Seems like I'll be without voice for a while. My old soundcard blew up a few weeks ago so took the opportunity to get a new Audigy 2 with the external breakout box.
The card is fantastic, sound quality is great and the new dvd-audio (it came with a sampler disc) is stunning.
Anyway, seems like the heaving dinosaur that is CS can't handle the new card. My voice comms will not work. The voice tweak won't recognise the mic at all (The mic is combined with line 1) Sound recorder works fine, just CS :(
I'll keep trying to sort it, but if anyone has any ideas.. Oh, and voice tweak comes up with 'Couldn't find mic volume.'
Open up creative mixer and see what is showing in the "record" box. If you have mic plugged in at front then you will need mic2 selected and not mic1.
Additionally, ensure mic volume is turned up using knob on front of box. Also check that +20dB is ticked (click the red cross to get to that one).
there is only one mic socket on this one. it's mic/line one, it's on the breakout box and it is selected. It works fine in all other apps, except CS!
I had problems with CS on my old audigy, it wouldn't accept the mic input from the breakout header, I had to plug it into the mic socket on the soundcard for it to work. However the audigy 2 only has speaker outs on the soundcard, the rest is on the breakout box.
IIRC then voice tweak has a problem with audigy cards. You had to go to control panel, sounds, then select the audio tab and click advanced. On my system that brings up another dialog with two tabs, one of these is labelled performance and allows you to change the amount of hardware acceleration. You had to have it either all the way or nearly all the way LEFT to run voice tweak (put it back to fully right once you are done)
HI m8
got the card myself and it works fine. i did have a problem with the drivers on 98SE which ended with me getting XP.
nope, no joy. seems like it doesn't like the terminology. There is no mic port, it's combined with line one input. I guess this is what's confusing it.
*bump* for TL
Have you checked in the Multimedia options to see what is set as the "record from" source? It has to be set to mic IIRC.
yes.
I've tried everything possible.
The problem I believe is that there is no mic socket on the card. Its on the breakout box and the drivers do not refer to it as a microphone socket. It's line 2 or 3 I think.
Anyway, CS appears to be looking for a specific reference to 'Mic' in the mixer which isn't there. This is the problem. So I think that unless CS gets updated to stop being so anal I'm out of luck.
Or I can disable my audigy and enable the soundcard that is on the mobo to play CS, but that is an awful lot of TANGO.
I would check with Armitage to see what Driver version he is using and then check you have the same.
I have the latest.
It's not drivers. It's the fact that the card has no mic port.
I believe that he has the straight Audigy 2 right? This has a mic port on the back of the card itself.
Mine does not.
Flog it mate. We need you.
i've got one of these knocking around somewhere
http://www.dearhoney.idv.tw/MUSEUM/Creativ...ster16Value.jpg (http://www.dearhoney.idv.tw/MUSEUM/Creative_SoundBlaster16Value.jpg)
it's got a mic socket and is excellent for counterstrike ;)
QuoteOriginally posted by OldBloke@Sep 9 2003, 04:54 PM
Flog it mate. We need you.
awwww :wub:
I suppose I can try and disable it and use the onboard sound. That does work, as I've used that before.
It just sucks that you have a top end soundcard and one app has an issue with it.
Oh, and I won't be selling it as I use my PC as my media center now. It's linked to my amp via a digital coax link and the sound is awesome. Which is great as my CD player died and now I don't need a new one! Oh, and DVD audio ROX!
Stupid question, but have you tried chatting to Valve (afterall they are doing bog all else at the moment) and Creative Labs to see if they are (a) aware of the problem and (B) have a solution?
TL. :cool:
PS Thanx for the bumb :D
nope. cs is usually crappy from creative and I don't want to interrupt valve
wooo!
ok, got my voice to work.
What I need to do is Alt-tab out of CS and change the mixer back to line 1/mic when the game is running. For some reason it changes it to mp3 input!
wooo! :lol:
Now that is deffo good news.
Well sussed. :D
with a little help from someone on the steam forums as he was having the same problem!
anyway, just need to tweak them now. was a little choppy apparently. possibly just a network issue as DCG was fine the other night.
update:
http://steampowered.com/forums/showthread....4751#post524751 (http://steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=524751#post524751)
seems someone was having the same problem so coded a little app that swaps the source back at a specified interval. And it works!
I've attached the file for convenience.
MuvEnum has released a little program that works along the same lines as mixerfixer but allows you to save your settings, automatically runs on startup (as a tray icon, or hidden). You can check it out at http://www.muvenum.com/muvixer (http://www.muvenum.com/muvixer)
It is freeware and works wonders.
Thanks,
Renzska
First seriously -
I have Audigy 2 zs. Front panel, but does have board in slot for Mic. Do you have this? Makes front panel a bit of a waste, but may work. Second - yep front is line-in2/mic2 port. Try using surround mixer to set both mic and record to line2/mic2.
In BF2 I find that as soon as I enter a game the stupid mic resets from the front panel so I have to ALt-tab and reset it. Could this be your problem?
Then -
Why not try a newer game like BF2, board works fine!
edit: must read to end of thread first. Anyway looks like i was right - thanks for the fix too!