Where has the steam voice setting gone

[Banditoes]

me and my friend have both got the most recent version of steam and we cant find "voice" anymore in steam --> settings can anyone help

[Omega]

Friend list > Settings (Gear icon at the top right side)

[Banditoes]

thank you!

[Cooby]

I have been searching this thing for a decade. Thank you so much.

[ramDisk.muzak]

Originally posted by Omega:

Friend list > Settings (Gear icon at the top right side)

Configuring the settings in the Friends list does not enable it for the game. I think you still need to configure it in the Settings > Voice panel. Been two days, still can't get my mic to work. Thinking aobut giving up on Steam.

[Jack Schitt]

Originally posted by Neya:

Originally posted by Omega:

Friend list > Settings (Gear icon at the top right side)

Configuring the settings in the Friends list does not enable it for the game. I think you still need to configure it in the Settings > Voice panel. Been two days, still can't get my mic to work. Thinking aobut giving up on Steam.

I don't see a "Voice Panel" section in Settings. Are you saying it's not working in a specific game? The settings should be in that game. If they're not and it's a Valve game based off of Half Life written on the Steam Engine (SDK)...

For any valve game activate and pull up the Console and type:
voice_enable 1
This turns voice chat on. Replacing the 1 with a 0 (zero) turns it off.

voice_scale 10
Turns the voice receive volume up to 10. I believe but I'm not sure it will go all the way up to 100 but it might.

voice_autogain 1
Enables mic "boost" that enhances the volume. 0 (zero) turns it off.

You can do these settings in the developer console as I said but they're going to change back to whater the game defaults them as when you leave the game. To insure they stay where you set them you can make an autoexec file. Here is an easy tool to make an autoexec.cfg file. It's intended for CS:GO but the settings are general for all Valve/Steam games:
https://autoexec.global-offensive.com/

If the game you want to fix is not CS:GO I would not use all of the settings I would edit the file that tool makes to only include the settings I want/need. Some of these commands will cause a huge mess and possibly stop the game from working if you use game-specific commands for a game they're not designed for. There are also some commands that are cheats that the VAC system will detect and ban you for using. Only use the settings you need to have corrected. It's not worth the risk messing up the game or getting VAC banned using settings you're not sure of what they are and do.

[ramDisk.muzak]

Originally posted by Jack Schitt:

Originally posted by Neya:

Configuring the settings in the Friends list does not enable it for the game. I think you still need to configure it in the Settings > Voice panel. Been two days, still can't get my mic to work. Thinking aobut giving up on Steam.

I don't see a "Voice Panel" section in Settings. Are you saying it's not working in a specific game? The settings should be in that game. If they're not and it's a Valve game based off of Half Life written on the Steam Engine (SDK)...

For any valve game activate and pull up the Console and type:
voice_enable 1
This turns voice chat on. Replacing the 1 with a 0 (zero) turns it off.

voice_scale 10
Turns the voice receive volume up to 10. I believe but I'm not sure it will go all the way up to 100 but it might.

voice_autogain 1
Enables mic "boost" that enhances the volume. 0 (zero) turns it off.

You can do these settings in the developer console as I said but they're going to change back to whater the game defaults them as when you leave the game. To insure they stay where you set them you can make an autoexec file. Here is an easy tool to make an autoexec.cfg file. It's intended for CS:GO but the settings are general for all Valve/Steam games:
https://autoexec.global-offensive.com/

If the game you want to fix is not CS:GO I would not use all of the settings I would edit the file that tool makes to only include the settings I want/need. Some of these commands will cause a huge mess and possibly stop the game from working if you use game-specific commands for a game they're not designed for. There are also some commands that are cheats that the VAC system will detect and ban you for using. Only use the settings you need to have corrected. It's not worth the risk messing up the game or getting VAC banned using settings you're not sure of what they are and do.

I agree jack. I use default .cfg files so I know the disapearance of the Voice option in the Settings panel has nothing to do with it. I think it might have something to do with a Steam update that only shows the option based on what the system detects. I have two microphones a Yeti and one that came with my soundcard. And Steam cannot detect either. I've tried disabling them one by one to see if having two microphones was the problem. But the voice panel still did not appear. I've read over two dozen posts on this subject and the most common solution is that the voice option is in the Friends list configuration panel. But I also agree that this only controls the voice communication through the friends list and not in the game. So back to my point. No one has come up with a solution to fix the missing Voice panel option in the Settings panel. If you sort posts by the past year. Most of the people having the problem started in August. So it must be related to a Steam update itself. Anyway, fingers crossed until they come out with a new update. Its unlike Steam to have a big problem like this. But am glad there are so many users with the same problem. Hopefully they will come up with a solution soon.

[Jack Schitt]

I did find a voice setting with more options including one to test the mic in Big Picture Mode settings. I'm not sure that controls in-game voice settings though it might not control anything at all or just, again, friends list voice communication. Worth trying them and launching the game in BP mode and seeing if that helps at all. I say to launch from BP mode because if you leave BP mode when messing with controller configs...it only uses your controller config from BP if you launch the game from BP.

"BP"= Big Picture

Steam has been awesome for a very long time, since it's release! I hope these new updates aren't the start of it going down hill like everything else (employment, healthcare, wages vs the costs of everything, myspace (almost completely dead now), facebook (going down!), youtube(is really starting to suck!), voice com software, Windows, IOS, sitcoms on TV) has and joining the other things that corporate morons destroyed with their stupid ideas, predictions that fail, and ugly, annoying, GUI's.

This new friends list GUI is a symptom of that illness. It's FFFFFFugly and they removed features everyone used and enjoyed for years that were easy to get to. They opened up exploits that are being abused by scammers by removing some of those features. That's a sign of them starting to suck like everything else has because of stupid, ridiculous, corporate ideas.