Latency when using Windows Media Player on Lenovo T61

Today I had to face quite an interesting experience! While listening to music (to David Vendetta, great DJ btw!!) using windows media player I started to experience some latency and bwwwwip sounds once in a while. Surprising since I actually never experienced that until today.

The only thing I changed today was that I plugged my new monitor to the docking station, a digital monitor! As surprising as is can be it turned out to be the reason for the delay! I guess since the T61 does not have a digital output the docking station has to somehow convert it to digital which seems to consume some CPU… Not exactly sure about that but anyway the patch is simply to use the analog output of the docking station. Again since the T61 does not have a digital output it does not seem to be such a problem (i.e. no quality loss I guess).

Did it for me, at least…