In ARMA, voice and chat are tied in direct chat channel. I feel quite lucky for sorting out my problem, since no error messages has helped me.

I hope that help you. In case it does, please update the ticket setting "Reproducibility" from "unable to reproduce" to "Reproducible" or so, and the description/title accordingly. That should help the developers.

BIS should really investigate this issue, as Realtek Audio driver are quite popular and many people are subject to this bug (*1). Maybe not a BIS fault, though.

(*1)

• http://www.dayzrp.com/t-can-t-see-people-writing-or-hear-them-talking?pid=6814#pid6814
• http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/17195-cant-see-other-peoples-direct-communication-chat/?p=1396018

I'm pretty sure this is a problem related to Realtek Audio Driver (yes, audio driver). I had the same problem with ARMA 2 and have sorted out it in this way.

Follow these steps:

• Open Control Panel -> Sound -> Recording tab
• Click with the right mouse button inside the window and enable "Show Disabled Devices"
• Click on "Stereo Mix" and then change the properties to enable it.

This is like it looks like: http://imgur.com/Qjtljsk

Plugging a microphone and then run ARMA 3, should work as well.

I don't know whether the developers are aware of this problem. I hope they fix it even in older ARMA versions.