Voip refuses to work

[Mickel83]

I had this game for awhile, but really hadent played it much. Around 20 hours and let the game sat (Many updates ago). It was working just fine than, and had no problems.

When I reinstalled the game, to play it aging. Voip (Other Players Talking) didnt work, at all. I treid every setting, and combinations of settings. But nothing worked.

I cant really play the game without it.

[Mickel83]

Just figured out my mic is dead. That might be the reason, but I dont know why the game takes away the ablity to hear other players, if you had no mic.

I have to use my laptop for awhile. That why I didnt know its built-in-mic was dead. I dont really use it.

[SeregSul]

I had the same issue some days ago, when i started to play the game.
I was unable to hear any voices and my mic wasn't working, too.

I could solve the issue by enabling app access to the microphone (Windows 10).

1.) Right click on windows 10 startmenu icon
2.) Click on settings
3.) Click on privacy
4.) On the left side, click on the microphone entry
5.) Then click on the "Change"-button below "Microphone access for this device is off" and choose "on".
6.) Switch "Allow apps to access your microphone" to on.


Also it's maybe an option to check the Steam VOIP Settings.

1.) Open "Friends & Chat"
2.) Click on the gear icon the the top right corner.
3.) Then click on voice.
4.) Choose your input and output device and start the microphone test.


After this i was able to hear voices from other players and my mic was working too.
Without the first part, and a restart of Steam, my mic wasn't working in the "Friends & Chat", too.

[Mickel83]

Cant this laptop still has "some settings is mangeded by your organization", telling me I cant change that setting.

On my desktop I fixed that with homegroup, which the now removed form windows, so use have to use One ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Drive (Got put it in th cloud).

I cant seem to figure out how fix it without homegroup, but I try.

or move to Linux, and ♥♥♥♥ Microsoft

[SeregSul]

If you have Windows 10 Pro installed and the computer is a member of a domain, the option to remove the computer from the domain should be still available.

If your user account is a domain account you may loose access to it if you follow the next steps.
So follow them only if you are 100% sure that the user account you are using is your own local account.

1.) Open the file explorer ( "windows key" + "e" )
2.) Right click on "This PC" and click on "Manage".
3.) Beside your computername, click on "Change settings"
4.) In the new windows click on "Change" ( Tab: Computername )
5.) Your computer should be still a member of the Domain, so choose "Workgroup" and enter an name.
6.) Click on "OK" and reboot the computer.

To do this you will need to have administration permissions.

If your computer was already removed from the domain and is already a member of a workgroup and the settings are still managed by the organization then try following.

( The gpupdate command tries to query new/updated group policy objects from the domain server of the organization. The command is also able to remove old group policy objects. )

1.) Right click on the Startmenu icon
2.) Click on "Windows PowerShell(Administrator)"
3.) Type in the blue Powershell window following command: "gpupdate /force" (without the " characters) and confirm with a press of the enter key. This may take a short moment to complete, after this try to reboot the computer.

[Mickel83]

I dont have Pro, and the powershell command didnt work(The command worked, but didnt fix the problem). Although, I had completely forgoten about useing powershell/cmd, so Im going to try to find another way to fix it.

And thank you, for all this work you've been doing.

[The First Breed]

Ever since i got Vive vr my pc connects my input audio to "Steam streaming microphone" on nearly every appication. I don't have the vr connected anymore yet the problem persists. In this game i have to manually designate my input device because it will set itself of Steam streaming mircophone. Don't know if this helps anyone. gl

[Mickel83]

Originally posted by The First Breed:

Ever since i got Vive vr my pc connects my input audio to "Steam streaming microphone" on nearly every appication. I don't have the vr connected anymore yet the problem persists. In this game i have to manually designate my input device because it will set itself of Steam streaming mircophone. Don't know if this helps anyone. gl

Windows is forceing my micrphone off, and I cant get it to it turn on. But, still thank you.

[Luckee | HK11]

Originally posted by SeregSul:

I could solve the issue by enabling app access to the microphone (Windows 10).

1.) Right click on windows 10 startmenu icon
2.) Click on settings
3.) Click on privacy
4.) On the left side, click on the microphone entry
5.) Then click on the "Change"-button below "Microphone access for this device is off" and choose "on".
6.) Switch "Allow apps to access your microphone" to on.

This fixed my issue. I manually set it to off since I don't use any of those apps listed in the privacy > microphone settings menu