Disable Microphone Automatic Gain Control?

[sweetaro]

Helldivers seems to be changing the volume gain setting of my microphone to the point where no one can hear me. Has anyone else experienced this and figured out a way to disable it? This affects other apps like discord as well.

I use a yeti nano mic with LG blue software enabled.

one workaround: since HD2 changes the gain of the "default comms device" only, I changed that to something not in use. This way it doesn't change my Yeti mic's settings, which I select manually in discord.

Found a reddit thread with others facing the same issue here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1gvw4xa/helldivers_2_dynamically_changing_my_mic_volume/

[Eremin]

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[Sawkøn]

I have the same problem, only in this game

[sweetaro]

I received the following response from arrowhead:

Originally posted by Arrowhead Game Studios:

Greetings Helldiver,

Thank you for your report. This issue has been reported by players who are running windows 11 after migrating from windows 10 and previously having no issues. It is something that we are aware of and are monitoring. Stay tuned to our socials as well as our Known issues article for updates at a later date. I apologise that there isn't much we can do regarding this issue currently, All we can suggest is to make sure none of the audio settings you had previously have been reverted to default.

[not_devon]

Damn, really no update to this? Every time I speak, if it is loud enough, it'll reduce the volume. This just results in it slowing reducing to near nothing over the course of a game... Only when Helldivers is on as well..? Very odd issue -- checked every automatic option in the system sound and windows 11 sound options, but nothing to fix it.

Good to know that they posted it is related to a Windows 10 --> Windows 11 conversion. That's exactly me.

[Calamango]

For context I'm running Windows 24H2 26100.
I fixed this by setting my Default Communications Device in the sound control panel to something other than my mic. In my case a device that was misidentified as a mic, then just kept my Default Device as my normal mic. I now can't talk in-game but at least a poltergeist isn't attacking my mic gain anymore.

[DeVastoR]

i would love an update on that too

[SCPeach (Math Guy)]

I sorted this out for myself and a friend at one point, make sure you have 2 enabled input devices on your audio settings on windows, take whatever one you DON'T want to use as a mix and set it to "default communications device". I cannot stress enough that is has to be "default communications device" and not "default device", keep your actual microphone as default device.
It might do some weird crap to Discord/medal if they're open but just manually set them to your mic again and it should work, did for me and my friend.

Also idk what they mean by "migrating from windows 10 to 11" because I had windows 11 on my PC already and it did this to me.