BGM Playback Failure

[An Irate Walrus]

I posted a similar topic roughly a year ago--and in the interim, I have not found a solution to my concern. The devs were kind enough to respond last time, but no solution to my issue was available at the time.

I shall be brief:

When I play Oath in Felghana, the BGM playback cruises along just fine until one of two things happens. Either 1.) I enter a boss encounter, or 2.) I die more than once in a given area. When either of these two things happens, all BGM playback ceases.

Sound effects remain intact, but the BGM falls off completely. I've had this problem since I purchased the game in July of 2013, and I'm curious if any solutions have offered themselves since then. It's not as if I play Felghana constantly, but Ys III came out when I was in eighth grade, so I enjoy the nostalgia trip from time to time (and the XSeed update is lovely)--I'd just appreciate it if the music didn't cut out randomly.

My specs, for reference (assuming this will help):

i5 3570k @ 3.40 GHz
16 GB DDR 3 RAM
EVGA GTX 780 Ti 3GB
ASUS Xonar Digital Audio (I can substitute nVidia sound if necessary)

[KopeAcetic]

I've actually had the exact same problem for the same amount of time. My sound card is the ASUS Xonar Essence STX - I'm thinking this might be the problem.

The same issue happens in YS Origins.

[An Irate Walrus]

I've tried running it through the sound board for the motherboard, and that doesn't solve the problem either; I'll be switching my audio output over to the GTX digital audio sometime later this week, and will report back if that solves anything--if you come up with anything in the meantime, please let me know!

[gaiachaos]

Your hardware is not the problem. You need to install the OGG vorbis driver because the music files are all in .ogg format and that driver is needed to correctly loop the music. Try and see if that solves the problem.

[KopeAcetic]

When I attempted to install these it said I already had them installed (I previously had an issue with the opening cinematics of both Oath and Origins not playing, and someone suggested different codecs which I installed).

I'll try to play the game agan and let you know. Thank you very much for the response.

[KopeAcetic]

No, installing the vorbis ogg codec driver didn't work :(.

[gaiachaos]

Wait...what is your operating system?

[KopeAcetic]

Windows 7 64 bit

[gaiachaos]

Ok, go to control panel > hardware and sound > sound (manage audio devices). Then look for the communications tab. Is "do nothing" selected?

[KopeAcetic]

Reduce the volume of other sounds by 80%

[gaiachaos]

Select "do nothing" (which is my setting).

[KopeAcetic]

I have gone ahead and changed the setting, I'll do some testing, thanks for the responses btw

[KopeAcetic]

Nope, it took a few BGM changes but after 5 or 6 changes it stopped working again :(.

[gaiachaos]

Check your settings again to see if the OS re-ticked that option.

[KopeAcetic]

No, it's currently still on "Do Nothing"

[gaiachaos]

I see. Try this: Go to the ASUS Essence STX audio center. You'll have to look for that somewhere. Then check to make sure the audio is feeding through the appropriate device (speakers or headphones). Play around with the settings until you get the desired results, hopefully. The problem kinda sounds like the music portion is being erroneously transferred to a different device.