Sound Stops with Discord?

[catflower369]

Whenever I join a call on discord the sound in the game disappears. Any idea as to why that happens and how to fix it?

[Feenie]

Huh, I notice the sound goes low quality for a moment or two when on discord and then it goes back to normal after a min

This happens with Bluetooth devices usually

Try going to control panel > hardware and sound > communications

Then where it says “when windows detects communication activity” set it to do nothing

If this doesn’t work, try clicking the speaker button on the bottom right of your screen and make sure playback device is set to the one you’re using for audio output on discord.

Sometimes the Bluetooth has two audio outputs; hands free, and stereo. It has to match with discord’s to hear both.

[Feenie]

Originally posted by Feenie:

Huh, I notice the sound goes low quality for a moment or two when on discord and then it goes back to normal after a min

This happens with Bluetooth devices usually

Try going to control panel > hardware and sound > communications

Then where it says “when windows detects communication activity” set it to do nothing

If this doesn’t work, try clicking the speaker button on the bottom right of your screen and make sure playback device is set to the one you’re using for audio output on discord.

Sometimes the Bluetooth has two audio outputs; hands free, and stereo. It has to match with discord’s to hear both.

Also small recommendation, you’ll notice the game is pretty loud when on a discord call so go to the volume mixer once it works to turn down the game a bit so you can hear your friends :)

[Velvetlotus]

I have this same issue when I play world of warcraft, I found out that discord will switch my devices between my headphones and my speakers - if you're using a headset with discord and the game is running off a different sound device, that might be why. It's really annoying too because if I set discord to a specific device, I will constantly get pestered by discord with prompts to switch it back to my useless, poor sound quality speakers built in to my monitor -.-