Chat over headset, game sound over speakers: How?

[ignisfatuus17]

I picked up a Logitech Precision Gamer headset and when I plugged it into the front audio port of my PC, it seems to conflict with the speakers plugged in at the back. I have Realtek AC97 onboard audio. Is a sound card needed as well, or is there a way to configure it so chat is heard only through the headphones and the game audio through the speakers? The TeamSpeak forums are pathetic, there was nothing there.

 

[Nohr]

As far as I'm aware there's no way to do that with a single computer.

 

[Zelmo3]

Rather, it's not possible with a single sound card. You would need to install another sound card and set up the game and chat to use separate hardware.

 

[Eureka]

Well, what I normally do is keep the microphone plug in, and whenever I want to change to a game, I unplug the speaker and put in the microphone, and turn off the speakers to make sure the other speakers don't play.

Norm

 

[pacho108]

get a usb headset and configure the chat clients audio to use it keeping the pcs audio to itself