Question Alt-tabbing occasionally makes my microphone stop receiving input.

[Blazemaster16]

I have had this problem for a few months now where I am talking to my friends in Discord while playing games and when I alt-tab a few times my microphone stops receiving input. It is not just a Discord thing it also happens to my streaming software and Windows also cannot receive any input. I do not know what is causing this issue and I would greatly appreciate any advice. Thank you.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

I have had this problem for a few months now where I am talking to my friends in Discord while playing games and when I alt-tab a few times my microphone stops receiving input. It is not just a Discord thing it also happens to my streaming software and Windows also cannot receive any input. I do not know what is causing this issue and I would greatly appreciate any advice. Thank you.

Hey there,

Please list your PC specs.

We can advise further once we have that info.

 

[Blazemaster16]

Hey there,

Please list your PC specs.

We can advise further once we have that info.

Ryzen 7 5800x
Asus Tuf Gaming B550M-Plus
2x8Gb Gskill Trident 3600mhz CL18 or 16 (I do not remember which)
Samsung 870 Evo 500Gb SATA SSD (boot drive)
Crucial P1 1Tb NVME (Game drive)
Seagate FireCuda 2TB Hardrive(Game drive)
EVGA FTW3 3080 OC 8Gb
Phanteks P300A Mesh (case)

I hope this is enough

 

[Ralston18]

Take a look in Reliability History and Event Viewer.

Either one or both tools may be capturing some error event, warning, or even an informational event that occurs just before or at the time the microphone stops receiving input.

Reliability History provides a timeline format that may show the problem or some pattern of events that leads to the problem. User friendly.

Event Viewer requires more time and effort to understand.

To help:

http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-3128616/windows-event-viewer.html

Take your time with Event Viewer - no need to rush through it.

In both tools you can click any given entry to learn more about the error. Details may or may not be helpful.

Likely some app is getting launched as you cycle through alt-tabs. Or one of those apps, even if not the culprit, may be causing something else to happen.

Perhaps triggering another app (via Task Scheduler) to launch and that app, unknown to you, gains control of of microphone input. Which may, for that app, be disabled.