Originally posted by 2MuchCoffeeMan:yeah true
If those thing i meantioned dont work, gimme a message, ill tyr to check some thigns out more. Not like imma skype expert since skype is so beurifully sutomated, my mic gets muted in skype, without me beeing able to find the problem there hahah, skype is just weird. The thing is, skype changes the settings needed ( usually the mic boost on) to get some sound out of it, usually it does this automatically. Try to search for some kind of microphone boost option in the same section as where you changed the volume of your microphone like you said in windows, with any luck there would be a slider below it saying "microphone boost"if there is, and its not turned on, put it on +20dB, and try it again. It could be, that, in windows, you microphone volume boots is standard turned off, but since skype is annoyingly automated, it could be that he turns on your microphone boost at +20Db and while ingame, you would miss that volume, so the game doesnt register any sound from it, and wont activate. Only skype alters the settings of your soundcard, so for the rest, you have the microphone options, and can turn it on and such, not that the microphone buttons ingame are totally greyed out, cuz that owuld mean it really doesnt recognize ur soundcard. Should steam utilise my headset microphone (set as default in recording devices) as the audio device, or should it utilise my headset earphone (set as default in playback devices) as the audio device? Because steam is using the headset earphone as the audio device from the playback devices and instead should it utilise my default device from my recording devices which is my headset microphone? Please help!
I recently just tried updating all drivers and they all seam up to date aswell, there is no problem thereĬan someone please help me? I have also tried the "test microphone" in the voice tab of steam setting aswell as checking for audio devices and then following the prompts of setting my microphone headset as default. I checked my system information on steam, and realised that steam cannot detect my sound card for some weird reason, but i know my computer has a sound card because i can still use skype! I have set my microphone headset as defeault on recording devices and playback devices, checked the properties >levels> 100, of my microphone, and my microphone still doesn't work in steam but it works on skype? Please notify management that this issue of problem-causing updates is very serious.So I have literally tried everything in my opinion. My friends with Apple computers keep telling me to switch because they don't have these incessant annoying and time-wasting issues. The basic idea of computers is to save time, but this sort of wanton disregard for first thoroughly proving and debugging changes for updatesīefore dispersing them is more than counterproductive.
It's taken me 6 hours of normal work time, I don't have today, just to finally discover this solution of resetting the update change in my privacy setting (for my audio/microphone).
Once again wasting time trying to learn where my contacts went and how to get them to appear right at the start. Now when I want to make a phone call using my paid subscription, it looks so different (from v 7.4 to latest 8.23.0.10) that I am both lost and confused, therefore, I loved the old Skype before it was taken over by MS and drastically (over time) changed. I long ago came to fear both MS Win 10 AND Skype updates for the reason they have too often wrecked havoc on my various computers, causing me to lose valuable time trying to resolve these problems, all of which were caused by taking the latest updates. Various cell phone and land line voice mail messages. One of them was that it changed the microphone privacy access to my Skype, which, in turn, made it impossible for me to either make calls or listen to my
Have wasted hours because last windows 10 update made changes in my settings without my knowledge.