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TheOrangeGrape Mar 17, 2018 @ 5:41pm
mic doesn't work in games.. but works in discord
Hey.. My mic used to work just fine in everything but all of a sudden a couple weeks ago it stopped working in-game. It doesn't get picked up by any of my games and it doesn't even get piced up in the steam settings when I try to test it. It still works fine in discord but it's really annoying that it doesn't work in any of my games.. pubg, fortnite, h1z1, csgo, overwatch, rainbow six siege etc... The only fix I saw for it was to uninstall gefore experience, so I did that but it still doesn't work... any ideas.. please?
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Originally posted by zaphodikus:
^^ please mark as an accepted solution
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TheOrangeGrape Mar 18, 2018 @ 9:22am 
bump.. I uninstalled/reinstalled discord and geforce experience and it still doesn't work in anything, still not even steam. Again, still works fine in discord..
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｡༶✧༺ Vee ༻✧༶｡ Mar 18, 2018 @ 10:39am 
Right click on the speaker in the taskbar on the bottom right. Click on recording devices make sure that the mic is set to default.
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David Mar 18, 2018 @ 10:40am 
Why'd you reinstall discord?
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TheOrangeGrape Mar 18, 2018 @ 1:19pm 
Originally posted by VigorousHydro:
Right click on the speaker in the taskbar on the bottom right. Click on recording devices make sure that the mic is set to default.
yeah it's the only available mic and it's picking up from there and it's picking up in discord, but not picking up in steam or in any games..
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TheOrangeGrape Mar 18, 2018 @ 1:20pm 
Originally posted by Gordy Freeman (Master Race Geek):
Why'd you reinstall discord?
to talk with friends..? Even when it was uninstalled it didn't fix anything either
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Mio Rin Mar 23, 2018 @ 7:13pm 
Uncheck "Allow programs to take exclusive control..." in the microphone settings in Windows. (under the volume widget in system tray).
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TheOrangeGrape Mar 24, 2018 @ 8:54pm 
Originally posted by Miorin:
Uncheck "Allow programs to take exclusive control..." in the microphone settings in Windows. (under the volume widget in system tray).
still doesn't pick up anything on steam/games... works fine in discord and shows it's picking up noise... but nothing in steam or any games... it used to work just fine but for some reason just stopped working a couple weeks ago.. any other suggestions? :(
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KeMiX Apr 22, 2018 @ 8:52pm 
still nothing? Having issues with my mic, too :/
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TheOrangeGrape Apr 22, 2018 @ 10:05pm 
Originally posted by Base Form KeMiX:
still nothing? Having issues with my mic, too :/
Nothing with my headset mic (astros) but i switched to my blue snowball and that works fine in game... so i just switch between them for when i need to use them in game...
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Ronny Jun 10, 2018 @ 9:08am 
Originally posted by ND | TheOrangeGrape:
Originally posted by Base Form KeMiX:
still nothing? Having issues with my mic, too :/
Nothing with my headset mic (astros) but i switched to my blue snowball and that works fine in game... so i just switch between them for when i need to use them in game...
Darn, I have the same problem :(
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zaphodikus Jun 10, 2018 @ 2:13pm 
set your mic to be the "default recording device" in control panel.

If your problem has been solved anyplace above already, please mark the psot that answers it as a correct answer.
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TheOrangeGrape Jun 11, 2018 @ 6:42pm 
yeah it is default, and it's the only available device, still doesn't work though, so i just have to plug in my blue snowball if i want to talk in game
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zaphodikus Jun 12, 2018 @ 10:16am 
"Preferred communications device" overrides the default recording device profile if the game/app queries a different profile I suspe t. That may explain why the Mic does not work in some games. I'll bet this is pretty common and a bit more googling will let you use the Mic in the headset. Might be possible to get an idea by working out which apps the Mic works with and which it does not work with.

Sorry only time I have Mic issues is when I forget to enable Mic boosr and also to push the internal driver custom volume setting all the way up to max in device manager.
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TheOrangeGrape Jun 12, 2018 @ 10:52am 
Originally posted by zaphodikus:
"Preferred communications device" overrides the default recording device profile if the game/app queries a different profile I suspe t. That may explain why the Mic does not work in some games. I'll bet this is pretty common and a bit more googling will let you use the Mic in the headset. Might be possible to get an idea by working out which apps the Mic works with and which it does not work with.

Sorry only time I have Mic issues is when I forget to enable Mic boosr and also to push the internal driver custom volume setting all the way up to max in device manager.
It doesn't work in any game, and it is the prefered device, it's the only available device, but it doesn't work in game anymore.



Originally posted by AustrAlien2010:
What are you doing installing Discord? You don't even need that.
to talk with friends..? lol?
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zaphodikus Jun 13, 2018 @ 12:19am 
Um, what is your mic pluged into? a graphics card? Geforce experience is a dog, but should not have had any impact on that at all.

Tell us more about your problematic mic.
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