Portal 2 mucks up microphone settings every time it starts

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Boksha

Apr 5, 2015 @ 8:35am

Portal 2 mucks up microphone settings every time it starts

Every time I start Portal 2, it does the following:
1. Enables microphone playback through my headphones. (resulting in a constant hiss in the audio and the sounds of my keyboard or me putting down my coffee mug being amplified; ugh)
2. Disables the microphone boost. (resulting in me becoming inaudible on whatever voice chat program I have open)

I then have to alt-tab and put my microphone settings back to normal in the Windows volume control before I can play.

Why? How do I stop it from doing these stupid things?

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Noxium

Apr 5, 2015 @ 8:36am

me french

Boksha

Jan 16, 2016 @ 3:04pm

Hello Boksha. I have this problem with Portal 2 changing my microphone settings every time I start the game too! I came across this thread when Googling for a solution. Did you ever manage to get it fixed?

Boksha

Jan 16, 2016 @ 5:09pm

Hi Boksha. Sorry to disappoint, but I never managed to get it fixed either. I even tried editing my config file, but Portal 2 immediately overwrites it with the bad settings when starting the game. It seems Portal 2's audio configuration code is just horribly b0rked and Valve never bothered to fix it. :-(

冰淇淋

Jul 4, 2019 @ 12:22pm

have you found a solution?

Boksha

Jul 4, 2019 @ 12:24pm

I have not, sadly.

gru

Jul 4, 2019 @ 2:06pm

Sorry to necro but have you tried making it read only after editing the file?

Boksha

Jul 4, 2019 @ 2:39pm

It's been almost 4 years, so I don't remember. I very much doubt that would do anything other than preventing Portal 2 from saving the config file though. Messing up your microphone settings at the OS level is very likely done before the game saves the config file.