Question / Help Headset Mic works, but not in game chat.

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As the title says, my headset Mic works perfectly fine when I'm streaming and talking to my viewers, but when I go into a duo with my viewers on a game the person I'm in a game with cannot hear me within gamechat so they have to listen to the stream, but obviously there is a delay. How can I get my mic to work for streaming and speaking in game chat?

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Due to how streaming is implemented in general, there is always some delay between you feeding video and audio into OBS and your viewer getting video and audio out of his browser. This delay is always some seconds.
If you want to speak with one of your viewers directly without this delay, you have to establish an additional direct voice channel to him, so he can listen to what you say directly, not via stream. If you use some voip gamechat, you have your direct channel in addition to your stream. Make sure your mic is going to that voicechat in addition to going into OBS, and make sure your viewer is listening to that channel and not (only) to your stream. If you want your viewer's voice appear on the stream, you have to grab the voicechat as additional audio source and feed it into OBS.
 
koala said:
Due to how streaming is implemented in general, there is always some delay between you feeding video and audio into OBS and your viewer getting video and audio out of his browser. This delay is always some seconds.
If you want to speak with one of your viewers directly without this delay, you have to establish an additional direct voice channel to him, so he can listen to what you say directly, not via stream. If you use some voip gamechat, you have your direct channel in addition to your stream. Make sure your mic is going to that voicechat in addition to going into OBS, and make sure your viewer is listening to that channel and not (only) to your stream. If you want your viewer's voice appear on the stream, you have to grab the voicechat as additional audio source and feed it into OBS.
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Thanks for the reply, how do I go about doing that? I've looked and cannot find how to do this
 
I cannot help much more, since I don't know anything about your local setup. And even if I knew, I don't know how your specific software operates. You might perhaps get help with Voicemeeter Banana and its accompanying VB-Audio virtual audio devices to get your audio mixed and routed as you need it. https://www.vb-audio.com/Voicemeeter/banana.htm
There are also some helpful guides about Voicemeeter and routing/splitting audio in the Resources section of the forum.
 
koala said:
Due to how streaming is implemented in general, there is always some delay between you feeding video and audio into OBS and your viewer getting video and audio out of his browser. This delay is always some seconds.
If you want to speak with one of your viewers directly without this delay, you have to establish an additional direct voice channel to him, so he can listen to what you say directly, not via stream. If you use some voip gamechat, you have your direct channel in addition to your stream. Make sure your mic is going to that voicechat in addition to going into OBS, and make sure your viewer is listening to that channel and not (only) to your stream. If you want your viewer's voice appear on the stream, you have to grab the voicechat as additional audio source and feed it into OBS.
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What was the point of this reply? It’s like you didn’t even read the question.
 
So what is your approach or solution for this one year old abandoned thread? If you have none, your post is as pointless as you assume mine is, and I'm going to assume you didn't even read my answers.
 
So ya I'm having the same issue. Mic works fine when streaming but not in game. Your answer to the question had nothing to do with the issue. More if the issue was he were trying to talk to people in his stream. Please understand people in stream can hear me fine. As stated he as well. Also your answer... Text book copy and paste from a kb (knowledge base or ki knowledge inquiry) you just pulled up. I seen this many times working ter 1 tech call centers. The question is close to what the kb said and might work.

As a IT professional myself I have done everything from checking in game settings, computer settings, switch hardware. Reset the game, tried different games, and updated drivers. I'm here because all worked fine before OBS was installed. Now that it's not working I would like some input to resolving the issue.
 
Unfortunately, neither you nor the thread opener nor anyone else gave any specific information about the setup at hand. Not even the name of the game was mentioned. Does this game really has some integrated ingame chat available that's not working? How is OBS and the game configured?Without all this it's only possible to give some general answer.

If the game you are talking about is actually providing some ingame chat, and the topic is about a not working ingame chat, it seems to me this is not about OBS configuration, it's about the game configuration. May be you didn't configure the correct mic device in the game configuration, but that's all guesswork.
 
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