Mic doesn't work in game

[HardCore Nightmare]

I've been struggling with this for the past week, my microphone works on all applications, and in steam chat, but when I try to use it in game, I have to shout so people can hear me. I have tested the mic in steam chat, (when you open the settings panel in friends menu), but when I try to test it in in-game voice, nothing. Its not the game settings itself, because all the game I play that support voice chat have the same issue, there's something im missing in steam. All help is appreciated.

[AtmaDarkwolf]

couple things to try.

First up, check if steam chat is using it (if so either use steam chat instead, or disable steam chat voice and then try to adjust it in-game.

If windows too, its highly likely (since u say it happens with multiple games) it is a windows related issue, so might have to do all your mic sensitivity, volume, noise cancellation, mic boost, etc etc, via windows built in menus and NOT via the game (or rather, work from bottom up, starting with windows functions BEFORE you attempt to adjust it in the game themselves) since most games will just go and grab and use whatever settings windows itself uses.

[HardCore Nightmare]

Before anything, thanks for the reply, its the first bit of info that wasn't "update drivers", second, steam chat works, I've used the test mic feature and heard my voice playback perfectly. The real issue arises when trying to use that same mic in-game. I'm certain its steam because when I go into the "in-game voice" setting (Everything is maxed out) and test my mic there, I can't get any playback unless I shout. If, like you said, there's a way to disable the steam voice settings, could you help me with that. Again, thanks for the info.

[AtmaDarkwolf]

HardCore NIghtmare の投稿を引用：

Before anything, thanks for the reply, its the first bit of info that wasn't "update drivers", second, steam chat works, I've used the test mic feature and heard my voice playback perfectly. The real issue arises when trying to use that same mic in-game. I'm certain its steam because when I go into the "in-game voice" setting (Everything is maxed out) and test my mic there, I can't get any playback unless I shout. If, like you said, there's a way to disable the steam voice settings, could you help me with that. Again, thanks for the info.

yea this is why i said disable steam chat when testing. Seems steam has its own hooks that adjust values (IE controllers, mic, speakers even) itself outside of the windows environment (Esp since recently steam has been trying to find ways to make steam client its own actual operating system to work on the steam deck)

So basically u deny steam (client) access to the mic, so that the game can actually get the hooks itself to the os. (OR if there is a way, send support ticket to steam so that they know to make steam client provide access to its configs to the game being run)

Once steam's audio options are disabled (At least mic access, might have to uncheck the 'use mic' option in the most simple way) the game should read from actual windows settings (Which I figure it is, windows volume levels are wonky and always have been)

Then go into actual windows settings and adjust volumes there(and hint mic boost will give a massive volume boost to mic so u might need to turn it down once enabled)

[Tilia]

Hi dude, saw you post today, i had exaclty the same issue. Did you figure it out?