.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Huh, must be my hardware then. It is getting kinda old...

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    When my PC didn't have built-in Bluetooth stack, I was using ASUS single. It's cheap and works just fine with my headphones without any noticeable latency. And there's definitely a huge difference when I try to use my Bose 700 which don't support shit.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I have xm4 and have absolutely 0 problems with it. I feel like unless you're an actual pro gamer or a sweaty elitist it makes no difference.

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