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Hi, since about April 2th or 3th I'm experiencing some serious microphone issues when playing Trackmania.

I noticed it first when I was starting one day to get some sound "cuts" or drops for maybe 0.5s randomly while I was driving ingame, cutting every sound and not only Trackmania. Then things quickly got worse when playing a map randomly caused my microphone to get kinda disabled on Discord (mates not hearing me anymore, kinda not detected but just needed 3 clicks in Discord settings to get it working again, but this needed each time).
Almost every time I started to play on a map, sound would happen to cut for ~0.5s in the 2 first minutes and at the same time "disable" my microphone on Discord as explained before.
Third thing, sometimes when playing a map my microphone would quickly make some horrible sounds to my mates on DIscord, me not hearing them though.

Notice it all happens when playing on a map, never when menu-ing or any else in TM.

I don't have many ideas of what could cause this, never seen anyone else experiencing anything similar, so I tried few things, but not working:

  • I tried to check if TM was detected as using my microphone on my PC but it's actually not the case
  • Tried to remove Openplanet, not changing anything
  • Closed Discord and everything else than TM, played a map and still got those issues (sound cutting, also recorded my mic on streamlabs, audacity behind while playing and I could hear the issue)
  • Tried to totally unplug my pad and then play a map with my kb, still got the issue
  • Untick the "Allow apps to take the exclusive control of the microphone"
  • Change peripheral in ingame sound settings in TM
  • Maybe some other random things not working either


Here's a clip with sound of PC + microphone recorded and me playing to get things clearer:

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Thanks for help

about 2 years ago - Ubi-TheBerry - Direct link

Hey @nidatm ,

Thank you for reaching out and reporting this to us!

So this happens regardless of the program using your mic (Discord / Streamlabs / etc)?

May we please also know;

  • The model of headset / mic you're using
  • Does this happen when testing with a different mic
  • Does this continue after verifying the game's files


Thank you!

about 2 years ago - Ubi-Perseids - Direct link

Hi there, @nidatm!

Thanks for the update, and sorry to hear that those previous troubleshooting steps did not help. It is strange that this happens regardless of what program you are using, and also only occurs when playing a map in Trackmania. You mentioned this started at the same time as several updates to the game, can you recall which update was released when you first noticed this issue began?

There are some troubleshooting guides that I would like you to try. The first one is just a general troubleshooting guide for issues with in-game audio/sounds here. The second guide is technically for in-game voice chat troubleshooting but I'd like you to please try the steps to see if they help since the issue you are having is also related to your microphone.

Please update us and let us know if these steps help or not! Thank you!