Okay, I'm officially vexxed.

Mic works fine for TeamSpeak when in Hyperlobby, press to talk, etc.

Mic is dead in simulation.

Troubleshooting so far:

1) Replace headset for the X-Fi soundcard. Why? Who knows, I had an extra one.
2) Uncheck the "allow applications to take exclusive control..." box, as I thought maybe the sim is trying to use the mic when in fact it's disabled in the control panel.
3) Replace headset with a USB headset, thereby taking the XFi soundcard out of the equation completely.
4) Same result.
5) Perform step #2.
6) Same result.

Sigh.

Vista Home Premium, latest drivers, etc.

Somebody have a clue on how to fix this?

1. Make sure you've turned off the inbuilt voice comms in IL2.
2. Try "wave" instead of "direct sound" in TS2.

I hope this helps.

Camo

TS can be sensitive to which input socket is in use by your mike (or hardware mixer output) Dart

Set 'Safe DirectX sound' option in testing (although toggle to test too as Camo said) and check your Windows Mixer settings haven't changed on installing something lately

Does the TS Local Microphone Test work ok?

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That should sort you out, Dart

I have the same problem and the only solution so far is to join a server and after that start TS.

I have also had problems with the X-Fi and the fairly crappy software (and updates). I have to start TS, then use the TS menus: Settings -> Sound Settings -> Activate local test mode, go to the Sound Volume icon on the TaskBar -> options -> properties -> Recording ; then UNSELECT Microphone, then SELECT Microphone ; and then test the microphone with speech.

I have to do this EVERY time I boot and want to use TS! I suspect some automatic volume control is sodding things up.

Also, after some update from Creative, I had to make sure "SVM" was ON in the Creative Audio Console.

Hope this helps!

smoker aka phoenix1963 aka 56RAF_phoenix

X-Fi soundcard has issues. One is that the mic does not work when you want it to.
I struggled with this a year ago.

I now plug my mic into the desktop case jack (not the soundcard jack) configured to pick up the motherboard sound drivers.

As above, I then configure TS to use the motherboard sound drivers.

Awkward I know.

~Flatlander

S! Dart,

I have a similar problem and I believe that it is related to the Vista program. It does weird things to the "administrator" rights. First solutions from the TS forums insisted that all I had to do was RIGHT CLICK the program (TS, TIR-4, etc.) icon and select "run as an administrator", but I had mixed results.

Then I discovered this:

http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/49310655/m/1921070116

In process of working through this solution. Just posted FYI.

Regards,

WWNatops

Asus does soundcards now ... I know my next soundcard will NOT be a Creative!

Just to be curious Dart, have you tried Ventrilo ? I must admit it is far far better than TS. Give it a try and let us know. Also some my squaddies have vista and no probs with TS or Ventrilo.

We had exactly this problem under earlier Windows operating systems. That's why people are saying it's an awkward one this. TS can be muted ingame but you have to set up a game and fly a mission to run one test under the same conditions as in the fault condition. There are lots of variables to be tested and when it gets fixed no one knows what they did, we're thankful it's fixed and we move on to flying without a backward curse

This not-knowing possibly means that it's an individual system thing, some range of settings will work in the end but everyone's system has slightly different settings so advice on a particular setting might not help. Or we'd know by now what the fix is

There's an 'updated executable' at the TS site, that might be worth trying

TS can get confused ('hard-wired' input channel) about where its getting its input, maybe the updated executable allows TS to pick up where the mike's output is incoming - perhaps switching to Line input if it detects an active audio channel on that input

Hmm there was a November update to DirectX (DirectSound) bear that in mind if you're using DirectSound ('Safe DirectX sound' setting in il2fbsetup.exe) rather than wave audio

Get on TS with a friend or friendly enemy and try changing settings in the TS GUI little by little, see if you can approach the problem with heavy weapons, switch around the input to your card (leave it in the Microphone In socket in the end, if that does nothing)

Note: hard-wired is in quotes there because an input may only be detected/looked for by TS on one (hardware) input port - because the TS code only expected that people would be using the dedicated Microphone input, not anticipating that people would also be using hardware mixers which output to the soundcard's Line In socket. For those of us who only read the first 50% etc

Ventrilo For Dummies hmm good title

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