Headphones loose quality in games whenever I open them

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To start off, I have a pair of new Cubitt Headphones I was testing out, but whenever I join the game Hell Divers 2 (the only game I've tested it in since I'm aware of it being an issue with my old headphones) the quality drops off terribly, I have tried about every fix I could find on reddit and the internet, including turning off spatial sound, disabling the microphone on it altogether, changing audio channels from 2 to 1 (which seemed to fix it for about 0.1 seconds until it tells my this device doesn't support it and goes back to bad quality, doubt it's related to the fix as it probably just restarts the headphones [?]), so I'll take anything that might help.

Maybe it's just an issue with this brand specifically? I used to have another brand that would have the same issue in a different game, but it would fix itself when I joined lobbies so I never played close attention to it.

I'm on windows 11 if that helps.

Posted Dec 3, 2025, 1:58 AM UTC

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