Simviation Forum - help with headphones and hearing?

Jul 14^th, 2011 at 7:16pm

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ive asked this a few places and no one seems to know. when i play multiplayer without headphones i can hear people talking fine. when i plug my headphones in they can hear me but i cant here them, and the headphones defo work coz ive tried 3 pairs for something else. ive tried every setting and put them in both front and back ports of my pc. can anyone help.

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Reply #1 - Jul 15^th, 2011 at 12:55am

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Can you hear any sound through them?
Or is it just the people you can't hear?

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Reply #2 - Jul 15^th, 2011 at 2:46am

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In your SETTINGS/Sounds make sure the voice box is checked and set the slider at 50%, and if it works than adjust the slider for volume control.

Also, you don't say if your using a headset/mike combo or a headset and a standalone mike, so you might have a system problem and not an FSX problem. You can go into your PC control panel and click on Sounds and Audio Devices and run a mike/sound test from there.

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Reply #3 - Jul 15^th, 2011 at 3:20am

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i can hear all other sounds from the game apart from people talking to me. its a headset/mic combo.

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Reply #4 - Jul 15^th, 2011 at 11:27am

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years ago when i played online with fs98 and roger mike, there was an individual test that you had to do to configure the sound for online comms, does the comms package your using have setup where you test it?

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Reply #5 - Jul 15^th, 2011 at 2:04pm

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Have you checked that the mic driver is okay, pop into device manager and watch for ?s Wink

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Reply #6 - Jul 15^th, 2011 at 2:21pm

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There is one other thing I've thought, please don't take this wrong, but have you plugged into the headphone socket?

With many pc's there are other sockets related to sound but what is known as impedance maybe wrong on the socket your using.

You might be plugged into line out or line in.
In some cases you may get low sound from the line out.
It's worth checking as you may have a pc with surround sound capabilities.

Look at the plugs on your headphones, on 'modern' pc's/laptops, the microphone in/sound out for headphones have a coloured ( colored) socket that must match the color of the plugs on your headphones plugs.

Check sound settings in control panel.

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Reply #7 - Jul 15^th, 2011 at 2:22pm

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theres no driver for the mic. plus its not the mic because people can hear me. its them i cant hear yet i can hear all other game sounds. and its not flight sim settings because the same happens in COD

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Reply #8 - Jul 15^th, 2011 at 2:35pm

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Okay it might be some conflict issue. Try setting your sounds to 1/2 duplex rather than full Wink

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Reply #9 - Jul 15^th, 2011 at 5:02pm

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OMG IVE GOT IT WORKING Cheesy

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Reply #10 - Jul 15^th, 2011 at 6:09pm

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ok, and just how did you do that???

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Reply #11 - Jul 16^th, 2011 at 7:54am

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I have a surround sound system you see. when using my headphones my compute thought i was still using a surround sound system, so peoples voices we coming through but too speakers that werent actually there and the game sounds were coming through the 2 headphone speakers, so i changed it to stereo (only 2 speakers) and now i can hear everything and the mic is working great too Cheesy

thanks for the help guys

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Reply #12 - Jul 17^th, 2011 at 5:45pm

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Thought so

Glad your working now.

May the Mynd be with you.
So far my number of landings either passenger or pilot equal my number of takeoffs, but that is due to change

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