I hate my microphones.

[Needles]

I have had a longitech and now a GE one. They both worked VERY well in audacity and widows voice commands. But they cannot work in ANY video games. They cannot work in cod4, TF2, or halo 2. Why is that? They all have their software/drivers/whatever needed installed. Also, I need to know how to get around the beeping when putting a mic near the speakers, since I want to be able to play music.

Does having a realtek on-board sound card have anything to do with it?

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

Ugh, you got to fiddle around with settings, most of the time it seems to be realtek onboard though, i used to have the same problem.

[Needles]

Ugh, you got to fiddle around with settings, most of the time it seems to be realtek onboard though, i used to have the same problem.

I literally have wasted hours of time just fiddling with settings, and installing all kinds of drivers.

I've seen these Creative labs X-fi ones that plug in to the outside of your PC with a usb thingy, would that help?
http://us.creative.com/products/product.asp?product=17872&WT.cg_n=DataFeed&WT.cg_s=Froogle_Sound+Blaster+X-Fi+Go!&WT.mc_id=20834&campID=20947

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

I don't know, I would suggest a relatively decent but cheap internal card if possbile.

[Needles]

I don't know, I would suggest a relatively decent but cheap internal card if possbile.

Maybe, if I could get my mom to get me one since my dad doesn't want me opening up the PC. I think I may try one more mic though, wait a bit and get one that isn't dirt cheap, it might work a tad better.

But still though, why would a sound card prevent a mic from working in video games?

[Roostervier]

Just get a usb headset.

e: Didn't really read your post. Even still, you should just get a usb headset, it makes everything a lot easier.

[Needles]

Just get a usb headset.

e: Didn't really read your post. Even still, you should just get a usb headset, it makes everything a lot easier.

Thanks for the help. I'll try a USB one. Still a longitech one though. If it still doesn't work I may try to found an external USB sound card too, the worse that can happen is the mic doesn't work in games but I get awesome quality in audacity and in sound quality.

[Heathen]

360 mic woop woop

E: ya get a usb one.

[Huero]

Thanks for the help. I'll try a USB one. Still a longitech one though. If it still doesn't work I may try to found an external USB sound card too, the worse that can happen is the mic doesn't work in games but I get awesome quality in audacity and in sound quality.

LOGITECH.
IT'S LOGITECH.
FUCK.

[Cortexian]

Logitech USB headsets ftw.

Best ones I've ever used.

[legionaire45]

The quality on my Microsoft LifeChat LX-3000 is actually surprisingly good for the $30 I paid. It's a USB Mic.

USB is easier to set up but remember that it's going to eat up CPU cycles to process that sound. Probably not a whole lot but there will be some performance impact.

[Needles]

The quality on my Microsoft LifeChat LX-3000 is actually surprisingly good for the $30 I paid. It's a USB Mic.

USB is easier to set up but remember that it's going to eat up CPU cycles to process that sound. Probably not a whole lot but there will be some performance impact.

That doesn't matter to much, most games I play on already run at 50-70fps, so I don't think it would do much.

I might try that microsoft one, it's a lot cheaper than some of longitech's but sounds like it'll actually be good.

[StankBacon]

The quality on my Microsoft LifeChat LX-3000 is actually surprisingly good for the $30 I paid. It's a USB Mic.



i can vouch for this, the headphones sound very good, and they do a pretty good job of keeping outside sound out.

the microphone works very well too, swivels and is bendy.