Retarded mic Created 18 years ago2006-09-08 19:28:53 UTC by Soup Miner

Ok I'm royally pissed off. I have 3 mics and none of them work worth a shit while I'm playing a game on Steam. When I talk it sounds like a tortured cat. But do ANY of these 3 mics have a problem OUTSIDE of the game? No, no problems at all. I've tested them with hardware tests and manual recordings time and time again and there is NOTHING wrong with any of them. I have tweaked the voice settings over and over and over and the damn thing never gets any better. So why in the name of God does my voice fuck itself in the ass when I try to use my mic ingame?

Whats your sound card / are you in Teamspeak or ventrilo?

I don't know what my sound card is. I doubt it has anything to do with this but how do I figure it out?
And no, I'm not running teamspeak or ventrilo. I run Trillian but thats it an that doesn't affect my mic.

Ok, cus if you were running a talk program, some sound cards dont support having to input programs or w/e you wanna call it.

Alls i can suggest is getting a new sound card, or a 10 dollar USB mic.

Steam does seem to have some problems with mics. I hear a lot of players with these really crappy sounding mics that are grating on the ears, although it doesn't normally happen constantly.

Maybe try tweaking your microphone preferences? Although I can't believe you wouldn't have already tried that...

Maybe you have both inputs--your pc speaker and mic--on simultaneously? Type "sndvol32.exe /r" in the RUN thingie to check... [/StabInDark]

Did you try steampowered forums?

This is probably just another example of how Valve can't seem to get the simplest things to work right, even after all this time.

For the longest time, my Server Favourites kept disappearing, and the "buddy list" worked spotily, or not at all--both of which I haven't even bothered with in a long time, since they never worked right for me.