Audio won't go to headset

[3D Master]

So it's getting late and I don't want to disturb housemates; I plug my headset it, and all other audio switches to the headset; but the Resident Evil's audio keeps coming through the speakers. Any ideas on how to solve this?

[Judy Garland]

It's the software the runs your Audio Drivers on your computer, NOT Resident Evil.

Not sure if you have it, but I have a RealTek audio card, and when I plug in my headphones, the computer automatically detects this, shuts off my speakers and says, "A device has been plugged into your headphone jack?" And if I say cancel, the audio stays in the speakers.

If you have a software program like Realtek does running your audio driver, you would see an icon on the right of your taskbar. Click on it and you can configure stuff here.

If you have no such icon, or "inbetween" software such as Realtek does, then just plug your headphones into the back of your computer through the speaker jack.

[3D Master]

My headset is USB; it overrides my audio card; hence when I plug it in, all the audio in the computer automatically go to the headset, like I said. The game however keeps pushing the audio to the audio card; that means that the game's audio engine is ignoring the windows audio engine and simply keeps pushing the audio to the audio card. The drivers are bloody irrelevant.

[bslenul]

Same here, I have to quit the game and launch it again to have sounds in my headset. It happens on some games...

[Judy Garland]

Originally posted by 3D Master:

My headset is USB; it overrides my audio card; hence when I plug it in, all the audio in the computer automatically go to the headset, like I said. The game however keeps pushing the audio to the audio card; that means that the game's audio engine is ignoring the windows audio engine and simply keeps pushing the audio to the audio card. The drivers are bloody irrelevant.

Maybe certain games are NOT compatible with USB headsets, did you ever "bloody" think of that? A headset includes a Microphone, and this game has no use for such device, so therefor your headset is probably not even recornized by Resident Evil because it WASN'T DESIGNED TO.
Why don't you try using regular headphones, through your headphone jack. Do you BLOODY understand that?

[3D Master]

Originally posted by Judy Garland:

Originally posted by 3D Master:

My headset is USB; it overrides my audio card; hence when I plug it in, all the audio in the computer automatically go to the headset, like I said. The game however keeps pushing the audio to the audio card; that means that the game's audio engine is ignoring the windows audio engine and simply keeps pushing the audio to the audio card. The drivers are bloody irrelevant.

Maybe certain games are NOT compatible with USB headsets, did you ever "bloody" think of that? A headset includes a Microphone, and this game has no use for such device, so therefor your headset is probably not even recornized by Resident Evil because it WASN'T DESIGNED TO.
Why don't you try using regular headphones, through your headphone jack. Do you BLOODY understand that?

Well, that's where you are wrong ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, because just like Msienul when I exit the game and restart the game with the headset already plugged in, the audio goes to the headset. In other words, the games sound engine is separate from the windows one; and it checks for a soundcard and uses that, and doesn't do check again until the next restart; in the meantime continuing to dump the sound ot the soundcard.

[Judy Garland]

Maybe your computer is a piece of SH%& like YOU.

[The great Khan of Patagonia]

Originally posted by Judy Garland:

Maybe your computer is a piece of SH%& like YOU.

Imagine being this wound up about being objectively wrong.

[TypoMustakes]

Originally posted by Judy Garland:

Originally posted by 3D Master:

My headset is USB; it overrides my audio card; hence when I plug it in, all the audio in the computer automatically go to the headset, like I said. The game however keeps pushing the audio to the audio card; that means that the game's audio engine is ignoring the windows audio engine and simply keeps pushing the audio to the audio card. The drivers are bloody irrelevant.

Maybe certain games are NOT compatible with USB headsets, did you ever "bloody" think of that? A headset includes a Microphone, and this game has no use for such device, so therefor your headset is probably not even recornized by Resident Evil because it WASN'T DESIGNED TO.
Why don't you try using regular headphones, through your headphone jack. Do you BLOODY understand that?

Audio output is handled on the operating system layer, and not the application layer. In other words: Resident Evil, or any other application running on your computer doesn't give a damn about how you play audio on what device, it just tells the operating system WHAT to play. The rest is up to the OS.

Next time try making sure you don't sound stupid before being mean to someone else about it.

[(kl0n) ᗜˬᗜ 👍]

It was also an odd choice of necro, lol.

For future users, if you're switching audio output device AFTER launching an application and you're unsatisfied with its output, close and re-open your applications before deciding to complain! This should be step 0 -- step 0.5 being to not argue with people offering advice/solutions before trying it.