LatencyMon is a small application that can analyze whether your system can process audio in real time. To do this, the program analyzes possible causes of buffer performance degradation and measures kernel latencies. Finally, you will be presented with a very intuitive report with all the information gathered and the conclusions that can be reached.

LatencyMon’s main usefulness is that Windows is not a real-time operating system. All requests to the operating system are made according to a system primarily based on efficiency, but we do not guarantee delivery within a specific time frame. This isn’t a problem for most tasks you perform on your computer, but it is a problem for audio applications. This is because blocks of data need to be delivered to subsystems and hardware devices several times per second. If even one of these data blocks is not delivered on time, the audio quality will be poor.

Given all of the above, it’s well understood that LatencyMon focuses on showing whether the system can manage audio in real-time without problems or loss of quality. Using the app to get this information is as simple as clicking the start button and waiting a few seconds. The analysis usually takes less than 10 seconds, so you can get the answers you’re looking for in no time.

LatencyMon is an easy-to-use and very lightweight app. Thanks to that, we get very specific, yet very useful information. Furthermore, it is of particular interest to regular content creators and consumers of audiovisual content.