Bluetooth headphones - Voice chat disrupts game sound

[alexarcanus]

I've tried searching these forums \ the web, but I haven't found something, was hoping someone might have some insight.

I use a bluetooth headset while gaming. It installs 1 recording device (headset), and 2 playback devices (headset and headphones). The headset device is single channel phone audio quality, the headphones are 2 channel CD quality (i.e. headphones are much better quality).

The game I am playing (Ark) has a push to talk feature. When I have the playback device set as the headphones, the game audio cuts while i am speaking. If I have the playback device set as the headset (which is not good sound), the game sounds do not cut out while I speak.

Is there a way to set the playback devide as the headphones without having the sound cut when I speak?

[Revelene]

Under your sound settings, under the communications tab, see what it is set to.

[alexarcanus]

Originally posted by Revelene:

Under your sound settings, under the communications tab, see what it is set to.

Thank you for the response.

I have that setting set as "do nothing" so it *should* not be disrupting the other sound.

[Revelene]

Originally posted by alexarcanus:

Originally posted by Revelene:

Under your sound settings, under the communications tab, see what it is set to.

Thank you for the response.

I have that setting set as "do nothing" so it *should* not be disrupting the other sound.

Then it may have the two seperate devices under playback for a reason. It may not be able to transmit mic and audio playback at the same time, if the audio playback is past a certain frequency. Could be a limitation with the headset.

Hard to say, without knowing the headset being used.

[alexarcanus]

Originally posted by Revelene:

Originally posted by alexarcanus:

Thank you for the response.

I have that setting set as "do nothing" so it *should* not be disrupting the other sound.

Then it may have the two seperate devices under playback for a reason. It may not be able to transmit mic and audio playback at the same time, if the audio playback is past a certain frequency. Could be a limitation with the headset.

Hard to say, without knowing the headset being used.

Again, thank you for the response.

I have come across the following link, which describes the problem I have perfectly. According to that discussion, it's a Windows 10 problem.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-networking/bluetooth-headset-sound-quality-turned-bad-after/ea62bba6-d319-4133-8b2b-6a95b41f3c29

I'm hoping there's a setting buried somwhere that I'm just missing, and someone else may know what that setting is.