• @iopq@lemmy.world
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    3711 months ago

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

    • Linos Melendi
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      2711 months ago

      Bluetooth is a terrible standard for gaming. You’d want something with its own dedicated 2.4ghz dongle.

    • @And009@reddthat.com
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      1211 months ago

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

      • Kilgore Trout
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        1011 months ago

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

        • @And009@reddthat.com
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          111 months 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

    • @regbin_@lemmy.world
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      911 months 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.

      • @kalmarin@lemmy.world
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        811 months ago

        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.

        • @Aux@lemmy.world
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          111 months ago

          Deprecated doesn’t mean it’s not supported. But it might be disabled by your phone manufacturer because they decided to cheap out.

          • @__dev@lemmy.world
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            311 months ago

            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.

            • @Aux@lemmy.world
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              111 months ago

              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.

              • @__dev@lemmy.world
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                211 months ago

                AptX and AptX LL are not the same thing. AptX has the same latency as LDAC and SBC: >200ms; whereas AptX LL is actually decent at ~30ms. AptX is supported by Windows out of the box, AptX LL is not.

            • @Aux@lemmy.world
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              211 months 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.

    • @gmtom@lemmy.world
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      011 months ago

      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.

      • @mctit@lemmy.world
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        111 months ago

        Gaming is the far from what they were designed for. When listening to music or whatever you couldn’t care less about a delay.