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Hi all

I have some very frustrating audio bugs that's been occuring for the past few patches. I can't say exactly which patch introduced these problems, but I've had them for nearly a year now.

Sometimes when I minimize or tab out of the game (exclusive fullscreen or windowed doen't seem to matter). Eventually microphone chat breaks. Also some bizarre bugs start appearing throughout gameplay. When I tab back into the game, the problems I experience are:

  • No one hears my voice
  • I can't hear anyone speak
  • The voice indicator on the right side of the screen doesn't appear for my team mates anymore. But mine appears when I press Push To Talk keybind


Voice chat being broken is my biggest issue, but I also get some bugs that only occur at the end of a round/replay

  • The player being followed during replay; their gunshots produce no sound, or the gunshot sound plays in repeat permenantly until the next round starts
  • No audio on drones
  • No movement audio (player running, crouch/prone noises)
  • As soon as the round ends the player camera teleports to a random position in the map, usually looking at a wall or the floor
  • When the victory screen appears the camera is facing a random wall or floor so I cannot see the squad characters victory pose


I don't really know how else I can describe this. Its the most baffling series of bugs ever that seem to happen from an event that isn't even related. Obviously a solution is to never alt-tab but I can't really commit to that. Also I have absolutely no problems with every other game I play except Siege.

So far i've tried reinstalling Siege, drivers, Windows (previously Win10 2009, downgraded to 1909 and issues persist). I have no other input devices, I've disabled and enabled Windows Spatial Sound.

My PC specs:
Windows 10 1909
Ryzen 3950X
32GB RAM (XMP enabled)
RTX 3080
SoundBlaster ZxR soundcard (my only output device)
ModMic 5 USB (only input device)
almost 4 years ago - Ubi-TheBerry - Direct link
Originally Posted by greyze
Hi all

I have some very frustrating audio bugs that's been occuring for the past few patches. I can't say exactly which patch introduced these problems, but I've had them for nearly a year now.

Sometimes when I minimize or tab out of the game (exclusive fullscreen or windowed doen't seem to matter). Eventually microphone chat breaks. Also some bizarre bugs start appearing throughout gameplay. When I tab back into the game, the problems I experience are:

  • No one hears my voice
  • I can't hear anyone speak
  • The voice indicator on the right side of the screen doesn't appear for my team mates anymore. But mine appears when I press Push To Talk keybind


Voice chat being broken is my biggest issue, but I also get some bugs that only occur at the end of a round/replay

  • The player being followed during replay; their gunshots produce no sound, or the gunshot sound plays in repeat permenantly until the next round starts
  • No audio on drones
  • No movement audio (player running, crouch/prone noises)
  • As soon as the round ends the player camera teleports to a random position in the map, usually looking at a wall or the floor
  • When the victory screen appears the camera is facing a random wall or floor so I cannot see the squad characters victory pose


I don't really know how else I can describe this. Its the most baffling series of bugs ever that seem to happen from an event that isn't even related. Obviously a solution is to never alt-tab but I can't really commit to that. Also I have absolutely no problems with every other game I play except Siege.

So far i've tried reinstalling Siege, drivers, Windows (previously Win10 2009, downgraded to 1909 and issues persist). I have no other input devices, I've disabled and enabled Windows Spatial Sound.

My PC specs:
Windows 10 1909
Ryzen 3950X
32GB RAM (XMP enabled)
RTX 3080
SoundBlaster ZxR soundcard (my only output device)
ModMic 5 USB (only input device)
Hey there greyze,

Thank you for reporting this, I'm sorry to see you're encountering these issues!

Just to clarify, the latter list of issues you've noted, replay gunshots missing and so on; are these in general are also a result of alt-tabbing?

Would it also be at all possible to capture any clips demonstrating this?
almost 4 years ago - Ubi-TheBerry - Direct link
Originally Posted by El_Mediocre_
Mic works fine when I start the game but as soon as I return to it after alt+tab, the mic button does nothing.
Hey there El_Mediocre_,

I've merged your thread here as it's for the same issue.

Please refer to greyze's post and let me know if you experience any of the further detailed issues they've described, as well as provide a clip if possible.

Thank you!