Mic doesn't work in any source game but works everywhere else

[burningelmo]

I play on a laptop. My mic used to work on source games, but i don't know what happened. I stopped playing for a while and i just realized now that my mic doesn't work. It works in everything else other than source games. I tried reinstalling gmod. I tried switching between chromium, x64, and default versions. I went to my sound settings in windows and made sure that my mic was the default device.

I have a focusrite now, but it was not working since before i had it. I tried doing the same steps for the default laptop mic and the focusrite. Both dont work. I have no other audio devices enabled when testing, everything is disabled except for the mic that i am trying to get to work. Both mic works in the steam voice options, but NOT in the "in-game" voice options in the steam overlay, as well as it not working in gmod itself. Other source games i tested it with was tf2 and left 4 dead 2. Both don't work, but cs2 works (prob cause it is on source 2 idk).

My other friend who has a focusrite has a working mic on source games. When i asked him to show me his settings, his ingame voice has the mic set to his oculus, but somehow the mic connected to his focusrite is the one working in game.

Another friend has his mic not working though. This friend also has a focusrite, and he is having the same exact problem that i am having.

 

[burningelmo]

Don't forget that in the volume mixer you can specify the input device

this didnt work btw

 

[burningelmo]

As i said to the other person, after we tried everything but a fresh OS install, theres not much else to be done if steam ect has been reinstalled, its a steam issue, but what the cause is, no one knows.

Could open a steam support ticket?

i can try, but didnt someone in one of the posts you link say that steam support couldnt do anything because there are too many audio combinations or smtg

 

[Ezza]

i can try, but didnt someone in one of the posts you link say that steam support couldnt do anything because there are too many audio combinations or smtg

Potentially, but they are many years old, so trying now wont do any harm, they may have more knowledge on the issue.

 

[burningelmo]

As i said to the other person, after we tried everything but a fresh OS install, theres not much else to be done if steam ect has been reinstalled, its a steam issue, but what the cause is, no one knows.

Could open a steam support ticket?

im pretty sure in one of the links you sent, there was a thing where someone said steam support couldnt help them cause there are too many different audio things to choose from
EDIT: mb i sent this twice