counterstrike + windows 7 sound weirdness

[elpolloloco]

Every once in a while I'll be playing Counterstrike and just randomly when I press K to talk, sometimes the counterstrike volume in windows 7 just magically dips down to like 10%

Anyone else ever have this issue?

(For those of you who still use XP, Windows 7 has a feature in the volume mixer now that lets you adjust the volumn of individual programs running, which is kinda cool).

---------- Post added at 11:08 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:57 AM ----------

Just did some experimenting. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the K key itself because I changed the binding to L for my voice comm and then the volume thing started happening with L instead of K, so the issue appears to be linked to voice communication

weird

[BladeTwinSwords]

it happens whenever i change my name

[Rosie]

I still use XP but whenever I leave Itunes running it happens to me too. Just a thought.

[Steamer]

Recording & Playback Device > Properties > Advanced > Untick Allow application to take exclusive control of this device.

I do NOT like the software layer in Win 7.

[StarsMine]

never had this problem O.o

[elpolloloco]

Thanks steamer I'll give it a shot.

I have to admit, I like this new feature of Windows 7. Back in XP I always wished there was a way to individually change the volume levels for each application.

I just don't like how by default it seems to let the allow the application to control this. Seems kind of ridiculous that they would make this the default.

It used to happen occasionally whenever I went into the advanced options. If I had iTunes open, it would bring iTunes down with me. It's a pretty dumb bug. If you don't realize it's happening then you think maybe your volume just got turned down, so you jack your speakers up and then if you get an IM or a windows alert... BAAAAM!! Your ears bleed.

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I didn't see the "recording and playback" area. Firggin windows has this idea that they can just rearrange the way things are organized in the control panel every release and call it a new "Feature" when all they're doing is jumbling everything up and confusing the shit out of you

But anyways. I went into the device manager to get to my audio device, and found a tab under "sounds" that reads "communication" that apparently has a question:

"Windows can automatically adjest the volume of different sounds when you are using your PC to place or receive telephone calls. When Windows detects communication activity"

* mute all other sounds
* Reduce the volume of other sounds by 80%
* Reduce the volume of other sounds by 50%
* Do nothing

The second option is enabled by default. STUPID. I assume defaults to this because computers nowadays are coming with bluetooth standard and people are starting to rout their blackberry calls to their computer. But seriously. If someone isn't smart enough to know they need to reduce the volume of other programs to hear then they're fucking retarded.

What's even weirder is that voice communication over counterstrike automatically makes windows think it's on a phone call. DrRrrRR!!

Good job microsoft!

[Tickle Me Emo]

Weird, I've never had this issue and that option was enabled for me too (disabled it just to be safe, and because it's stupid that it's enabled by default).