Mic problems in Source based games.

[Godshelp]

Kay, so.. got a new mic, 3.5MM jack mic, whenever I am playing a source game (L4Ds, TF2, CSS, etc) all that happens is it echoes everything I hear. Not my voice, just what comes out my speakers. I tried turning off mic boost, but it keeps enabling itself, steam has it off. I think since Steam doesn't let me turn it on in the settings, that Mic boost is causing it to mess up in games. Any ideas how to fix this?

[shadowstreak]

Go into your sound settings, and switch your primary recording device to your mic. It's currently recording your soundcard from what I understand.

[Godshelp]

Go into your sound settings, and switch your primary recording device to your mic. It's currently recording your soundcard from what I understand.

I said it works perfectly fine in steam, it's only SOURCE BASED GAMES. It's already set to my mic.

[Deadly]

But you can't play source based games without steam?

[Godshelp]

But you can't play source based games without steam?

I know, lol. What I am saying is in games, I have all the sounds I hear played through when I have my mic button down, even with mic un-plugged. However, steam is still set to "Microphone" device. Voice-chat in friends chat works perfectly fine, it's only in-game it messes up. See what I am saying now? I can record something real quick to demonstrate the problem.

[Stuffinator]

Go into your sound settings, and switch your primary recording device to your mic. It's currently recording your soundcard from what I understand.
do this and
steam is still set to "Microphone" device.
set this to primary recording device and not to your microphone.

also what OS do you use? any extra software for the soundcard?

and plz provide this little demonstration.

[one of them]

Might as well just disable Stereo Mix.

[Godshelp]

I use Windows 7. And I can try disabling "What U Hear" because I use a Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Titanium card.

[Elite]

I had a problem with this. I had to juggle a lot with the settings to get it working.

[Godshelp]

I have fixed it now. I had to reset all my of defaults and then make sure it kept Microphone as a default under my recording options.