Voice in direct chat doesn´t work

[hallgeirbakken 5]

After building my first PC the direct voice (hitting caps lock) doesn´t work anymore. The mic icon pops up on the screen, but players doesn´t hear my voice. The rest of the game works fine and I hear other players using direct voice.

 

I´ve tested it with a friend, so I know it´s not my headset (Tritton 720+)  that is causing the problem; and I´m also using Mumble to communicate with my friend in-game. I´m an experienced DayZ player and used direct voice many times on my previous computer.

 

My parts are 

ASUS Zabertooth Z77 MoBo

ASUS Xonar Phoebus Solo soundcard

Inten i7-3770 core

EVGA GTX 780

Win 8

Tritton 720+ headset

 

Everything works fine with the mic in other games; except the in-game voice in DayZ. It´s very weird not being able to talk to other players and everybody now count me as hostile since I don´t respond and there is usually no time to sit down and type. And what´s the point doing a co-op with a non-communicating player?

 

Anyone have a clue what to do to get this working again?

 

This is my first PC after +15 years owning Macs, so please be specific if I need to tweak something

 

[mzltv 2281]

Any chance it could be server-side?
Have you tried it out on different servers?

[hallgeirbakken 5]

Hmm, that´s a good point. Been playing mostly on two Zombies.nu (DayZero) servers lately, but as far as I remember this has also been the case on other servers too. Been playing some hours on different servers and after a while I got this nagging feeling that no one did hear me since they didn´t respond at all when I was talking. I´m pretty sure this isn´t the case, but not 100%

[JSparks (DayZ) 109]

This is a direct rip from this thread, assuming you've yet to read it.

 

 

 

 

Check that your microphone that is being used is set as Default device and Default communication device. This can be achieved by going into control panel in windows (press the windows key, it will be on the right side of the window that pops up) clicking on "Hardware and sound" then clicking on "Sound". This will bring up the sound window, click on the "recording" tab and then right click on the microphone you are using (if you have multiple then perhaps its best to unplug and rather use one). There will also be sound controllers under the recording tab, ignore them for now.

 

Once you have right clicked on the microphone there will be a drop down box, check if you can see the words Default device and Default communication device and make sure they have a tick next to them on the left. If you cant see the words then its most likely that the device is already set as Default, if this is the case, simply right click on a sound controller under the "recording" tab and make it your default device and Default communication device, then right click on your microphone again and set it back to default the way I explained before.

 

This is to make sure that windows has in fact registerd with all other programs that it is the default device, sometimes its listed as default but it doesnt work until you have reset it to default. Sound controllers have names like "Stereo Mix" and the microphone will be listed under the name "Microphone".

 

 

 

 

Alternatively, make sure all of your drivers are up to date. I had a similar problem and fixed it by downloading drivers for the sound card, video card (with onboard sound) and headset. 

Also you should try running ArmA II as admin and see if that changes anything. :)

Edited August 29, 2013 by JSparks

[toxicsludge 406]

I think when I played dayzero, direct was disabled...doesn't explain it if you've tried different servers tho.

[hallgeirbakken 5]

I think when I played dayzero, direct was disabled...doesn't explain it if you've tried different servers tho.

Direct voice worked on the DE1 server (Zombies.nu) two nights ago 

[hallgeirbakken 5]

*** SOLVED ***

 

Thanks to JSparks this issue is now solved  :D

It worked after setting the Tritton 720+ as Default; and I also ran ARMA II as admin - now it sings like a bird  :beans: