Voice over Headset, Game Over Speakers?

[jhoff80 0]

I couldn't find anything about this, but I was wondering if it's at all possible to switch the device the in-game voice chat plays over. I'd love to have the game over my surround system, and still be able to have voice chat in the headset in my ear, but I couldn't find anything in the game settings to specify this. I was hoping maybe that there's some advanced settings I don't know about in some cfg file somewhere.

[Hidden_Ops (DayZ) 27]

I think it goes off of your default audio device, so if you changed it in windows prior to starting the game that would work.

[Disgraced 1123]

Are they both the same input type?

I have a USB headset and audio jack speakers. You can't cross the streams there.

When I had a headset that used audio jacks, I could do this... But not now.

[jhoff80 0]

No, they're two different connections, HDMI out for the game, and 3.5mm analog connections for the headset. I haven't tried it, maybe I'll see if it listens to the "default communications device" setting for voice chat and "default device" for the game, not sure if that'll help.

[Teiwaz 45]

I couldn't find anything about this, but I was wondering if it's at all possible to switch the device the in-game voice chat plays over. I'd love to have the game over my surround system, and still be able to have voice chat in the headset in my ear, but I couldn't find anything in the game settings to specify this. I was hoping maybe that there's some advanced settings I don't know about in some cfg file somewhere.

Normally a game has 1 audio device for input and 1 for output (could be different, could be the same), but you can't seperate "ambient audio" from "voice audio".

It WOULD be possible if there's an option to chose your voice device, but afaik there's not and Arma2 just uses the Windows default (and games also normally don't care about "Multimedia", "Communication" and "Standard" devices set, they all go for "Standard").