Post by halokilla on Apr 24, 2006 16:43:18 GMT -6
So messing around with options last night I was able to get my mic working for Ventrilo, but still wouldn't work for counter-strike/dod. Today messing around, I was able to figure out the problem. So I'll explain both things.
First (getting it working in ventrilo/teamspeak):
Now for some reason I never see alot of these things on other computers, but my sound card and all that is different than some so, this will vary depending on your OS (windows/mac/linux), and sound card.
(everything I"m showing is shown on a windows xp, with a Creative AudioPCI, and Intel 82801Ba/BAM AC'97 Audio Controller)
First go to your volume control, either from your control bar at the bottom of your desktop screen, or by going to My computer -> Change a Setting/Control Panel -> Sound and Audio Devices -> Audio tab. Now click on one of the shown "Volume" buttons.
This will bring up your Volume Control. Now go to Options, and select "Advanced Controls". This will enable advanced options for more, advanced people, but needed regardless.
Now go to Options -> properties -> Select "recording" and click on "Ok". This is where you can adjust your microphone input/output options for the ENTIRE COMPUTER, not just a specific game/program. Make sure you have "Mute" unchecked under where it says "Microphone". I also have Line-in/Line-in 2, so I also have those unchecked for "mute". Now, finally, under where it says "Microphone" you should have a button now that says "Advanced". Click on this. If your computer is like mine, then you will have two check boxes down at the bottom, "1 Microphone Boost", and "2 Alternate Microphone". Make sure "1 Microphone Boost" is checked, but the "2 Alternate Microphone" is UNCHECKED. This activates a microphone built into the hardware, which is not a good thing, and will deactivate any microphone you have connected that's not in the hardware.
The second option: Again, you need to go to My computer -> Change a Setting/Control Panel -> Sound and Audio Devices -> Audio tab. However, this time you do NOT want to be in the volume control. Under where it says "Sound Recording" you will have a pull down menu. Adjust these a bit, by trying each selection, depending on if you have more than one option. This was the problem in game, because it was choosing to use a microphone from the wrong sound card, which could not support microphones.
These may be a number of microphone problems, on top of making sure your microphone is on, volume turned up, not having "mute" selected on the headset (if your using a headset), making sure you have "Enable voice" in the game, and quite a number of other few, obvious reasons.
Hopefully this is helpful to someone later down the line, as it took me alot of time to try and write this out after taking a VERY long time to discover this stuff, and hopefully everyone can understand this. lol!
First (getting it working in ventrilo/teamspeak):
Now for some reason I never see alot of these things on other computers, but my sound card and all that is different than some so, this will vary depending on your OS (windows/mac/linux), and sound card.
(everything I"m showing is shown on a windows xp, with a Creative AudioPCI, and Intel 82801Ba/BAM AC'97 Audio Controller)
First go to your volume control, either from your control bar at the bottom of your desktop screen, or by going to My computer -> Change a Setting/Control Panel -> Sound and Audio Devices -> Audio tab. Now click on one of the shown "Volume" buttons.
This will bring up your Volume Control. Now go to Options, and select "Advanced Controls". This will enable advanced options for more, advanced people, but needed regardless.
Now go to Options -> properties -> Select "recording" and click on "Ok". This is where you can adjust your microphone input/output options for the ENTIRE COMPUTER, not just a specific game/program. Make sure you have "Mute" unchecked under where it says "Microphone". I also have Line-in/Line-in 2, so I also have those unchecked for "mute". Now, finally, under where it says "Microphone" you should have a button now that says "Advanced". Click on this. If your computer is like mine, then you will have two check boxes down at the bottom, "1 Microphone Boost", and "2 Alternate Microphone". Make sure "1 Microphone Boost" is checked, but the "2 Alternate Microphone" is UNCHECKED. This activates a microphone built into the hardware, which is not a good thing, and will deactivate any microphone you have connected that's not in the hardware.
The second option: Again, you need to go to My computer -> Change a Setting/Control Panel -> Sound and Audio Devices -> Audio tab. However, this time you do NOT want to be in the volume control. Under where it says "Sound Recording" you will have a pull down menu. Adjust these a bit, by trying each selection, depending on if you have more than one option. This was the problem in game, because it was choosing to use a microphone from the wrong sound card, which could not support microphones.
These may be a number of microphone problems, on top of making sure your microphone is on, volume turned up, not having "mute" selected on the headset (if your using a headset), making sure you have "Enable voice" in the game, and quite a number of other few, obvious reasons.
Hopefully this is helpful to someone later down the line, as it took me alot of time to try and write this out after taking a VERY long time to discover this stuff, and hopefully everyone can understand this. lol!
