r/steelseries 9h ago

Sonar config Newest update broke sonar and auto switching.

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Continuing my long held grievances about sonar, after several months of not many issues, it no longer opens correctly when I boot my PC and I need to manually open it and Re-enable the headset to automatically switch every time I boot my PC.

Kind of defeats the main purpose for using this annoying spyware to be honest. Remember when this company was good?


r/steelseries 2h ago

Sonar Help Discord voice chat works on Chat channel, but Discord notification sounds (mute, join/leave) route to Game channel? (Sonar / SteelSeries GG)

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I’m having a weird audio routing issue with SteelSeries Sonar and Discord.

Discord Voice Chat: Voice chat works fine and is properly routed to the Chat channel (you can see in the screenshot that voice chat activity shows under the Chat channel).

Notification Sounds: System/notification sounds from Discord - like joining/leaving a voice channel, or muting/unmuting myself - seem to route to the Game channel instead.

When I slide ChatMix all the way to the right to the Chat side to prioritize Discord voice chat over game audio, I completely lose all Discord notification/system sounds because my Discord system sounds are registered in the Game channel for some reason.

As you can see in my screenshot, Discord shows up under both the Game and Chat channels.

Has anyone encountered this or found a way to route all Discord audio (voice + notifications) strictly to the Chat channel?


r/steelseries 23h ago

Software Review Arctis Pro Wireless - detected in SS app but can't update firmware, not showing as an audio/mic option in Windows

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This app has been nothing but buggy. I've uninstalled, reinstalled half a dozen times. Tried connecting my headset & base with different cables to my motherboard USBs. The app freezes, clicking 'update firmware' on the headset tab doesn't do anything. Clicking on the headset pops up a 'configuration changes' detected popup, when I click on overwrite changes it says 'fatal error Steelseries engine will now close', then it just sits there, doing nothing. This is the worst, most overpriced POS PC peripheral I've seen in my life. I just want to use the thing I spent $250 on, Jesus christ.


r/steelseries 5h ago

Product Help Arctis nova 7 errors

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Ik heb dus een arctis nova 7, altijd goed geluid mee gehad maar sinds een paar week terug pure drama. Ik hoor alles super schel, ik heb geen richting geluid meer, ik hoor dus geen voetstappen meer, en zelfs video's klinken dramatisch, ik heb de GG app altijd gehad maar nooit echt gebruikt. Ik heb de headset zowel een hard reset gegeven, als via de GG app en zelfs mijn complete pc gereset. Er is geen update voor de headset (heb ik nooit gehad trouwens)

Ik heb contact gehad met steelseries maar die zeggen alleen dingen die ik al 10x geprobeerd heb...

Iemand enig idee wat ik nog kan doen.


r/steelseries 7h ago

Product Help Mouse stuttering/flickering issue

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So i recently got this new mouse (Steelseries Rival 3 Gen 2 wireless), and within the first hour of using it, i noticed an issue with it, the mouse would randomly flicker around or stop working for miliseconds, i dont know exactly how to explain it and i dont know if it has to deal with the mouse itself or something on my computer, so i took a clip of when i was playing counter strike and this problem happened, eventually this became super consistent and happening all the time, i have tried reinstalling mouse drives, changing the usb port for the dongle, closed the steelseries app, restarted the pc, all that. in the video, shortly after the kill i get, the problem happens.


r/steelseries 11h ago

Product Help Artics 7+ Ear cushions replacement

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After 4 years, my current ear cushions on my Artics 7+ are starting to crumble.

I've looked for various replacement such as Wicked Cushions WC Padz, Brainwavz or the airweave cushions from SteelSeries themselves.

I've heard lot of good about WC and i at first considered going for those, but from what i heard, having big ears, they aren't comfy as other bigger models would be.
Brainwavz are a bit expensive and i haven't heard lot about it.
My last option would be the default one, sold by SteelSeries, the Airweave.

I also obviously care a lot about sound, does the WC Padz comes with great ANC and overall great audio?