Mic stops working after a few minutes

[Space Wolf Hudson]

Nasty problem: Always when I'm playing NS2, my mic stops working after a few minutes. Not only for ingame voice chat but, for example, also for Teamspeak3.

Reconnecting the headset with the mic sovles the problem only for about 2 minutes until the problem appears again.

It is the first time that I experience the problem and, like I said, it happens only while playing NS2. Could it may have something to do with my (quite old) PC? The game runs with decent fps on low to medium settings but it also requires almost 100 % of my PC's performance. Could that cause something like a crash for the mic?

And yes, I already googled that problem (to the max) but I could not find any help.

I would really appreciate some possible solutions/suggestions and help

[Gimcrack]

Is this mic battery operated or otherwise wireless?

[Space Wolf Hudson]

Originally posted by Squishpoke:

Is this mic battery operated or otherwise wireless?

No, its not wireless nor battery operated. Its a Gamecom 777; it brings it's own soundcard with it though.

[[CU] phoe]

Do you know if there's any way to adjust the sample rate of the mic ? - there was a suggestion a while ago that it might be at least partly responsible for USB microphone issues.

[Space Wolf Hudson]

Originally posted by phoe:

Do you know if there's any way to adjust the sample rate of the mic ? - there was a suggestion a while ago that it might be at least partly responsible for USB microphone issues.

According to windows the mic's sampling rate is set to 44.1kHz at the moment. I will put it to 48kHz and test it (If its that what you've meant).

[[CU] phoe]

It was - hope it makes a difference for you :-)

[Space Wolf Hudson]

Originally posted by phoe:

It was - hope it makes a difference for you :-)

Unfortunateley not :( Thank you for your effort to help me though ;)

It really seems to happen only when my pc is fully occupied in bigger battles or in the later part of the match.

For example, when I've played a private match with 6 of my friends my mic was working perfectly fine, but later, on a 16 player server, it crashed again after a few minutes.

I always set the process-priority of NS2 to high in task manager, for a better framerate, maybe thats causing it.

[Stock]

It also happened to others and there is a workaround: http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/comment/2089844/#Comment_2089844

[Space Wolf Hudson]

Thx for the replies.

Found out something new: As I said, my mic brings its on soundcard with it. You connect the headset (which includes the mic) to the soundcart and then plug in the soundcard via USB to your PC. But my mic almost always stopped working while playing NS2.

Now I've found out that if I do not plug the mic into the soundcard but into the pc directly the mic does not seem to crash (played about 3 matches now and it was working fine).

So the problem is not solved yet I've found a way to move around it.

[Royal Baron]

i have the same problem with samson c01u pro right now and i think it's windows error. If anyone has fixed this error please let me know!

[[CU] phoe]

I'm a playtester for NS2, I'll let the devs know. Do you have the same problem in other games as well (which might suggest it is a Windows - or even a hardware - problem), or just NS2 ?

[[CU] phoe]

They've asked if there's any way I can get your error confirmed @Royal Baron - do you have any reproduction steps I could pass on to them, does it happen in other games, could it be a hardware fault with the microphone itself ? (feel free to add me / message me) - thanks :-)