steam voice chats won't work please help (trying to fix a problem with my discord ones)

[clossaloak]

my discord is screwed up for the moment and I'm trying to get it fixed but while that is happening I tried using steam vc but that won't work eitehr

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Open sound settings for windows, check your microphone see what is selected, ensure it default to the mic you want to use, then launch Steam/Discord, if not working then open sound settings for the app, and ensure you select your default, or mic you want to use.

Otherwise can press start button on windows, click power key, and choose restart, not shutdown, you want to click restart, then see if issue fixed.

[clossaloak]

Publicado originalmente por Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Open sound settings for windows, check your microphone see what is selected, ensure it default to the mic you want to use, then launch Steam/Discord, if not working then open sound settings for the app, and ensure you select your default, or mic you want to use.

Otherwise can press start button on windows, click power key, and choose restart, not shutdown, you want to click restart, then see if issue fixed.

it's not a microphone or hearing issue, it is more of a issue on the hand that it is basically like i CAN'T connect. I think it has something to do with ports as i can't connect to game servers either, i can run chrome and all that on pc, i can connect to discord, i can chat on discord, but i can't use voice chats. i don't think im capable of using anything requiring a direct and constant connection to servers. im not sure though.
i just ran the netstat -ab command in teh cmd terminal and all the TCP ports seem to be working fine but the UDP ports are odd. it tells me like chrome.exe tried connecting to it and that it is a UDP port along with the port number but it won't tell me the ip. and with the tcp connections it says or at least i think it's saying that it is connecting to my pc, but the udp port doesn't have that

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Publicado originalmente por clossaloak:

Publicado originalmente por Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Open sound settings for windows, check your microphone see what is selected, ensure it default to the mic you want to use, then launch Steam/Discord, if not working then open sound settings for the app, and ensure you select your default, or mic you want to use.

Otherwise can press start button on windows, click power key, and choose restart, not shutdown, you want to click restart, then see if issue fixed.

it's not a microphone or hearing issue, it is more of a issue on the hand that it is basically like i CAN'T connect. I think it has something to do with ports as i can't connect to game servers either, i can run chrome and all that on pc, i can connect to discord, i can chat on discord, but i can't use voice chats. i don't think im capable of using anything requiring a direct and constant connection to servers. im not sure though.

Ah ok.


Here somethings that come to mind might worth checking out.

- Restart modem and/or router by unplugging it power, then plug it back in after a minute. If it works then means modem and/or router has issue, and just needed a restart.

- Check your modem and/or router to ensure have nothing blocked via their settings.

- If using VPN/proxy, may cause issues you're having.

- If using custom DNS service depending which one may cause issues.

- If using 3rd party software to manage apps behavior, incoming, and out going traffic, or even 3rd party anti virus affecting other apps.

- If using custom firewall, pi hole, or etc, and blocking thing could affect things, might want to look into that.

- Flushing your network might fix things, open command promt as admin, and give this a try, then restart PC and test, do things in order.

netsh winsock reset
netsh int ip reset

If not working still try these in order, then restart PC, and test.

ipconfig /release
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /renew

[clossaloak]

Publicado originalmente por Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Publicado originalmente por clossaloak:

it's not a microphone or hearing issue, it is more of a issue on the hand that it is basically like i CAN'T connect. I think it has something to do with ports as i can't connect to game servers either, i can run chrome and all that on pc, i can connect to discord, i can chat on discord, but i can't use voice chats. i don't think im capable of using anything requiring a direct and constant connection to servers. im not sure though.

Ah ok.


Here somethings that come to mind might worth checking out.

- Restart modem and/or router by unplugging it power, then plug it back in after a minute. If it works then means modem and/or router has issue, and just needed a restart.

- Check your modem and/or router to ensure have nothing blocked via their settings.

- If using VPN/proxy, may cause issues you're having.

- If using custom DNS service depending which one may cause issues.

- If using 3rd party software to manage apps behavior, incoming, and out going traffic, or even 3rd party anti virus affecting other apps.

- If using custom firewall, pi hole, or etc, and blocking thing could affect things, might want to look into that.

- Flushing your network might fix things, open command promt as admin, and give this a try, then restart PC and test, do things in order.

netsh winsock reset
netsh int ip reset

If not working still try these in order, then restart PC, and test.

ipconfig /release
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /renew

after talking with my dad for a while he finally found that it was my ♥♥♥♥♥♥ WiFi adapter phob USB thingy that i was using. since it was recent and the phob was working before i hadn't thought that it could've been that. but it was, and i wasn't using my Ethernet cable i had due to the fact that the nearby Ethernet plugs (other than the one directly into my router) weren't working so i just left it. but after a while i decided just to say ♥♥♥♥ it and try plugging it into the router that was on the ceiling and it worked. so that's done and thanks for the help.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Most cheap adapters are crap hardware, or has really bad driver issues, often a decent ones cost a bit more are likely to have little issues, but IMO going for wifi adapters that support realtek are pretty good.

Anyways I'm glad you rooted out your problem.