Insiddious Posted December 14, 2010 Member ID: 2042 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 3 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 16 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 110 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/13/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 03/04/1991 Posted December 14, 2010 Hi, so I have a logitech notebook headset which comes with a usb adapter, but also the standard mic and heaphone jacks. I have windows7 64bit and a Creative Sounblaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer sound card. Idk what the deal is but I can't get my mic to work in game. I press the Alt key and my name w/ the little speaker pops up but nobody can hear me, also I can only hear people at random. Oh and I also have Xfire and if someone could walk me through chat setup that would be great. Oh and I have checked my Sound in Control Panel and cranked up the sensetivity and volume levels. I am a PC gaming noob and can really use some help. Thanks.
St33l Posted December 14, 2010 Member ID: 212 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 13 Topic Count: 84 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 844 Content Per Day: 0.15 Reputation: 57 Achievement Points: 5154 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/03/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 4, 2017 Birthday: 12/02/1987 Posted December 14, 2010 What you need to do is set your microphone as default. Go to Control Panel - Sound - Recording; Then right click your headset microphone(Should be labeled as the headset maker) and select Set as Default Device.
Darth Yoda Posted December 14, 2010 Member ID: 934 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 19 Topic Count: 131 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 832 Content Per Day: 0.15 Reputation: 137 Achievement Points: 5656 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/27/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 19, 2014 Birthday: 08/16/1960 Posted December 14, 2010 Also check to make sure you have analog instead of digital set for audio input. For some reason my system resets to digital every few weeks.
Gump Posted December 14, 2010 Member ID: 1060 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 9 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 206 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 1120 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/29/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 01/01/1970 Posted December 14, 2010 Are you using the 3.5mm mic jacks or the usb adapter?The usb mic will run on it's own internal sound card and not through the x-fi sound card.
Insiddious Posted December 14, 2010 Member ID: 2042 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 3 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 16 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 110 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/13/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 03/04/1991 Author Posted December 14, 2010 Gump Are you using the 3.5mm mic jacks or the usb adapter?The usb mic will run on it's own internal sound card and not through the x-fi sound card. I'm using the 3.5mm on the front of my NZXT Tempest case. Both the mic and headphone jacks.
Insiddious Posted December 14, 2010 Member ID: 2042 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 3 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 16 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 110 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/13/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 03/04/1991 Author Posted December 14, 2010 St33l What you need to do is set your microphone as default. Go to Control Panel - Sound - Recording; Then right click your headset microphone(Should be labeled as the headset maker) and select Set as Default Device. Thank you so much. I was getting really frustrated with it. That seemed to do it. It wouldn't recognize it through the 3.5mm jacks, but when I used the USB adapter it picked it up. I'll go see if it worked!
Insiddious Posted December 15, 2010 Member ID: 2042 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 3 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 16 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 110 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/13/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 03/04/1991 Author Posted December 15, 2010 Well it didn't work. I am a pc noob so can someone please give me some step by step headset hookup for dummies help? I have Xfire too and don't know how to use chat in that either. My main issue is my pc not picking up the headset when I plug it into the 3.5mm jacks.
Gump Posted December 16, 2010 Member ID: 1060 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 9 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 206 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 1120 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/29/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 01/01/1970 Posted December 16, 2010 Go to- Start/Control panel/Sound/Recording/left click microphone/properties/levels/set volume to max and make sure it's not muted. You can also try mic boost by following the same path but instead of "levels",click on "custom" to turn on mic boost.
Toothpick Posted December 16, 2010 Member ID: 1891 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 12 Topic Count: 59 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1092 Content Per Day: 0.20 Reputation: 4 Achievement Points: 6106 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/14/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 17, 2012 Birthday: 03/19/1985 Posted December 16, 2010
X-RayXI Posted December 16, 2010 Member ID: 133 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 77 Topic Count: 602 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 6896 Content Per Day: 1.20 Reputation: 1376 Achievement Points: 44161 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Monday at 03:54 PM Birthday: 12/12/1971 Device: Windows Posted December 16, 2010 Check which sound drivers you need. Most of us are using "Realtek HD Audio" which works the best from the last version released. Please load up and find CPU-Z and let us know what motherboard/soundcard you have. Or even better; Make a screenshot of your "device manager" and press on the "+" to open Sound stuff. The hint that ST33L is giving is solving most of the problems. (combined with updates and do the st33l trick again) Awards
Insiddious Posted December 17, 2010 Member ID: 2042 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 3 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 16 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 110 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/13/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 03/04/1991 Author Posted December 17, 2010 I have done all of this. Multiple times. I have updated my drivers several times as well. Maybe my Mic jack on my case is busted? Or the Mic on the headphones don't work lol. Well I'll try it all again. Oh and of course I looked on google already! Silly geese. Thanks though everyone.
Insiddious Posted December 17, 2010 Member ID: 2042 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 3 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 16 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 110 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/13/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 03/04/1991 Author Posted December 17, 2010 Ok I've come to the conclusion that this mic is just a P.O.S. the audio quality is okay, but the mic must be busted. Thanks for the quick responses though. I will have to buy a new one I guess.
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