In rare cases, players experience an issue where their Steam voice chat is not working. While poor audio quality can be fixed, not being able to communicate via voice chat can be a real disappointment.
How to Fix a Microphone NOT Working on Steam (In-Game Voice Chat)
Since most games on Steam require good communication, you can’t go without talking to your teammates for a long time. To help you out, here are the solutions that can fix your Steam VC in minutes.
Before we start with the solutions, we recommend that you restart Steam and try joining the voice chat again. If it still doesn’t work after restarting, you can use these steps to get it working again:
Selecting the wrong audio input and output device is the most common reason why your Steam Voice Chat is not working. If you are using headphones, you will need to select them as your voice communication channel. To do this, you can follow the steps below: