Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut

Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut

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Svensational Mar 20, 2016 @ 6:48pm
No Audio on startup, reinstall, etc
I don't know if anyone else has had this problem, but I need some assistance regarding the audio. All the audio sliders are where they should be, but I get no audio, period. Only seems to be happening with this game, have tried others (Chroma Squad, Dead Space 2), with just fine results. No audio on startup, no audio when I load into the game. No music, background noise, dialog, nothing. What makes this weirder is I had played the game a few days ago and everything worked fine.

I have attempted the following:

1) Verified Game Cache
2) Uninstall + Reinstall
3) As 2, but deleted registry keys still in the system.
4) As 3, but also purged all cloud saves to see if it was a configuration issue with the cloud save.

Anyone with experience with this issue is welcome to try and help me solve this problem. I was hoping to play this game in preperation for Mankind Divided but I can't get the audio to work to save my life.
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Kauldwin Mar 20, 2016 @ 9:41pm 
In poking around a little bit, I found a post from a user who had a similar issue with no audio (he also had some graphical glitches) and was able to fix it:

Fixed. Set some stuff in regedit to 1 and disabled SSAO in NVIDIA Control Panel.
Enabled DX11.

It's a little vague, but you could Google the regedit fixes a lot of people were using when this version first came out and see if any of those help. Here's one:

In regedit open HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Eidos\Deus Ex: HRDC and locate AllowJobStealing - set it to 0 ;

Another site recommends the following for no audio:

Talk about a common problem people experience! To fix the music and sound, you can try disabling Hardware Acceleration and also try to reduce the Sample Rate Conversion Quality to fix this:

1) Load the Control Panel -> Sounds and Audio Devices
2) In the Volume tab, click the “Advanced” button under “Speaker settings”, then click the “Performance” tab
3) Move the slider from “Full” and “Best” to “None” and “Good”. Now click “OK”

Try doing these one at a time rather than just lowering them both as you may not need to lower / disable both.

Another method is to use the infamous DXDIAG:

1) Go to Start -> Run — type in “dxdiag”
2) Click the “Sound” tab and under “DirectX Features” move the slider over from “Full Acceleration” to “no acceleration” to disable the setting for DirectSound

Dunno if any of that will be helpful to you, as I've never experienced this particular issue, but it's something to try, anyway.
Svensational Mar 21, 2016 @ 2:56am 
Have switched AllowJobSteealing to 0, no change. DXDiag and my control panel don't offer those options, they might be located somewhere different, but I'm not sure where they'd be at (On Windows 8.1)
Svensational Mar 22, 2016 @ 6:36pm 
Bumping this, still having trouble two days later, any help would be appreciated.
Svensational Mar 22, 2016 @ 10:40pm 
Update: Not exactly sure -what- happened exactly but reinstalling audio drivers did the job.
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