A Major Audio Mess

falcon409

falcon409

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I have made a total mess of the audio setup for both Win10 and P3D_V4. It all started because while I could hear all sounds in both Win10 and P3D_V4. . .I could not hear ATC. So I switched to a different audio device and it fixed the ATC problem, but then the Win10 sounds were gone, I couldn't hear video. I continued to mess with settings until currently I have no mic active and only certain sounds work.

I don't have external speakers so none of the "plug-in" type jacks are in use. I have a Logitech Headset w/Boom Mic and that's it. That is a USB plugin and that's all there is to it. My system uses the Realtek HD Audio drivers and at various times, depending on what I check in the sound setup menu I see "Realtec HD Audio", "Digital Audio" or "Logitech Headset" as the sound device to set as default (the Logitech Headset device does not include the mic. . .it seems to only recognize it as a "speaker"). I have messed with this for so long now that I don't know what the correct settings should be anymore.

Does anyone have a similar setup, someone with Realtek Audio, A headset/boom Mic and Win10-64bit. If you have any other arrangement, please don't post how great your setup is. . .I'm glad it works for you, but if it isn't identical to mine I'm not really interested in hearing about it.

Thanks in advance.
 
Ok, I have Realtek, and a headset. First of all when you open the Realtek audio manager, does it show the Logitech headset ? If so, select the Realtek as default for window,and in FSX. That should work. If the headset appears in the Realtek Audio manager, the mike should too.

If the headset does not appear in the Realtek audio manager, select the Logitech as the default device in both. My headset only shows in Realtech, not as a separate device...
Sue
 
Thanks for that Sue. . .One of the problems I had was that the headset showed as a device, but the mic wasn't recognized. I saw a separate device (headset) as a "speaker" but nothing I did would cause it to be activated. Any attempt to set up the mic failed because it said there was no "audio device" available.

What I finally had to do was go into the Device Manager and delete all devices (and drivers) showing under gaming and Audio (there were quite a few actually), then reboot several times and it finally recognized the headset and mic as a USB setup and not one of the various colored jacks that it insisted had to be connected before anything would work. Of course for now that means Realtek HD Audio software and NVidia HD Audio software aren't installed. All that actually shows now is "Digital Audio" and "Logitech Headset".

It appears that everything works though. . .System sounds, In-Sim sounds (including ATC), and Teamspeak (which was another area that would not allow any mic setup). So, I'm not sure that I should "Rock the boat" for now and try reinstalling those other programs. If I had a full-blown exterior speaker system I probably would, but for a simple headset and boom mic, I don't really see the need, at least for now.
 
Realtek is a mystery to me, tried and tried over the years on various PC's and never got it to work properly, I've managed to botch up the regular sound off my MB tinkering, learned it is best left alone.... like a dark art akin to overclocking. :encouragement: Some things we are not meant to know. :biggrin-new:
 
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