mic problem

[dviet]

it breaks up every few seconds and my voice sounds like gibberish, in the voice options, i tested it, and it was working perfectly, but in game its all broken up..ive tried messing with the voice commands but nothing worked so far..am i doing something wrong?

[Brandon]

broken up, as in cut out?

[dviet]

yeah, it gets cut off like every 2 seconds so its hard to talk cause i gotta talk hella fast before it cuts off

[Brandon]

Yeah, do you use teamspeak or anything? If not you have to talk louder and if that dosent work, il get some rate's that will fix that for yeah.

[dviet]

i know its not my voice, cause you know how if you do voice_loopback 1 you can see yourself talk? well i did that and the lil box with my name in it goes on/off even though im still holding on to the voice button.

[Brandon]

yeah, have to you tryed other servers?

[dviet]

yep every other server is the same

[Brandon]

move your config.cfg out of the folder an onto your desktop and tell me if it works then.

[[Koolaid]]

it might be location jd... are u putting the mic real close to ure speakers and/or are u speaking to close to it

[Master.America]

I've noticed that rates can affect mic quality... try this: in console, enter the cvars rate 20000, cl_cmdrate 85 and cl_updaterate 30. I'm assuming you've got broadband, so these are broadband rates. You might not want to use these if you're on 56k.

Also... if the problem persists and you have tried different locations for the mic (refer to Slayer777's post), then you might have a hardware problem. Try using a different mic. If it persists, then you might have a sound card issue. From my experience, mic jacks seem to be the first to go for some reason. No clue why. In that case, you can just run to a Circuit City and buy a simple Sound Blaster Live! card to install.