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NFS Heat party chat issues (can't hear partymates)
I'm guessing this might be a cross-play thing? I play on PC and my friend on PS4, we've had no problem entering into a party in NFS Heat and talking to each other through headsets, yet the last time ...
@EA_Darko I think you're right about that. I'm a novice at PC systems but I found the advanced sound settings that had my headphones listed as the default playback for game audio and my monitor speakers as default for communication audio, and I think that's why it was splitting. I adjusted the settings so that ALL audio defaults to my headphones and that seems to have fixed the problem.
Right-click the speaker icon in the tray > speaker setup > advanced setup. Then I checked all 4 tabs (playback, recording, sounds, and communications) to make sure I had the proper devices listed as defaults.
