RE: mic problems.
feel free to blame Steam for this one. The update to the voice communication is causing certain soundcards and onboard chipsets to run into problems if you have a program that uses your mic (such as Vent) running when you start the game. A work around that may work for you is to start the game first, connect to a server, then minimize the game and start Vent. Unfortunately, this is a hit-or-miss fix. Your in-game voice should work fine if you do it this way, but your Vent may end up being all static filled when you speak. I ran into the same problem on my system and sometimes the work-around would work fine while other times people in Vent would be begging me not to talk because it just blasted static. I bought a USB headset (which offloads the sound processing so that the soundcard is taken out of the equation) and haven't had a problem since.
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