I’m using TeamSpeak for several years now and have never had a problem like this before:
Several months ago (I don’t know exactly) I notices that I have a very significant delay in speaking from time to time. I speak into my microphone and the blue light turns on up to two seconds later.
I could always work around the problem by restarting the TeamSpeak client (disconnecting is not enough). After that, everything always worked again, for now.
I didn’t really deal with this problem until I also had performance issues in games or even in Windows directly. But I cannot guarantee this relationship one hundred percent.
What I do guarantee are the results of my diagnostics, which I ran with LatencyMon:
I am often online in TeamSpeak even when I am not talking to anyone. I have notices that the measured DPC latency increases over time the longer I use TeamSpeak. That doesn’t stop either. It can go up to tens of thousands of microseconds.
This is a screenshot of LatencyMon after only one hour of TeamSpeak usage (Pay attention to the current measured interrupt to DPC latency):
To solve the problem, I updated several drivers (chipset, Bluetooth, LAN and GPU), updated the BIOS to the latest stable version and reinstalled the TeamSpeak client.
Of course, none of this helped.
I also wanted to update the Realtek audio driver, but I did not find a download that is newer than 2017 on Realtek’s site.
The TeamSPeak version I use is: 3.5.6
Audio driver version is: 6.0.8960.1
Windows 10 Pro 20H2
So I was curious to go back and watch my latency with the program LatencyMon, what I noticed was a really annoying thing with Teamspeak 3.6.1/3.6.2 and TeamSpeak 5, NOTE (Tested on 3 different machines)
The conclusion is the same, when Teamspeak is started from a bare bone and brand new setup of Teamspeak and a fresh installation of windows 10/11 you will gain more than double Latency on your system and at worst it can cause the latency to raise it by x10 or more !
Windows 11, Fresh installed yesterday, latest version public (22621.2283)
cpu 5950x
motherboard ROG Crosshair VIII Hero bios 4501
Nvidia founders edition 3080 GPU
Creative G6 usb soundcard.
TeamSpeak 3.6.1 stable and dark skin installed thats it.
I dont have any voice/mic filtering setup in teamspeak settings, completely plain default setup.
Here’s a video.
tldr ts3/ts5 causes huge latency increase from 10-20(µs) up to 120-150(µs)
Okay so still no feedback from admins, I went away and tested version 3.5.6 64bit version it still went up from 10-20(µs) to around 50-70(µs) so its defiantly better than latest version 3.6.2 but still is bad compared to other chat/voices that does not do a jump at all when using their services.
This goes to the moon whenever teamspeaks gets started.
@TS.ChrisR Are we going to have somebody of any of you/developers look into this? or is this the last nail into teamspeak being abandoned?
Sadly we wont be using teamspeak anymore until this is fixed, at least for us in the competitive scene, already spread the news about this to the cores I play with, their findings is the same so its not a one of kind issue.
