Chat microphone problem

[StuartR]

New info !

I remembered that I changed my framesize in early december, from 10ms to 2ms... greatly improved my guitar sound !
But this is also what scrapped my microphone!

I resetted the framesize to 10ms and the microphone is clear (but the guitar... ).
At 5ms, same crakling...

So, it has to do with the framesize... any clues if there is another parameter in Windows that would make the microphone work at 2ms ???

I still think you'll be in much better shape if you use a hardware audio interface rather than depending on the high-latency, shared audio subsystem in Windows.