low mic in vista

Nailezs · Jun 8, 2010

hey guys. sorry if this has been posted before, spent some time with search and went back to 08 but couldnt find a solution

so, i have vista, and a mic. and of course, they dont work properly.

my mic works, but it is always low, windows doesnt even really "hear" my voice when i try to set my mic up. it is working, as i can talk in vent, ts, steam, etc. but in vent and ts my pals have to turn me way up, and in steam i sound really low.

i have uninstalled and reinstalled my sound card drivers, to no avail.
in control panel>sound>recording>properties my mic volume is turned all the way up. and i can not find any sound card software where i can adjust anything

am i missing something simple here? does anyone have a fix for this?

thx

erocker · Jun 8, 2010

Mic boost all the way up?

Nailezs · Jun 8, 2010

i've seen that mentioned in ohter places but have never found that setting. i assumed mic boost was the mic volume in the contorl panel.

Nailezs · Jun 9, 2010

ok, i've done some checking, and i'm 100% positive that my computer does not have/support mic boost

Hockster · Jun 9, 2010

If you don't have the boost option your drivers are installed correctly.

Nailezs · Jun 9, 2010

sigh, crappy vista sound support

Solaris17 · Jun 9, 2010

Hockster said:
If you don't have the boost option your drivers are installed correctly.

agreed no boost = driver error. whats the card?

Nailezs · Jun 9, 2010

soundblaster x-fi xtreme audio. came with the MB. im using the latest drivers for it - should i try uninstalling them and using the windows drivers?

Solaris17 · Jun 9, 2010

Nailezs said:
soundblaster x-fi xtreme audio. came with the MB. im using the latest drivers for it - should i try uninstalling them and using the windows drivers?

un install them. let windows install drivers. then try installing the creative drivers again (after a reboot when windows installs them) make sure you download the creative suite and not just the drivers.

Nailezs · Jun 9, 2010

will do - i'll give that a try otnight when i get home.

Hockster · Jun 9, 2010

Nailezs said:
soundblaster x-fi xtreme audio. came with the MB. im using the latest drivers for it - should i try uninstalling them and using the windows drivers?

My Asus boards that have X-Fi based sound cards actually use Via chips and need Via drivers. Check your driver disc for some, and/or download the latest ones. I had almost the exact same issue with the current card I'm using right now. I figured my "Creative" card didn't need Via drivers and wondered why the disc had them. But without the Via drivers absolutely nothing worked right and I didn't have the mic boost option either.

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