USB Microphone not working.

[Costa Rica's Army]

Hello, I am gonna be very direct with this:

I have tried everything, like, searched the forums upside-down for a solution for my USB microphone. From here, to Reddit, random google pages, and also to periscope's guide for it. Nothing seems to work.

I know very well the game has some microphone issues when it comes to USB, though I have also read this has been even since Squad and so.

t this point, I got no idea what to do... I hope periscope may read this, or at least address the issue and perhaps put a fair warning on the store page that some mics do not work well with this game.

[nolaJeff]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2671047975

[Costa Rica's Army]

Originally posted by nolaJeff:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2671047975

Hi, Jeff. Your guide was one of the very first things that I tried out, but nothing nonetheless.

[nolaJeff]

Sorry to hear that. Have you tried disabling every device except your mic and headphones? Windows will have no choice but to use the two devices at that point.

[Costa Rica's Army]

Originally posted by nolaJeff:

Sorry to hear that. Have you tried disabling every device except your mic and headphones? Windows will have no choice but to use the two devices at that point.

Yeah, I also just took the moment to uninstall all the audio deices, select one again the mic and headset only. Cleared the cache of the game too.

[nolaJeff]

That's strange. What brand and model mic or headset do you have?

[Costa Rica's Army]

Originally posted by nolaJeff:

That's strange. What brand and model mic or headset do you have?

My headset is an RIG HD800. The microphone's cable that came with it sadly got damanged, so I changed to this EGM-04 ELEGIANT[www.elegiants.com].

Works great on anything else, just not on PS.

[nolaJeff]

So are you using the headset as speakers and the EGM-04 as the mic? Or are you using desktop speakers with the mic?

I'm just wondering if the headset is overriding the stand alone mic.

[Costa Rica's Army]

Originally posted by nolaJeff:

So are you using the headset as speakers and the EGM-04 as the mic? Or are you using desktop speakers with the mic?

I'm just wondering if the headset is overriding the stand alone mic.

Yeah, pretty much. I am using the headset as the speaker and the stand alone mic as such. The rest of the devices, even the headset mic, are disabled. So, it shouldn't be using the headset mic, but who knows... I am gonna try and talk through my headset mic and see if anyone can hear me, that would be weird.

[Costa Rica's Army]

Originally posted by nolaJeff:

So are you using the headset as speakers and the EGM-04 as the mic? Or are you using desktop speakers with the mic?

I'm just wondering if the headset is overriding the stand alone mic.

Alright, so I tried what I said above, but nothing so far.

[nolaJeff]

Originally posted by Costa Rica's army:

Originally posted by nolaJeff:

So are you using the headset as speakers and the EGM-04 as the mic? Or are you using desktop speakers with the mic?

I'm just wondering if the headset is overriding the stand alone mic.

Alright, so I tried what I said above, but nothing so far.

Just to troubleshoot, unplug your headset completely. Setup your audio to come through desktop speakers (assuming you have some). Keep your EGM-04 as default input device and get into a game and ask squad mates for a mic check.

[Costa Rica's Army]

Originally posted by nolaJeff:

Originally posted by Costa Rica's army:

Alright, so I tried what I said above, but nothing so far.

Just to troubleshoot, unplug your headset completely. Setup your audio to come through desktop speakers (assuming you have some). Keep your EGM-04 as default input device and get into a game and ask squad mates for a mic check.

Alright, I tried such as much as possible, since now my game is crashing after getting into the match, when the map loaded. Already tested my PC with other games that consume almost all the resources and no crash... So, I take this is now a Post Scriptum problem itself. Also, I have deleted the cache folder manually and cleaned the cache with the in-game option too, but nothing... Also checked the in-game files. The game out of the blue started doing this.

Anyhow, to stick to the mic issue, nothing so far. I even went as far to disable the in-built audio device of my PC. Windows also shows me that the last time that PS used the mic, was almost a month ago, yet still did not work back then.

I do not like reaching to this, but I am going to format my PC and see how it goes. It's been a while, anyway.

[Costa Rica's Army]

Alright, so, I enabled audio again and the game stopped crashing after that. Anyway, I will still format the PC from scratch and see how it goes. Though, to be honest...low hopes!

[Costa Rica's Army]

Originally posted by nolaJeff:

Originally posted by Costa Rica's army:

Alright, so I tried what I said above, but nothing so far.

Just to troubleshoot, unplug your headset completely. Setup your audio to come through desktop speakers (assuming you have some). Keep your EGM-04 as default input device and get into a game and ask squad mates for a mic check.

Alright, found the solution.

So, I checked my microphone page and realized that it is advertised for 24 bit of bitrate. Windows always set it to 16bit. When I changed it to 24bit, since the option was offered by windows, windows told me for some reason that there was an application using the mic. I clicked to change it anyway and...that was it!

Unsure why this did not work at first, but glad that it is over.

[nolaJeff]

That's a strange thing to have to set in order to get it working, but glad you're finally able to use your mic.

[Horebos]

Have you gone to your Sounds > Recording and then selected your main microphone as the default one?
Cause my PC set my webcam as my default mic...