Mic issues with tf2

[Flyingdebris]

Hey guys, having a bit of an issue, was wondering if anyone had any ideas

Starting a few days ago, my mic stopped working in tf2. If i go into the game's options > voice menu, the game acts like my mic does not work.

However, if i exit out of tf2, go to steam, and go to the view>settings>voice menu, and test my mic, it seems to work fine.

however again, when i try to go to vista's piece of crap sound recorder to test my mic, i get nothing again.

anybody have any clues? I can't play tf2 if i can't communicate with my team, drives me nuts.

 

[Escaep]

Only thing that i could think is to try downloading new sound drivers.

 

[Acepilotf14]

Does your mic have an off/on switch?

 

[Flyingdebris]

nope, its a barracuda razor headset, the only on/off is plugging or unplugging the mic from the headset. I've already tested it to make sure its secure.

like i said, steam seems to detect sound coming from it, for some reason tf2 and windows sound recorder doesn't seem to.

However i did go to 'setting up a new microphone' under speech recognition, and that program seems to detect output while setting it up

 

[Flyingdebris]

ok, managed to get sound recorder to detect my mic somehow, gonna try reinstalling tf2

 

[Flyingdebris]

ok didn't work, i suspect this has something to do with my control panel sound settings somehow.

 

[Acepilotf14]

smack it

 

[Flyingdebris]

problem fix'd

had to add +voice_forcemicrecord 0 to the launch options of the game to have it stop trying to force where it was getting the mic signals from, cause it was guessing wrong.