Sgt-PieFace

42 minutes ago, immortal duffel said:

I had the same experience. I added

voice_mixer_volume "-1"

into my autoexec for CSGO to stop it.

 

I also had the same thing happen when I tried to play Black Ops 2 Zombies and never found a fix.

Thanks for the reply. My understanding was that when you don't allow applications to 'take exclusive control' of devices, it should stop this from happening. Which seemed to be the case for me until a few days ago. Very frustrating

Hello everyone! I have been using a Yeti Classic mic for a few months for streaming and I love it. I have had zero issues with it, until yesterday.

I noticed my mic was peaking really hard in OBS and it turns out windows keeps setting the volume of my mic to 100. I have it set to 30 in recording devices Microphone Properties because its too sensitive otherwise.

I have the box for 'Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device' unchecked.

I went into my steam settings and disabled auto mic level. 

The amount windows changes my mic volume seems random depending on what application I open. Its worst with Black Ops 3, as it instantly cranks it to 100%

I have tried reinstalling drivers for my mic, but nothing seems to help. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

On 8/2/2020 at 4:09 PM, The Flying Sloth said:

Restart audio service should fix the clutch when it happens but as for prevention, something is opening and reducing your volume and it's quite possible it's also trying to change your sample rate, unless you figure out what program is causing it there's not much more we can do.

Restarting audio services does fix the issue. I'm thinking I may just have to factory reset, which will be a major pain in the ass.

3 hours ago, Kilrah said:

If it's motherboard audio you should just go to that motherboard's download page.

I tried that, and it causes the same issue

4 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Try to install the drivers from the manufacturer.

I can't find a non scketchy looking place to donwload realtek audio drivers. I'd like to if you know where I could get them?

I'm experiencing a bizarre audio issue on windows 10. My audio cut out one day. The level indicators in windows showed that audio was playing, but nothing was coming out of my speakers.

I noticed my audio level had been changed to 67% as well. I solved the issue by removing my audio device in device manager, and restarting my computer. Windows reinstalled the device and its drivers for me, and the issue was solved. However, the version windows installs by default is an outdated driver, so windows tries to force an update to fix that. When it does, my volume is changed to 67%, and my audio stops working again. My audio breaks the second I click the slider, and the only way to fix it is to completely remove my audio device and its drivers, and restart.

I don't like leaving my PC on all the time, and windows will eventually force and update in order to have the latest audio drivers anyway. I have no idea why this is happening.

Can anyone provide any insight? I would be eternally greatfull!

1 minute ago, mariushm said:

right click on the speaker icon near the clock, select playback devices, then select the sound card you want to use , right click and set it as default .. restart the app that plays audio (ex youtube tab, browser, music player)

 

Windows may default to another sound card in your system (for example sound card built into the video card to route audio through the hdmi cable to your tv/monitor, and maybe you don't have speakers in your monitor and nothing connected to the audio jack in the back of the monitor)

My speakers are the only enabled audio device, and I have restarted my entire PC since this issue arose.

So I just installed the latest windows 10 update, which seemed to be a major one. My computer restarted several times and the update took about half an hour.

The result is that I have no audio output. I can run the 'test' for the audio, and the green level indicator shows that the sound is being output, but I hear nothing.

I have tried updating my audio drivers, and several other solutions that the internet has suggested to no avail. I would really appreciate any insight anyone here has.

Thanks in advance 

I just upgraded to an i5 6500 and GTX 960, but when ever I have vsync on, either in game, or through the nvidia control panel, my frame rate dips as low as thirty when there are particle effects or when there is some form of intense post process effect. With vsync off, everything runs fine.

Am I missing something?

Thanks

12 hours ago, SCHISCHKA said:

The activation  & license of your OEM Win 8 is tied to your mother board thats why you didn't get a product key or a COA label. Now that you have a new PC you need to get Windows retail. Without a product key, which you dont have, your options are to break the law which we cannot advice on LTT, or purchase an appropriate retail license. A cheap license can be found in this video from LTT 

 

Ok thank you for the info

13 hours ago, SCHISCHKA said:

OEM or retail?

OEM I think. My old PC came with win 8.1 and I upgraded when win 10 came out. I can view the product ID but I don't think that's the same thing. I don't know what the product key for win 8.1 was because I never needed it...

I know I may see stupid for not linking my account before I upgraded but it never even occurred to me that a hardware change would create these issues.

I just upgraded my CPU RAM and Motherboard, so basically I built a new PC.

Windows now says I need to activate it. I didn't link my MS account to my install of windows, so the troubleshooter won't work. Is there a way to get windows activated without putting my HDD back into my old system just to add my MS account?

1 minute ago, keNNySOC said:

Depends on the use and GPU, games etc...

GPU is a GTX 960 AMP (4Gb). I plan on (eventually) running a second one in SLI

So I am looking to upgrade my CPU, and I'm thinking of getting an i5-6500. Will this CPU be good enough to run games for the next few years? I thought about an i5-6600k, but found it hard to justify the price.

Also, can you overclock an i5-6500 through the motherboard BIOS?

Thanks in advance!

46 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

unplug the HDD and install windows on the ssd and then remove windows form the old drive. 

46 minutes ago, suchamoneypit said:

Yup. a Lot of SSDs will actually come with software to do just that. I do suggest doing a fresh install though.

33 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Yeah but you shouldn't, it's bad practice.

Do a clean install the proper way, it's not hard.

http://www.howtogeek.com/224342/how-to-clean-install-windows-10/

29 minutes ago, elpiGee said:

I'd personally do a fresh install on the SSD and move whatever important data from the HDD to the SSD before wiping the hdd.

Otherwise yes you can safely do it, you can use programs like Clonezilla or macrium reflect to clone the HDD and its data onto the SSD. Do a backup on important things either way though.

The problem here is that I don't have a CD. The OS I have came with the computer I bought. Is there a way to directly transfer/copy the OS over to an SSD?

I will be upgrading my computer with mostly new parts in the next little while, and one of the parts I am getting will be an SSD. I want my OS (Windows 10 64Bit) on the SSD, but its currently on an HDD.

Can it be transferred from the HDD to the SSD safely?

Thanks

I would go with the Blade. I'm a gamer all the way!

32 minutes ago, Trey222 said:

It is 4GBs but the card really is not fast enough to even use 2GBs. If you can you may want to try to get a 960 as it will perform MUCH better.

So I bought a prebuilt PC from a store. It currently has an r7 240 in it. Would 960 be compatible? I was looking into the 750 ti because it was know for being a good 'plug and play' card.

Edit: The MOBO is a Hewlett-Packard 2B17

So I have decided to upgrade to a gtx 750 Ti. I have heard that the 4Gb version doesn't actually have 4Gb of ram, but rather 2Gb, and can borrow up to an additional 2Gb of system ram.

Does anybody know if this is true?

1 hour ago, max_headroom said:

AMD cpus are bottlenecks.  Zen may change that.

Get yourself a nice i3 and you'd be set.  i5 if your budget allows.

Ok thanks. I'm aware that Intel makes better CPUs than AMD. Also, what is Zen?

Thanks!

So I'm looking to upgrade my GPU from an AMD R7 240 2gb. I want to get and ASUS GTX 750ti 4GB. I want to know if I am going to get a bottleneck elsewhere in my system.

I have an AMD A10-7800 and 8GB DDR3.

Thanks!