No Sound At All (tried everything I can think of)

[The Overseer]

As the title says, I have no sound at all. Yes, the sound was on in the menu.

I've reinstalled, made sure my sound drivers were working (They do for everything else)
I've tried deleting my save file, actually deleted all traces that the game was ever on my PC.
I've tried emailing Nicalis (Got no reply, go figure)
I've looked for a mod that would fix the issue (couldn't find one)
The only thing I haven't tried is reformatting my PC, which I'm loathe to do for one lousy game, when everything else works fine.

Any ideas?

[Swishy7]

I'm guessing you have the right sound device selected as default since you say sound is working for everything else.

But it could be that the game is trying to use the wrong sound device. You could try disable the other connected sound devices (in the settings of your OS) just not your main one, and then launch the game and see if you get sound. If it works, re-enable the sound devices, and hopefully it just keeps using the right one from now on.

[The Overseer]

Originally posted by Swishy7:

I'm guessing you have the right sound device selected as default since you say sound is working for everything else.

But it could be that the game is trying to use the wrong sound device. You could try disable the other connected sound devices (in the settings of your OS) just not your main one, and then launch the game and see if you get sound. If it works, re-enable the sound devices, and hopefully it just keeps using the right one from now on.

I've tried this. I'm using a laptop and only have one sound device. I disabled it, ran the game, then re-enabled it, and it didn't help.

[Tnt13]

A similar problem appeared when I tried to connect headphones to the front input (at the same time the speakers were working in the back). Apparently, the game started producing sound to the front input from that moment.

I did not find a solution on the Internet and I began to search for this solution myself. And in general, I found a way out. I do not know if you have the Realtek HD Manager utility, but after going into the program options, I clicked on the "Configure front and rear output devices to play two different audio signals simultaneously" parameter, then the sound returned. Try looking for this setting in other applications if you don't have Realtek HD.

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[The Overseer]

Originally posted by TNT13:

A similar problem appeared when I tried to connect headphones to the front input (at the same time the speakers were working in the back). Apparently, the game started producing sound to the front input from that moment.

I did not find a solution on the Internet and I began to search for this solution myself. And in general, I found a way out. I do not know if you have the Realtek HD Manager utility, but after going into the program options, I clicked on the "Configure front and rear output devices to play two different audio signals simultaneously" parameter, then the sound returned. Try looking for this setting in other applications if you don't have Realtek HD.

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I'm not finding that Option in my Realtek Utility. How did you find this?

[DixonPL890]

if you have only one game that is no sound you schould reinstall

[Tnt13]

Originally posted by Powerhead_Thor:

I'm not finding that Option in my Realtek Utility. How did you find this?

HD Realek Manager - Advanced Device Settings (Small gear-like button on top-left
) - Make front and rear output devices playback two different audio streams simultaneously.

If our utilities still differ, then try to look for an option. There should be a similar option.

[The Overseer]

Originally posted by TNT13:

Originally posted by Powerhead_Thor:

I'm not finding that Option in my Realtek Utility. How did you find this?

HD Realek Manager - Advanced Device Settings (Small gear-like button on top-left
) - Make front and rear output devices playback two different audio streams simultaneously.

If our utilities still differ, then try to look for an option. There should be a similar option.

I'm pretty sure our versions are not the same, and I'm having trouble finding an updated version... Realtek's site is a mess to navigate. Still, this is the best lead I've gotten, So I'm gonna try to do what I can to chase it. Thank you for the help, and hopefully I can figure this out.

[The Overseer]

Originally posted by TNT13:

Originally posted by Powerhead_Thor:

I'm not finding that Option in my Realtek Utility. How did you find this?

HD Realek Manager - Advanced Device Settings (Small gear-like button on top-left
) - Make front and rear output devices playback two different audio streams simultaneously.

If our utilities still differ, then try to look for an option. There should be a similar option.

I uninstalled the Realtek Driver, and am now just running on windows sound drivers.

This solved the issue.

I chased down your lead, and it lead me to some forums where people were trying to get their PCs to play sound from both their speakers and headphones.

I think what happened, was that the game was having trouble communicating with the Realtek sound driver, and wasn't able to find the correct output for sound.

Seems like deleting the Realtek driver, and then disabling my speakers, so that sound ONLY plays through my headphones, did the trick!