Bad audio with airpods?

[Sensual Pleasures]

I've tried disabling my mic, disabling hands free telephony and setting them to my primary output device, but nothing helps. The audio in game is like it's underwater and sounds terrible, every other game/app is fine on my pc. Any ideas? Thanks!

[paranormalny666]

+1

[RikerTNG]

+1

[Carlton Banks]

Anyone found a solution yet?

[Wayfarer]

BUMP.

[Ash Ketchup]

I also got the same issue. Disabled the microphone and everything, but it seems that helldiver is always connected to the microphone

[The Council of Elrond]

I was having an issue with the sound completely muting with my computer when I used my Airpods and Helldivers at the same time. I found a reddit post however with some instructions for fixing it and it worked for me. Pasting it below. Hope it works for you all!

"FYI, Handsfree Telephoney re-enables after you restart your computer (at least it does for me, using a Sony WH-1000xm5). To get around this, you can instead disable the Bluetooth Audio Gateway Service.

In your search bar, type Services and open the Services app. Find Bluetooth Audio Gateway Service. Stop the service, then right click and go to properties, change the Startup type to Disabled. This way, the service will remain disabled when you restart your pc.

From what I've read disabling this service is effectively turning off all Handsfree Telephony on your pc. For me, the "Handsfree telephony" is still enabled on my headset if I go to the devices and printers setting page, but its still effectively disabled since you've turned off that service.

Therefore, I no longer get compressed audio when I reboot my computer with my bluetooth headphones. Hope this helped yall!"

[Carnage99]

I was using a controller with a headset and was having the same problem 🤷‍♂️

[Codewow]

Specifically disabling the Audio INPUT Hands-Free device should allow the game to pass-through audio to the headphones in Stereo mode. You will, however, need to use an alternate device for communications.