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LAN Party Forums => Support Group => Started by: The Nstuff on September 08, 2012, 05:56:56 PM
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Seems so stupid, but I finally researched and figured out what is causing it:
Symptom: loading up Teamspeak or various games with in-game-talk capabilities and all of a sudden, the volume on a bunch of other apps drops to really low levels. When you look in the win7 mixer, you see the other volume levels grayed out a bit and lower than they should be.
Fix:
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Windows 7 automatically lowers speaker volume when it detects communication activity (A microphone-enabled game for example). You can turn this off though.
Navigate to:
Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Sound -> Audio properties -> Communications tab
Select Do Nothing from the dropdown box. Apply & OK.
>> source: http://superuser.com/questions/74116/windows-7-lowers-applications-volume-automatically (http://superuser.com/questions/74116/windows-7-lowers-applications-volume-automatically)
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Haha, all you had to do was ask :)
I just did this last night for Win8, but for me it was dropping the volume when I disconnected the keyboard and mouse (I was using my system to stream some video while building a PC for a co-worker and needed the mouse/keyboard for that). It was driving me nuts until I remembered that setting was there. In this case, however, TeamSpeak had nothing to do with it. For whatever reason, Win8 saw me disconnecting the keyboard/mouse as "Communications" activity.
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Maybe that is the cause of my G35 cutting the audio in half when I plug a USB device in. Usually happens when I am watching a video on Youtube. I will have to give this a shot.
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I have the opposite problem. I used to have and like it when Win7 would drop the volume to all other apps when my comms device was in use so I can hear you guys when I am gaming. Ever since the last TS update, win7 does not do that anymore. And I have checked these settings again and again.