Blutooth Speakers Stop Working In Steam Games. (Please Help Going Crazy)

[LieutenantLanza]

I have recently purchesed a bluetooth speaker to play steam games with rich sound. I custom built my PC, not realizing i didnt have bluetooth support. I purchesed a UBS bluetooth adaptor from bestbuy. Its manufacture is "Rocketfish". Everything is set up properly, as far as i know, because for youtube videos/music it works great. However, once i start up steam, and pick a game to play, there is NO sound what so ever. This can even happen when im playing music from say itunes in the background. I can still hear itunes, but my game has no sound. Even with nothing running in the background, there is no sound once i play a steam game. I tested with NON steam games, such as wow, and other games work fine. I installed the driver disk that came with the UBS blueooth adaptor. Im really not sure whats going on, what steam is doing to make it not work, but its very frustrating. Any help is much appricated.

This is the speaker -
http://www.amazon.com/Bose-SoundLink-Bluetooth-Wireless-Speaker/dp/B005KFONIU


This is the adaptor -
http://www.rocketfishproducts.com/products/computer-accessories/RF-MRBTAD.html
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My computer is a custom build, windows 7 - (all information taken from the "System Information" tab.)

AMD 6100 six core processor
GForce GTX 650 TI
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Audio
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Realtek High Definition Audio
Nvdia Virtual Audio Device Wave Extensible (WDM)
Bluetooth Hands Free Audio
Nvdia High Definition Audio
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Thank you for your time.

[LieutenantLanza]

Okay so it DOES work for some games. But some games are just silent. I really do not understand. This is a list of games, hopefully someone can help me solve this. Very comfused as to why some would work while others wont.
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Unworking games -
Call of Duty World At War
Killing Floor
Killing Floor Mod Defense Alliance 2
Unreal Tournament 3
Trine 2
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Working Games -
Darksiders II
Metro Last Light
Left 4 Dead 2
Farcry 3 Blood Dragon
The Elders Scrolls V: Skyrim
Dishonored
Warframe
Torchlight II
Audio Surf
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ALL NON STEAM GAMES WORK -
The House Of The Dead 1-3
World Of Warcraft
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[LieutenantLanza]

bump : (

[|EP| MaC]

I dont know man, good luck!.

[LieutenantLanza]

Originally posted by |EP| MaC:

I dont know man, good luck!.

Yeah ive been searching for awnsers all day. i cant find anything

[Doomsday]

same problem here, I'm using the same USB bluetooth Dongle, and a LG 700 headset. it worked for a day, then came back and the next day and I get no audio in game OR thru voice chat.

[SirJaredSalty]

Any solutions yet?

[mikey.bear]

Somebody fixed it.
Here's what he did-
1 Opened Control Panel.
2 Went to Hardware and Sound.
3 Went to sound settings.
4 Went to recording tab.
5 Enabled stereo mix.
6 Problem disappeared.

[Duck]

sharing this in case the rambling gives anyone ideas:

I ran into a sort of similar issue with an old laptop i had. my laptop had bluetooth and it would connect to a seperate bluetooth receiver, but audio would not work from many applications, just system sounds would work. I am trying to remember what i figured out the issue was. I think it was related to my bluetooth adapter and how windows recognized it as an audio device.



try this thread: https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/617328415062370252/



disble bluetooth recording in audio devices

[kobliha]

+1 mikey.bear

its all about the sounds settings, you have to disable recordings (microphone) and enable the stereo

[BoromiR]

Originally posted by npH:

+1 mikey.bear

its all about the sounds settings, you have to disable recordings (microphone) and enable the stereo

doesnt that mean no more working microphone at all?
sorry to necro but recently encountered this problem and im trying to figure it out. while disabling handsfree telemetry, as it was advised in this very thread, fixes the problem, as a consequence, microphone now is completely disabled and can no longer be used neither on desktop, nor in games.
also, for some reason, when handsfree telemetry (bluetooth mic) is disabled, my headphones act weird and pc requires constant bluetooth on/off to fix it.

[Goxila]

#7 It works for me. Thanks a lot!

[glass]

Originally posted by BoromiRofGeo:

Originally posted by npH:

+1 mikey.bear

its all about the sounds settings, you have to disable recordings (microphone) and enable the stereo

doesnt that mean no more working microphone at all?
sorry to necro but recently encountered this problem and im trying to figure it out. while disabling handsfree telemetry, as it was advised in this very thread, fixes the problem, as a consequence, microphone now is completely disabled and can no longer be used neither on desktop, nor in games.
also, for some reason, when handsfree telemetry (bluetooth mic) is disabled, my headphones act weird and pc requires constant bluetooth on/off to fix it.

it means no more working bluetooth microphone. anyway disabling the bluetooth microphone in fixed it for me. it probably is due to the cheapo bluetooth headset i have that goes into the bluetooth headset mode if the mic is on.

[CantThinkOfOne]

Originally posted by mikey.bear:

Somebody fixed it.
Here's what he did-
1 Opened Control Panel.
2 Went to Hardware and Sound.
3 Went to sound settings.
4 Went to recording tab.
5 Enabled stereo mix.
6 Problem disappeared.

Thanks very much man.You made my day.
This solved my issue with NBA 20

[Fr3dY]

There's another way, try it out:

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/617328415062370252/#c617328415062728775

Settings / System / Sound / Sound Control Panel / Communications / Set to "Do nothing"

[Luna_fury]

Originally posted by mikey.bear:

Somebody fixed it.
Here's what he did-
1 Opened Control Panel.
2 Went to Hardware and Sound.
3 Went to sound settings.
4 Went to recording tab.
5 Enabled stereo mix.
6 Problem disappeared.

You can change it to either stereo or mono its about what speaker you have