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11 years ago

Microphone not working in Multiplayer(PC)

My headset mic appears to not be recognized by Dragon Age. Windows knows it's there, and other applications can use it. (Skype, etc). But when I try to talk in multiplayer, it never picks up my vo...

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EA_David

Community Admin

11 years ago

If you check your Control Panel > Sound options, can you check that your headset/mic is set as the default device? Perhaps somehow when the game is running your PC is trying to use something else as the default sound capture? Then perhaps when Skype starts, it uses the mic as the main capture device, activating it in the game too

Fidras

11 years ago

Yup - it's definitely the default device once it it plugged in, and I've verified through the control panel. I've checked and nothing seems to "happen" once skype is loaded either. It seems like every application (except Dragon Age) recognizes it as a default device. I'm only able to trick Dragon Age into recognizing it if I'm running skype in parallel.