Sound cutting out entirely fix

[KiLLeR, eh]

So 1-2 minutes of playing the game, nearly all SFX and voice just stops. I only get some ambient audio and music. I installed OpenAL again just in case to no avail.

What fixed it was changing 1 or 2 things in the zackzerocfg.txt file that is located in C:\Users\*YOUR NAME HERE*\Documents\ZackZero

I changed SNDDEVICE to 1 and USEEAX to 1 (-1 and 0 were their default values respectively). Not everyone may be able to turn on EAX, but hopefully the first is sufficient for anyone experiencing this.

[USteppin]

Thanks for the info, unfortunately it didn't fix the problem on my system, tried all different variations of numbers. Shame as I was enjoying the game but it's not enjoyable without sound.

[Squall Leonhart]

this fix is only relevant to Creative XFI cards using drivers after 2014, and is caused by a fault in the openal streaming buffer not being cleared.

this game appears to have no positional audio, so set the snddevice to 2, this will set it to use a software al device, while 1 is the same as leaving it to autodetect.