PSA: Corsair iCue has a process that cripples wireless headphones, including its flagship products (and no one at Corsair seems to care). Disabling this service fixes the issue. I looked all over the internet and only found the fix in this one comment.
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Someone will thank you for this in seven years
Imma dump some search keywords here for future use.
Gaming headphones not working, corsair headphones issue, issue with gaming headphones, buggy audio in headphones
Watch this actually prevents iCUE from destroying the drive it is installed on and that’s why Corsair cannot just remove it.
Could you please put some context to the “solution”? Like what issue specifically was solved in your case?
I know icue isn’t highly regarded and I’d personally rather would run without it. At the same time it’s the only way to get decent EQ settings for my Corsair Virtuoso SE. Haven’t experienced any issues with it that I would relate to icue. only the occasional disconnect from the wireless dongle (headset blinking red, fast) which is fixed 99% by replugging the dongle.
I had constant microstutters every 20 or so seconds in all games with rtx 4080. Very minor but noticeable.
After lengthy investigation and reading online, I uninstalled icue and no more stutter. Icue is a garbage program and it causes issues to all kinds of things. It was overriding my other lighting peripherals and all kinds of weird shit. And the best part is, half the time it doesn’t even register its own products.
Could this be why my corsair hs80 randomly cuts out for half a second every few seconds sometimes? Because I’ve been trying to find anything about it but keep coming up empty.
Use Afternurner. Use OpenRGB. Use HWMonitor.
RGB is for chumps. Get it through your thick skulls.
I have iCUE and a Razer headset. Can’t say I’ve ever encountered this stuttering issue. What do you mean by “Gaming headset” exactly ? Is it specific to a Corsair headset ? Did you open a ticket with Corsair about it ?
icue is a hot load of trash… the latest firmware update broke my Harpoon pro mouse, so i had to downgrade.
It also doesnt seem to recognise my Asus GPU anymore, it did for a while
Following this as I have some audio issues on discord , but unsure what’s causing it , and I have iCue
im dumping my corsair gear because of iCue, its crashing out my mouse and keyboard here mid game, only resolution is to replug them or restart, cant take the instability