audio output

[rexisnotmydog]

gthe game won't play through my speakers. Works fine with headphones, but when I want to use the speakers, I have to play silent. This happens with only a few other games. I wonder why some games just don't wanna figure out how i want to hear it.

[umop-apisdn]

This sounds (pardon the pun) more like a hardware or driver issue than a game developer issue.

[Taco Cat]

Stupid question...but did you change the audio Output? Or do you have a controller adjected to your PC?

[Man's Best Friend]

Originally posted by Mr Treffnix:

Stupid question...but did you change the audio Output? Or do you have a controller adjected to your PC?

Especially a PS4 controller? Windows loves to default to the PS4 controller's audio out. It'll keep doing it every time you plug it in until you manually change it at least once. It might even do it again if you change ports since every time you connect to a new port, Windows acts like it's a new device.

And yeah, this definitely sounds more like a system problem than a game problem. Except in rare cases, programs typically just ask Windows which device to output to.

[rexisnotmydog]

I just have the keyboard and the mouse on my republic of gamers laptop. This has been a problem with quite a few steam games, I've never had the problem with internet sound or anything else. Some games easily switch back to speaker, some games just go mute, no matter what settings I have on or reset, etc.

[rexisnotmydog]

oh and i'm using airpods max headphones, but it was also a problem when i was using bose.

[Man's Best Friend]

Are they still paired and turned on when you're trying to use the speakers? Also are you trying to switch while the game is running?

[rexisnotmydog]

as soon as i take them off they are unpaired, I have to pair them in settings every time i put them back on. I always have to save and reboot the game whenever I switch. But even then, with the headphones off and the game restarted, it stays mute. Even while internet videos will sound on the speakers.

[DrNewcenstein]

Games do not pick an audio device. They pick whatever the OS has determined is the proper audio device. The issue is in your hardware.

[rexisnotmydog]

then why would the game itself not go with what I designate as the audio output? Why is it only some games and nothing else?

[umop-apisdn]

Originally posted by rexisnotmydog:

then why would the game itself not go with what I designate as the audio output? Why is it only some games and nothing else?

Start > Settings > System > Sound
Check the first dropdown, "Choose your output device"; Make sure it has the correct item selected.

It's entirely possible that Windows has decided that another connected device (such as a controller or HDMI monitor) is the appropriate audio output device. If you determine that this is the case, and the automatically selected output device is one that you will never use, you can click the "Manage sound devices" link just below the "Troubleshoot" button, and then click on the output device(s) you'd like to remove and press the "Disable" button for each of them.