I'm only personally skeptical of software issues because it's not a usb headset, and the issue seems to only be occurring on TF2, nowhere else, meaning it's an issue with the TF2 voice codec on Jas' client.Fire wrote:I'd rather this not be locked in case a solution is found.
I have tested this with Corgi for hours with her mic. I wasn't in control watching what she was doing so I don't know if all the steps were followed properly but from our testing and other reports I have heard from people I highly suspect this to be a software issue.
Make sure your drivers are completely up to date and also check and see if you have any other audio software install that might be messing with it. One thing that would be interesting is if you tested the mic with a fresh windows install. I don't know if this will do anything but maybe try making a sub user account and installing TF2 there and seeing if it persists.
I'm not sure if you can do it client-side, as it didn't really show any results but servers can change sv_voicecodec vaudio_celt to something like vaudio_speex or steam's voice API.
It might be worth having a look at those to see if that makes any notable difference.
there's a server command to use the previous codec
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sv_use_steam_voice 1