I constantly have a bug in which sound effects route as desired, through headphones, but other players voicechat route through monitor… Even Windows audio settings, where headphones are my desired communicating device, does not resolve this problem. Why can’t i choose ingame setting, to have it as i please? Why there is only DEFAULT or COMMS DEVICES? OW needs to have an option here! Just like with PLAYBACK DEVICE, where I can choose whichever device i want.
Only game restart helps, but when I’m in ranked i obviously won’t restart game…
If the voice chat routing is changing mid-match that is very odd and should not occur. Overwatch 2 may have more options for choosing the sound and voice chat outputs, but for now I would recommend to just disable the Nvidia sound device (monitor) so the game doesn’t have an option to route it through there.
Press Windows+R
Type mmsys.cpl into the run prompt, then press Enter
Right click your headset and select Set as Default Device.
Right click your headset and select Set as Default Communications Device.
For every other device right-click each of them and select Disable.
Click the Recording tab
Repeat steps 3, 4, and 5 for your microphone or headset
Now reset the game settings through the Battle.net app which will force Overwatch to re-detect the audio setup.