Audacity Forum

So what ultimately worked was the following. My latency was set to -190 based on directions I had followed to set latency in the manual. I set the latency back to 0 and the problem went away. I set it back to -190 and its still works fine. Why? Beats me? Very frustrating. The drive had already been ...

Thanks Koz
The drive has plenty of room but I will try the defrag.

I am using the beta version for windows and have vista home premium with 4gb of RAM. I have a simple background track I am trying to overdub on. it plays fine. When i hit record however it starts to stutter or delay and i can't complete the overdub. When i look at the computer's resources it seems t...