No Audio bug

[Ark_Zilong]

as the title says, when I start the game I have no audio

[Gwenichou]

Hi,

Do you have more information about that?
What are your system specs?
I guess you checked all your sound options in Windows? :)

[Ark_Zilong]

sadly(?) it has started working properly; after a few tries and playing a bit without audio, audio just started working

[Sgt. Chuckles]

I have encountered a similar bug. It might be the same one, or maybe not. But I can reproduce it every time. The key is that if the default audio device changes after the game starts, the new device is never used.

To test this you can plug in a pair of headphones, start the game, then unplug the headphones so the machine starts using speakers. The speakers will never output sound. I believe the same is true the other way around, speakers first, then headphones, but I haven't specifically tested that.

[Bonobov]

I have encountered something similar. I was playing with my laptop using a desktop screen (laptop "closed"), I paused for half an hour and my laptop or my screen (dunno which one, I have recently reinstaled win 10) went into sleep mode. When I tried to play again (breaking up sleep mode and unpausing the game), I've got no sound.

Hope this can help.
If you want me to reproduce it while checking sleep mode parameters of my laptop and my screen, just let me know.

[phmsin]

I have encountered the same bug but have never had sound work for me.

[Ark_Zilong]

Originally posted by Sgt. Chuckles:

I have encountered a similar bug. It might be the same one, or maybe not. But I can reproduce it every time. The key is that if the default audio device changes after the game starts, the new device is never used.

To test this you can plug in a pair of headphones, start the game, then unplug the headphones so the machine starts using speakers. The speakers will never output sound. I believe the same is true the other way around, speakers first, then headphones, but I haven't specifically tested that.

I belive this is the issue I am having, and it has started to affect other games
are there any known fixes to this?

[uucky]

Originally posted by Arkanum Zilong:

Originally posted by Sgt. Chuckles:

I have encountered a similar bug. It might be the same one, or maybe not. But I can reproduce it every time. The key is that if the default audio device changes after the game starts, the new device is never used.

To test this you can plug in a pair of headphones, start the game, then unplug the headphones so the machine starts using speakers. The speakers will never output sound. I believe the same is true the other way around, speakers first, then headphones, but I haven't specifically tested that.

I belive this is the issue I am having, and it has started to affect other games
are there any known fixes to this?

I think I also encountered the same bug. It happened when I unpluged my headphones while playing the game and the laptop speaker should have but didn't have any output. However, I tested this with all the way playing my own music,but the music played switching from headphone to speaker.
Furthermore, When I play the game using laptop speaker (no headphone), with my music playing in background, I plug my headphones in. My music correctly play through the headphones, yet the game still outputs sound via speaker.

[Paraclete Pizza]

I am having this same issue in the 1.0 release. Playing from a laptop hooked to a TV via HDMI, laptop fell asleep, and on waking the game has no sound. System sounds work fine, and play through the TV fine.

[phmsin]

With the latest version, I have successfully been able to have sound when I play on my tv through a steam machine in big picture mode. Have not been able to have sound when playing on my computer.