No audio on Bluetooth Headphones

[DoctorDastardly]

I'm a couch PC gamer, and I like to use bluetooth headphones for gaming. I use a pair of Everest Elite 750 NCs, and there is no audio in-game on them. Everything else works, and when I turn them off, the audio comes through my television. I had this issue with the first Doom (2016) as well, and just didn't use headphones. What gives? Why do my headphones only not work on these two games?

[Hatecaster]

Same issue; except I found where it's going. It's going to the 'ag audio' bit, aka it's going to the thing you use to talk to people over the phone with, not to the actual high quality bluetooth audio.

Weird.

[Metallicock]

Originally posted by Hatecaster:

Same issue; except I found where it's going. It's going to the 'ag audio' bit, aka it's going to the thing you use to talk to people over the phone with, not to the actual high quality bluetooth audio.

Weird.

So how do you fix it?

[Omega (M)]

Did you disable entirely your microphone audio input (hands-free in Windows settings)? This happened to me on Halo MCC, check to see if that works for you

[ryanttb]

Any new info on this? I just installed. And when I start Doom Eternal with Bose Bluetooth Headphones on the intro animation has sound but, when the main menu shows, the headphones switch to headset mode (I can hear it, external sounds are more prominent b/c the mic is on) but the game itself no longer emits sound. :'(

[Madison Avenue]

Same issue with me, using the Sony MX series.
Update: For whatever reason, the game automatically switches from Stereo Driver to Handsfree Driver right after the Bethesda splash screen ends. This causes the audio quality to decrease significantly, and so far I haven't found a way to stop this change.

[Madison Avenue]

Originally posted by Omega (M):

Did you disable entirely your microphone audio input (hands-free in Windows settings)? This happened to me on Halo MCC, check to see if that works for you

This seems like it would work, but I'm not going to do that because I have to use Zoom for work every day, and it's too tedious to enable/disable things just because a game isn't programmed correctly.

[ryanttb]

Originally posted by Omega (M):

Did you disable entirely your microphone audio input (hands-free in Windows settings)? This happened to me on Halo MCC, check to see if that works for you

I also don't want to disable it, however, I tried it and it did not seem to help. The game still lost sound at the menu. Maybe there are two places to disable?

[Jhinius]

this problem also seems to affect the fps of the game aswell, previously i had 100+fps on the menu screen, but ever since i bought a bluetooth dongle and connected my headset to it my fps barely exceeds 30

[lukecalvert62]

Ii know it's been like year, and I hate to resurrect a zombie thread, but this came up when I ran into the same problem, and I managed to fix it.

Start > Sound Settings > Manage Sound Devices > Disable Hands-Free AG Audio as *BOTH* an Input and an Output

Hope this helps folks

[WookieMage]

@lukecalvert62 Thanks so much for replying to this with a solution. I was tearing my hair out and your suggestion worked.

[IvanElGrand]

@lukecalvert62 You are a lifesaver man this was happening with both Halo MCC and Doom for me.

[pensacola21]

@lukecalvert62 Wanted to chime in and say this 100% works. I tried several standard fixes like disabling push to talk and nothing worked. Very annoying. Disabling AG audio as an output device fixed it right away. Thanks very much

[badusername]

thanks OMEGA (M) this works. easy and fast.

"Did you disable entirely your microphone audio input (hands-free in Windows settings)? This happened to me on Halo MCC, check to see if that works for you"

[luhbaer]

Thank you, this worked!

[Lanctus]

Bud, you don't know how crazy I was going trying to fix this. Appreciate you, whoever you may be. Well-earned.