A Dawn Lacking Sound

[Yahweh The Mad]

Good morning/afternoon/whatever.

So I had hooked my PS4 controller to my PC (via usb) to play Grim Dawn, but now there is no sound. No music, sound effects, nothing. Come to find out that while the controller is hooked up to my PC, there is no audio. This seems to also affect my entire PC, though I first noticed it with Grim Dawn. When I unplug it and restart the game (or any game) everything is fine. Anybody know what's going on here? I assume it has solely to do with the way the controller is set up, but I'm not sure and my initial poking around resulted in nothing. Anybody know why this is? Thanks.

[DirtyMick]

Do you use a headset? Sometimes I put the mic and the speaker jacks in the wrong ones so I don't get sound. Did you possibly do that when you made room for your controller to plug in? Just an idea. Doesn't sound likely actually, given that it works when you unplug the USB. Idk.

[Yahweh The Mad]

No, I typically do not use a headset. What I did was plug the cord into an empty USB slot on the front of my tower. I have no idea why it does this, as I've never had this problem before. I poked around the internet, but it seems like nobody else has had this problem before, Grim Dawn or otherwise. So I figured I'd post on Steam and ask the G.D. vets.

[The_Mess]

o_O

What the?....

Hmmn, maybe the sound's being routed through the PS4 controller? As I think they have a 3.5mm jack inbuilt, though too tired to check. Could be bluetooth though too /shrug

Anyhow - I'd check ingame sound settings to see which device is being used for sound output, along with windows sound settings.

Also - I have never seen or encountered something like this, I've had some weird sound issues on my end, but nothing like this and nothing that couldn't be solved by checking which device sound was being outputted through. Although I can't solve the bug with my Steelseries headset that reversed functionality of the mic button. As off is now on lawl.

[Yahweh The Mad]

Originally posted by The_Mess:

o_O

What the?....

Hmmn, maybe the sound's being routed through the PS4 controller? As I think they have a 3.5mm jack inbuilt, though too tired to check. Could be bluetooth though too /shrug

Anyhow - I'd check ingame sound settings to see which device is being used for sound output, along with windows sound settings.

Also - I have never seen or encountered something like this, I've had some weird sound issues on my end, but nothing like this and nothing that couldn't be solved by checking which device sound was being outputted through. Although I can't solve the bug with my Steelseries headset that reversed functionality of the mic button. As off is now on lawl.

AHA! After reading your comment, I checked into that, and...wouldn't you know it? My dummy computer DID route the sound output to the controller! The PS4 controller does indeed have an itty-bitty speaker built in, so maybe my PC picked up on that, I dunno. I don't know why I didn't think to check the audio output, but to be fair I've never seen anything like that happen before. Thanks!

[The_Mess]

Sweet!

As for why this may have happened - I blame Microsoft, wouldn't be the first time a weird as hell bug was generated by their OS doing something it shouldn't on the addition of new hardware drivers... Much rarer these days of course thank f*ck.

And at least these days the OS wont crash like it did in the early XP days, though 95 was even more "fun" from what I've heard of lawl. Had plenty of fun with XP and regedit + CMD stuff though, and bad Microsoft updates on Vista and & 7, which I once utterly f*cked an install of it up so bad due to memory corruption a reinstall was the only option.

Now if only MS would finally add error checking to file permissions so I never have to see a negative review for Grim Dawn whinging about not being able to change anything. They did it with the registry, a source of many a windows BSoD, and with drivers with the side-by-side system. And permissions remains a constant source of bs.

[Yahweh The Mad]

Oh yes, 95 WAS fun, 98 even moreso. Honestly, I'm probably switching over to Linux with my next setup, which hopefully I can buy parts for soon. Currently gaming on an i3 4th-gen and a 750Ti with 16 gigs of ram, so an upgrade would be nice lol.

[The_Mess]

Ouch, I missed all that fun because my family was, and still is, poor. At least though you didn't have to deal with Windows ME :3

Also - since I'm stuck on welfare with only board to pay I'm slowly chipping away at the current upgrade myself. Helps NZ welfare, namely the Supported Living Payment pays me a semi-decent amount and part-payment systems like afterpay allow to buy new parts. But my ADHD increasing in severity has derailed getting a new GPU this year, as the weekly payments for one are beyond my ability without sticking down half the price. And NZ prices are bloody expensive.

Can get a Ryzen 5800X 3D though :3 But currently paying off a newer router, so can't grab one until the end of June.

And I used to use an ancient socket 775 Intel Xeon e5540 set up with a AMD 470 4GB GPU shoved in, so I feel yeah on the "need an upgrade" thing, though I would have killed for 16GB of RAM, 8GB (of DDR2 lawl) was super restrictive. Only upgraded due to the SATA chipset on the motherboard becoming temperamental as hell, took repeated reboots for it to work and the motherboard didn't have the ability to assign PCI-e lanes, so couldn't use a SATA expansion card to bypass it either. Only found that out after buy the expansion card...

Currently using a 3700X, AMD 590 OC 8GB and 32GB of RAM, but windows still runs off a HDD, because I keep forgetting to get a SSD due to my ADHD. Only got 2 M.2 slots though, as I went for 8 SATA ports for more data hording, with a cheap samsung 500GB installed in one slot.

[Yahweh The Mad]

Lol no, I skipped out on ME. I used it a few times, saw no reason to upgrade until XP came out. I've been using the unit I got now for a while and it's held up admirably, but it's age has really started to show in the last year or so.

What you got sounds like a pretty solid setup, that 3700X and 590 probably compliment each other nicely. Plus, 32 gigs of RAM sounds just about right for that. Honestly I'm probably gonna go "budget" with my next rig. Even then, it'd be way better than what I got lol. Honestly, a modern LGA 1700 Celeron would dust my little 4th gen i3 lol. So I'd probably go with a modern i3 along with something like an RTX 3050/60 and AT LEAST 16 gigs of RAM.

EDIT: Yeah, I was right. A modern Celeron WOULD dust my old i3: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/2317vs4709/Intel-i3-4160-vs-Intel-Celeron-G6900