What is ‘Discord picking up game audio’ in Windows 10?
If you are facing ‘Discord picking up game audio’ issue in your Windows 10 computer while you are playing and chatting on a voice channel, then you are in right place for the solution. Here, you will be guided with easy steps/methods to resolve the issue.
‘Discord’: Discord is VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), instant messaging and digital distribution platform. This service offers you to communicate with voice & video calls, text messaging, media and files in private chats or as part of communities called ‘Servers’. This service is available for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, iPadOS, Android and in Web browsers. Discord service has over 350 million registered users and over150 million monthly active users.
However, several users reported that they faced ‘Discord picking up game audio’ issue in their Windows 10 computer while playing game. This issue indicates when you play game with Discord service opened for the voice chats with your friends, then you experience game sound interfering Discord’s voice chat.
It means you are unable to communicate with your friends on Discord while gaming comfortably and all the times you experience game sound that is interfering Discord’s chat. This issue indicates Discord is selecting your game sound and cause disturbance while voice chat with game players on Discord service.
The possible reason behind this issue can be your system sound settings where in your sound settings, the input device or output device is selected as ‘Stereo Mix’, it prompts that output ad input sounds to mix. This issue can also be occurred due to some issue with sound drivers like corruption or outdated sound drivers. You can perform sound driver update in order to fix the issue.
Another possible reason behind the issue can be wrong plug-in headphones are connected in keyboard or to the computer. Some keyboards provide USB connectors for other devices to plug in and due to certain bugs, it can cause this type of issue. It is possible to resolve the issue with our instructions. Let’s go for the solution.
How to fix Discord picking up game audio issue in Windows 10?
Method 1: Fix ‘Discord picking up game audio’ with ‘PC Repair Tool’
If this issue is occurred due to some problems in your Windows computer, then you can try to fix the issue with ‘PC Repair Tool’. This software offers you to find and fix BSOD errors, EXE errors, DLL errors, problems with programs/applications, malware or viruses issues, system files or registry issues and other system issues with just few clicks.
Method 2: Disable Stereo Mix Settings
One possible way to fix the issue is to disable Stereo Mix settings in your Windows computer.
Step 1: Right-click on ‘Sound/Volume’ icon in taskbar or in system tray, and select ‘Sounds’ button
Step 2: In the ‘Sound’ window, click on ‘Recording’ tab, find and right-click ‘Stereo Mix’ option, select ‘Disable ’, and then save the changes.
Step 3: Now, open Discord App in your Windows computer and click ‘User Settings’ icon
Step 4: In ‘Settings’ page, select ‘Voice and Video settings’ option in left pane, and in right pane, select your headphones as ‘Output Device’ and your microphone as ‘Input Device’ and then save the changes.
Method 3: Plugging-in to different audio jack
This issue can also be occurred due to audio device connection problem. You should make sure your audio device like microphone and headphones are properly connected into correct audio jack or USB plugin into your computer. You can disconnect and then reconnect audio device to computer in order to fix the issue. Also, you can disconnect audio device and connect to different audio jack of your computer or keyboard and check if it works for you.
Method 4: Change Microphone settings
You can fix the issue by applying certain changes in microphone settings in your computer.
Step 1: Right-click on ‘Speaker/Sound’ icon in taskbar or in system tray, and select ‘Sounds’ option
Step 2: In ‘Sound’ window, click ‘Recording’ tab, right-click on your microphone and select ‘Properties’
Step 3: In ‘Properties’ window, click ‘Listen’ tab and untick ‘Listen to this device’ checkbox
Step 4: Now, click ‘Advanced’ tab, tick both checkboxes under ‘Exclusive’ heading, and then hit ‘Apply’ and ‘Ok’ button to save the changes and check if the issue is resolved.
Method 5: Disable Sound Drivers
One possible way to fix the issue is to disable all drivers that are installed except for Windows default drivers.
Step 1: Open ‘Sound’ window using above method and click ‘Playback’ tab, right-click on both ‘Realtek’ and ‘NVIDIA High Definition’ drivers, and select ‘Disable’
Step 2: Once done, restart your computer and check if the issue is resolved.
Method 6: Uninstall and reinstall sound drivers
This issue can also be occurred if sound driver is corrupt or not properly installed. You can uninstall and then reinstall sound driver in order to fix the issue.
Step 1: Open ‘Device Manager’ in Windows 10 computer via Windows Search Box and expand ‘Sound, Video and Game Controllers’ category, right-click on sound drivers and select ‘Uninstall’. Follow on-screen instructions to finish uninstall. Once uninstalled, restart your computer
Step 2: Restarting computer will automatically install the necessary drivers in computer and once done, please check if the issue is resolved.
Download or reinstall sound drivers update in Windows 10 [Automatically]
You can also try to get latest updates for all Windows drivers including sound drivers using Automatic Driver Update Tool. You can get this tool through button/link below.
Conclusion
I am sure this post helped you on How to fix Discord picking up game audio issue in Windows 10 with several easy steps/methods. You can read & follow our instructions to do so. That’s all. For any suggestions or queries, please write on comment box below.
