No audio recorded after installing Equalizer APO for Windows

[▵decimalist]

As the title goes. I installed Equalizer APO for Windows a couple days ago and have since had no audio recorded in Steam Game Recording, *no matter which game I used it on* (not game dependent).

As APO is installed per-device, I unfortunately installed it for every output device I own and have since uninstalled APO itself, reinstalled audio drivers and uninstalled Realtek in Device Manager + reboot. Sadly still no audio recorded.

However, this timing coincides with a bunch of other people reporting that they have no audio in. Not sure if my problem is instead that one combined with mine.

[ev56]

I found an easy and good workaround that uses OBS instead:
https://www.reddit.com/r/oratory1990/comments/170b10l/comment/k3k2a2o

In OBS, use both "Game Capture" and "Application Audio Capture (Beta)" as your Sources in OBS. "Game Capture" will record video while "Application Audio Capture (Beta)" will capture audio directly from the game before Equalizer APO touches it.

[Adept Rabbit]

Originally posted by ev56:

I found an easy and good workaround that uses OBS instead:
https://www.reddit.com/r/oratory1990/comments/170b10l/comment/k3k2a2o

In OBS, use both "Game Capture" and "Application Audio Capture (Beta)" as your Sources in OBS. "Game Capture" will record video while "Application Audio Capture (Beta)" will capture audio directly from the game before Equalizer APO touches it.

I don't wanna install obs just to use steam recording voice.
is there another way to fix this?

[kamild_【=◈︿◈=】]

So that's why my recordings have no sound...
I played around with the Equalizer APO troubleshooting options and nothing seems to be allowing Steam to capture audio properly. And it's not like Equalizer APO is making it impossible, since other programs I've used before (incl. Medal and mentioned OBS) can do it just fine.
The only workaround for now is to change the "Record Audio from..." option in the Game Recorder settings to "All System Audio". I'd much rather be able to capture game audio only, but EQ is still much more valuable for me, so I'd love Valve to get this working with EQ eventually.

[Ryukrieger]

Oh goodness, I was wondering why my audio recording keep on randomly breaking every other update when only recording game audio, seems like this is very likely to be the cause for me since I use Equalizer APO as well...

It's odd that sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't, though recently it just doesn't work at all.

[eki]

It might be a conflict caused by the Realtek + Equalizer APO combination, as I myself haven't had any issues with capturing audio using Steam Game Recording AND using Equalizer APO at the same time. I use a Yamaha mixer instead of my motherboard-supplied audio outputs.

I do have had some issues with my microphone clipping heavily. It turns out Steam's "Automatic Gain Control" caused that, as soon as I disabled it no more clipping.

[kamild_【=◈︿◈=】]

Originally posted by ekimeister:

It might be a conflict caused by the Realtek + Equalizer APO combination, as I myself haven't had any issues with capturing audio using Steam Game Recording AND using Equalizer APO at the same time. I use a Yamaha mixer instead of my motherboard-supplied audio outputs.

I do have had some issues with my microphone clipping heavily. It turns out Steam's "Automatic Gain Control" caused that, as soon as I disabled it no more clipping.

Unfortunately I don't think this is it, I use an USB DAC and my Realtek on-board audio is completely disabled through the BIOS. Must be something else.