Speech Problems
Essentially, ever since i've moved onto my new Shuttle, i've been incapable of using my headset to talk in online games. The last time I tried was with the GWJ BF2142 clan, and what happened was that nothing I said worked and all anyone heard was a veritable sh*tload of feedback, static and loud, oppressive noise.
This doesn't just happen in Voice Chat clients like Ventrilo or anything. While calibrating BF2 today, I noticed the same issue when trying to calibrate my microphone.
Essentially, the only time my microphone works as it should is when it's not trying to broadcast over the internet. Then, it's fine. As long as i'm sitting at the desktop, talking to myself, I can hear and talk just fine. Even Sound Recorder picks up my voice with no troubles.
I'm not sure what it is exactly. It could be my crapular firewall (nVidia Active Armor) that attempted to kill my PC the last time I tried to get it the hell off of it. (Read here).
It could be my Realtek HD Audio Manager, which i've noticed doesn't let me adjust the volume of my microphone input while still acknowledging that it's been plugged in (there is literally no slider for the microphone's gain. I can mute it, but no slider whatsoever).
It could just be that I have a crappy headset and need to get a new one. I have no idea here. Anyone have the faintest idea of what's up? I desperately want to be able to hang and chat with goodjers outside of XBox Live, but if you can't talk, it's kind of hard to play something like BF2.
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Try a USB headphone/mic. Skip the weedy audio hardware on your motherboard.
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Prederick: There's a little wrench icon in the Realtek software window, one for playback devices and one for recording devices. Click it, and turn on the "multi track recording" (or something to that effect).
You have to do that in order for your input to not overlap with the audio output.
I'd give you the correct locations/names but I'm booted into Linux right now. But you'll find it. Wrench icon, multi something-or-other.
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That almost seems to have done it. BF2's in-game still isn't recognizing when i'm talking. At least, apparently not. I try to do the basic mic tests and it's apparently not getting any signal.
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To me this sounds like you have the mic settings in playback and recording unmuted. To have it work properly you have to make sure that your audio settings have your Mic muted in playback and selected in recording devices. You should also make sure that the audio card you use is selected as the audio device and not the generic windows device (not sure what it's called). You can get to your audio properties from the control panel. The next problem is some games will automatically switch your recording device when it starts up and this may screw sh*t up again, TF2 is a prime example of this so watch out for that.
So First step is to check that your default setup outside the game is the way I described above than start up the game and make sure it stays that way by alt tabbing out or something like that. On board sound can really suck for this sort of stuff, so good luck with it all.
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Wow. This is ludicriously infuriating. I've done what both of you suggested, and still BF2 no likey. I can test the mic, and hear myself, somewhat dimly, and the mic send threshold bar has absolutely no jump. C'est la vie I guess.
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Vista or XP? Vista's pretty much a clusterf*** when it comes to audio, with lots of stuff deliberately disabled so that you can't record your own output. You might be a thief, after all, so you shouldn't have full access to your audio hardware.
XP still. This is all quite a bit silly, I have to say. Maybe it's just BF2. I have been playing with some mods recently.
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