Mic Becomes Disabled in Game for PC

[Mr Cool Kid]

Whenever I launch Helldivers 2 my mic suddenly stops working across my PC. On Discord no sound is transmitted to the call I'm in and when I try to test the mic on other things with the game open they all act as if my mic was muted and I don't know how to fix this. I've tried relaunching the game but that doesn't work and even changing mic settings does nothing. Some help would be greatly appreciated.

[Grenade Cricket]

Bump cause this is still a thing. My system shows my mic is picking up my voice, but HD2 refuses to.

[Posh Octavia]

me too, its only happened after the patch

[CedesCraven]

This started to happen to me with the latest patch. I am using SteelSeries headphones.

[DwarfVader]

My Mic still works in out of game programs, like Discord just fine... but the game gets no audio from my Mic at all since the patch. (I'm Steam/Linux)

[Narr0wM1nd]

There is some new voice bugs. I also noticed the I have the voice icon lit next to me when others are speaking.

[Sabrehawk]

bluetooth device by any chance?

[DwarfVader]

Originally posted by Sabrehawk:

bluetooth device by any chance?

Not in my case...

[EZ Almighty]

I'm on a Steam Deck and the evening before PATCH 01.000.400 my headset microphone was working fine. Once I updated the game, it no longer picked up any sounds from my mic. I've tried wired and Bluetooth headsets that all work in other apps and games, but no longer work in HD2.

[AoD_lexandro]

Check windows 11 control panel option for your microphone. It may need you to authorise the game to use your microphone.

[BUZZKILL]

Originally posted by AoD_lexandro:

Check windows 11 control panel option for your microphone. It may need you to authorise the game to use your microphone.

Can you be a bit more specific? Cuz this is happening to me and my friends as well

[Canine]

Yep same issue and yes its authorized in windows 11 control panel.

[Eocene]

Same problem, running the game in Linux under Proton.

Mic worked fine before in-game, post-patch it doesn't anymore. Still works fine outside the game.

[DapperDeeds]

I had something similar where my mic stopped working in HD2 but it would work in every other application. I found a fix for mine but it may not work for you.

Windows, type change system sound, click the playback tab, scroll down and find what your headset is labeled as (mine was Realtek(R). Set that as your default and reopen Helldivers 2. The bad thing is I have to do this every time I open the game but it allows my mic to be heard

[Kamikaze_Kiwi]

My gear: Arctis 7 SS.

I've tried the System Sound route and my mic is still not working along with HD2 settings and any other Windows setting and still not working.. anyone else going through this?

[CedesCraven]

I am also using Arctis 7. Mic works in all other programs except HD2 after patch.

I've looked at Windows permissions, windows sound settings to make sure my device was default (checked playback and recording tabs), even enabled Sonar (someone online said this worked for them) all with no luck.

Windows, Discord, SteelSeries GG, and other games recognize/registers my mic but not HD2.