All Vasya is saying is that should this post is in '
Mapping Questions & Discussion' when it would be more accurate to have placed it in 'Team Fortress 2 talk' or 'Off Topic'. (Not to resurrect that argument, but I just felt it was kind of rude to sarcastically / reprimand Vasya with down votes when they brought a valid point).
However, for solutions.
Try:
1.) Standard Solution
- Click Start, go to ⚙ Settings> Privacy Settings> Microphone.
- Turn On "Allow apps to access your microphone"
- Should be fixed then
2.) Another solution
- Copy the file dsound.dll from your Windows\system32
- replace the dsound.dll in CSGO/Tf2 folder
- You will have to find the Tf2 Alternative of:
- SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Counter-Strike Global Offensive\dsound.dll
3.) A technical grey area solution
- right click my computer>properties>advanced system settings>enviroment variables>
- click "user variables for commander"
- click "new"
- on the top line input: devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices
- on the second line input: 1
- click ok
- now go to right click my computer>properties>device manager> sound, video and game controllers
- go through every greyed out device and manually uninstall the drivers for each.
- WARNING: Some people accidentally uninstalled a few drivers, which caused their headphones to stop working: saying "It says they're not plugged in"
- tl:dr - be cautious of this method
- Should be fixed
4.) Another Technical Solution
- If you right click on the speaker icon in the taskbar of windows and go to recording devices
- see your headset there and enabled but it will go away then come back in 5 second intervals over and over
- this constant change caused CSGO/Tf2 to not initialize the recording device because it kept going in and out.
- To fix it:
- right click it when it came back
- quickly go to properties> advanced and in the drop down changed from 16 bit CD quality to 16 bit DVD quality and that made it stop disappearing and now CS/Tf2 is fine.
- May have to fiddle with 16 bit and select other options
5.)
Worst Case: If all fails then you just gotta restore your computer to factory settings
6.) Sketchy Third Party App (
https://sourceforge.net/projects/equalizerapo/)
- Try downloading "Equalizer APO".
- If you cant find it after downloading, go to C:\Program Files\Equalizer APO\Editor.exe
- After running the program, it will detect the problem and requested a pc restart.
Just a disclaimer: Half of this was cross referenced from a CS:GO forum with the exact same issue while the others were referenced from a Tf2 forum.
Anyway, Good luck & hopefully you can fix your problem!