Push To Talk causing freezing and stuttering

[Eminent Demon]

Its happening in practically every game I play, day of defeat, left 4 dead, half life, counter strike. Whenever im in game, whether it be online of single player, and i press the "push to talk key" normally "F" the game freezes for one second, and i have no idea why. I've updated all my drivers, restarted steam, got the drivers specifically for my system, turned off exclusive mode in microphone properties, but nothing is working. I have never had this issue before, i ran a malwarebytes scan and found nothing, and windows is up to date. I see several threads of this but no solutions, what can i do?

[Iceira]

Discord have self test, so do skype, you might want to test there, besure you have newest sound card Driver even that can help sometime.

[Eminent Demon]

引用自 |<- Iceira ->|：

Discord have self test, so do skype, you might want to test there, besure you have newest sound card Driver even that can help sometime.

It only happens when im playing games...

[Iceira]

you are missing so many information , bandwide to a pc that dont have resource issue.

feel free to scan and optimized all driver and bios update.

reduce steam setting, to test if its your pc dont like them. ask own game forum

test with other hardware even. im sure your friend might help you test with it.

try see it as ruleout and try proof its steam only issue,

do note this is a user forum , we are not support here and we are not steam white defender.

Gather proof to write to steam support , and claim fix your sound issue in game, takes time.

[Eminent Demon]

引用自 |<- Iceira ->|：

you are missing so many information , bandwide to a pc that dont have resource issue.

feel free to scan and optimized all driver and bios update.

reduce steam setting, to test if its your pc dont like them. ask own game forum

test with other hardware even. im sure your friend might help you test with it.

try see it as ruleout and try proof its steam only issue,

do note this is a user forum , we are not support here and we are not steam white defender.

Gather proof to write to steam support , and claim fix your sound issue in game, takes time.

Heres enough proof

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4I5Z5ty5G8

[Iceira]

Do as you wish , i wont call a youtube video proof. contact steam with it.
we are not hear to prevent you from contacting steam support, but with no data or proof i bet they will say we cant help or we dont make sound drivers.

but if they do screw access to it , then you will be right, but im sure in my point they dont make any sound card driver and they never will, they use what system tell them.

[Iceira]

proof is skype work discord work system selftest work.

i mean im sure you have seen sounds settings in Friends & Chat ( output device )

then steam suppport will look investigate this even further , most tech person will say whats going on here. and send it to tech department , most will not say user own mistake then it work 3 other place with echo test in skype and Discord selftest and windows own sound check.
if this is what you mean then you might be on to something.
and problem is also many use maybe discord or skype or other ventrilo app and not steam own so they dont know.

and do have newest sound card driver install. not the first time a dxdiag tell a tech person newest driver not install and that is why.

[Eminent Demon]

Only solution i came up with is if you have sound setting window open while playing the game. Again there are countless threads with this issue, over hundreds. It seems once you get this issue, you're screwed. A clean install of windows 10 didn't even fix the issue for me.

[Eminent Demon]

引用自 UberFiend：

If you go into Sound Settings Properties, Additional Device Properties, under the Advanced tab is 'Allow apps to take exclusive control' and 'give exclusive apps priority' checked on?

And if you're using Steam Overlay (or other IGO) try not.

Yes having them checked on or off did nothing for me

[Iceira]

We assume you have game requirement or have more then enough, but as i said before if system dont have resource to handle it then thinhgs like that is seen before even OC pc can cause such. my point is all of those games is seen as past gen games and we dont even think on what if you have a old pc in top of this.

because you just told us even a reinstall OS did not help. and thats not good.
and im sure even UberFiend agree on that.

feel ftree to update all driver and bios, and do test with skype echo test and discord selftest and windows system test, maybe steam do have own ingame issue , 2 user complain atm over same thingy, dont mean its same but why not.

reduce steam settings to see if steam takes to much recource away from your hardware.

send steam support a ticket , could also be a good idea.

[Eminent Demon]

引用自 |<- Iceira ->|：

We assume you have game requirement or have more then enough, but as i said before if system dont have resource to handle it then thinhgs like that is seen before even OC pc can cause such. my point is all of those games is seen as past gen games and we dont even think on what if you have a old pc in top of this.

because you just told us even a reinstall OS did not help. and thats not good.
and im sure even UberFiend agree on that.

feel ftree to update all driver and bios, and do test with skype echo test and discord selftest and windows system test, maybe steam do have own ingame issue , 2 user complain atm over same thingy, dont mean its same but why not.

reduce steam settings to see if steam takes to much recource away from your hardware.

send steam support a ticket , could also be a good idea.

I did send steam a video and ticket of the issue. I also went on forums that are being flooded with people having this issue. Reddit, github, guru3d, tomshardware just to name a few. People are saying we just have to wait for the next steam update to fix it, but as far as i know that may never happen. As of right now i do have a temporary fix that i have been telling others, if you type in "sound" and have the "recording" windows open in the background, you will not have this issue.

[Iceira]

Yeah , but you know how it is sound and output device so many do mistake in this and thats why i mention skype/discord/windows system selftest, aient funny get reply from any real support place for thing you should have tested in the first place or install newest Sound driver,
if you notice there is only Friends & chat with sound settings rest is from system, so steam most have done something wrong sense more and more get ingame sound issue.
its like the point at wrong layer or output device, and even that should be impossible.

but i bet if you mention all of this.

try safe boot mode also , so you dont have interference issue from other app, even that is fare fetch out, but who knows. but again most will say work all other places then it seem to be a steam ingame steam sound issue.

and maybe thats why steam devs have hard to understand it ,they dont make driver and they dont have any thing other then use windows system , what is there.

ps.
you could also say steam have lost its Resources down the road with all the change and ingame sound over network is the cause , they cant deliver it, even that is possible.
broken app, to proof this is hard , depend on each person network in top of this.
do not have wifi or vpn and have nearest dl sever if this is not routed to nearset steam server or follow DL connection again only steam have the card on the hands here.

dont forgt that sound is data and goes though what to where automatic nearest or user DL server across the other part of globe, just because i have a idea dont make it so only steam knows here.

nice new steam guide about it
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/7DD6-C783-D141-A720

steam ports ( im sure steam sounds use one of them ) just in case you dont use NAT Router or block it through windows firewall, most never had any issue with this but just incase some do.
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/2EA8-4D75-DA21-31EB