Monday, September 24, 2007

Fixing the Microphone in Steam Games with Realtek HD Audio

With the release of Team Fortress 2 on steam I was eager to get back into first person shooters and besides I've always enjoyed Team Fortress Classic. In any case I went to use the in game voice chat with steam and ended up annoying the hell out of my team mates when my microphone spewed out static and looped back sounds from the game. This is what I did to fix it:

  1. Downloaded the reference drivers from Realtek's website, to my computer.
  2. Uninstalled my old drivers
  3. Rebooted
  4. Reinstalled my new reference drivers.
  5. Opened the Windows Control Panel >> Sounds and Audio Devices
  6. Click the "Volume" Tab
  7. Clicked Advanced...
  8. Clicked "Options" menu then selected "Properties"
  9. Click the drop down list and selected "Realtek HDA Primary Input"
  10. Selected the check mark on "Stereo Mix" to mute it
  11. Saved the settings by closing it.
  12. Opened the Realtek Control Panel (Windows Control Panel >> "Realtek Sound Effect Manager")
  13. Clicked the "Mixer" tab
  14. Under the "Record" section mute the "Stereo Mix" again
  15. Done

2 comments:

Hagek said...

man ive never seen such a toughful tutorial about that crappy soundcard - that also came with my asus p5k deluxe motherboard and god damn asus for retailing realtek audio - but i am really optimistic and will give it a try. I really tried a little bit of everything and spent hours with no actual results.

Hagek said...

# Opened the Windows Control Panel >> Sounds and Audio Devices

I am running windows vista, and its in portuguese (brazil) i am not sure if vista works the same, but on the portuguese version i got 3 options on sound under the Control Panel "Adjust System Volume" - which prompts me with the system tray icon volume controls, "alter system sounds" - which gives a windows pop up window to set sounds of application and "Manage Audio Devices" which prompts me with a screen on which there are several audio devices

so i proceeded as if the last one is the correct choice


# Click the "Volume" Tab
# Clicked Advanced...


i'v failed to find any advanced option on the valume tab