No Sound

[FelixSawyer]

Hello,
I am unable to get any sound from this game (speakers or USB Headphones). I have searched the discussions and tried a bit a Google. Only thing I could find was 'Running the game as Admin'. This does give me sound, but crashes as soon as the UI loads.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

[Bandi]

Try deleting or renaming the game's configuration files' folder at;
Documents\My Games\Dishonored

So let's say rename the Dishonored folder to _oldDishonored
The game will automatically re-generate it.

[FelixSawyer]

Thank you! That worked for the speakers, but still no-go with the headset (likely a driver / razor issue).

I also added -nostartupmovies to the startup options.

[Bandi]

I found this on another thread - not sure if you can do this as well try it:

-Open Razer Synapse
-Select your headphone
-Go to Mixer (4th tab along the top)
-Open Dishonored
-Wait for Dishonored.exe to appear in mixer
-Unmute it

[Bandi]

If that doesn't work, terminate all Razer related processes and see if it works like that.
And if you don't mind, make sure that your headphones are set as the default audio device within Windows.

[FelixSawyer]

Yup, saw that post. I try it tonight and update the thread if it works or not. Thanks again!

[FelixSawyer]

I don't have the Razor Synapse software installed (just one more thing to update). I did find the process for ManOWar71Helper running. I killed that process and the headphones work just fine.

[Bandi]

Nice. If I was you I'd create a batch file which if you click it kills the process and another which runs it again (two shortcuts for convinience - no need to fiddle with task manager).

To do that open up notepad, put this in it:
TASKKILL /f /im ManOWar71Helper.exe
Go on File, Save as, change the "Text document" to "All files" and name it something like:
Run Before Dishonored.bat

And for the other way around, to start it easily once you're finished:
START "C:\Program Files (x86)\Razer\Razer_ManOWar71_Driver\Drivers\SysAudio\ManOWar71Helper.exe"
Go on File, Save as, change the "Text document" to "All files" and name it something like:
Run After Dishonored.bat

This way you could have two convinient "shortcuts" on your desktop which will either kill or start the process - saving you the effort of having to tamper with the task manager every time you try to play DIshonored or stopped playing it.

PS: Many people hate Razer synapse and it's not necessary to install it, however it could help in such cases (but it could also make things worse).

[FelixSawyer]

Thank you so much!

I disabled it from startup since I don't really use the 7.1 Emulation.

I wonder if it would be useful to have an application that runs in the taskbar where you could easily start/stop proccess you manually add. Could even add a context menu so you could find the .exe and easily add it with a right click.

Probably wouldn't take long in a language like VB or AutoIT, (could also C# it but it then you would need .NET).

If you think that would be a useful tool, let me know. I will try to find some time to code it.

Take care & thanks again! I would have never thought of renaming the config directory!

[Digital Shrapnel]

Originally posted by FelixSawyer:

Hello,
I am unable to get any sound from this game (speakers or USB Headphones). I have searched the discussions and tried a bit a Google. Only thing I could find was 'Running the game as Admin'. This does give me sound, but crashes as soon as the UI loads.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Try to manually set your Audio mode to be Stereo - when mine was set to Auto or 5.1, sound would not work.

[Gruffly]

This is an old topic, but I wanted to revisit Dishonored and discovered I had no audio. I figured out that this game doesn't like it when windows audio is set to anything above 16 bit. I changed it back to 16 bit 48khz and the game has audio. Maybe this can help someone else.