No sound at all?

[Mojstorm]

Whenever I start the game, there seems to be no sound at all - not in the intro, not at the main menu, not when I'm actually playing. Help?

My audio drivers are up-to-date and Directx is 11. Running on Windows 7, compatibility mode set to Windows XP (SP2). I don't have this problem with any other game, including Forged Alliance.

[germanicianus]

Laptop or PC? If PC, try to only connect analog out and only one monitor connected by VGA or DVI (no digital audio).

[Sethrael The Bard]

Yeah, I am getting absolutely no audio during cutscenes or gameplay. Assistance would be appreciated. Simple instruction please.

[Mojstorm]

I am on PC, and only have one monitor connected by VGA. How do I connect analog out? I can't find any sort of guide.

[Bolt]

Read in some other thread that the game needs stereo sound as a setting and in another that HD audio might cause issues.

[Michael97]

I recently lost the audio of cutscenes, mission briefing and transmissions in SC and SC:FA as well.
I didn`t temper with them before this occoured.
Full reinstall did not help.
Soundtrack and SFX unaffected.

[Alien Queen]

they shud fix to sound be in game and try get biger scren get bug scren grey color and its stucks on pulpite

[Ceejay]

Originally posted by Mojstorm:

I am on PC, and only have one monitor connected by VGA. How do I connect analog out? I can't find any sort of guide.

just plug headphones or speakers into your speaker out port.

[germanicianus]

Sometimes my mobile Steam application plays games on me and doesn’t notify me about new posts.

Mojstorm, were you able to fix your issue?

[Mojstorm]

Originally posted by germanicianus:

Sometimes my mobile Steam application plays games on me and doesn’t notify me about new posts.

Mojstorm, were you able to fix your issue?

Nope, tried your solution and nothing changed.

[germanicianus]

Very strange. You can try my guide which is to prevent a crash on launch but maybe it also solves your sound init issue.

[germanicianus]

Any progress? This could also help maybe:
https://forums.faforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13963#sound

[Mojstorm]

Sorry, neither worked - the guide didn't seem to work at all, and I tried the solutions provided on that page. I already have my sound set to stereo and I can't imagine those drivers would help as my computer's audio isn't realtek.

[germanicianus]

Update: First read my post below this one (link).

That’s bad. I think it’s either a faulty sound driver or some process interferring with it.

I assume you have only one ‚soundcard‘ which is integrated into you mainboard, correct? Please post the exact model.

Which driver did you install and where did you get it from? Did you install the driver only or some additional (included) software. It may have been installed automatically if you used a setup exe/msi.

I suggest the following: Download the latest driver for your sound-device. Disconnect from network. Uninstall all sound drivers (device manager) and belonging software (programs) and restart. Repeat this step until Windows doesn’t install a previous driver anymore. Install the driver you downloaded.

I hope the latest driver will work.

Which video card model exactly do you use and which driver?

[germanicianus]

Another thing you can try which may be much easier for you: If your graphics card has an HDMI port try to disconnect VGA and connect to a TV using HDMI. It is mentioned in this ComputerBase thread[www.computerbase.de] (German) as verified solution.

To verify if the game outputs sound to any device (which you don't hear) you can do the following. Start the game and set it to Windowed in Options -> Video -> Primary Adapter. Move the window out of your way to any side but do NOT minimize it because this would stop the sound. Open the Windows Sound dialog by right clicking the speaker icon in the taskbar and clicking Playback devices. If the game has sound, one of the meters there will show it.

If this doesn't help, enable log writing for Supreme Commander and have a look if there are any errors written to it. You can enable it by opening the game's Properties dialog and setting the SET LAUNCH OPTIONS... to the following:

/log "drive_letter:\some_path\log_file_name.log" /spewsound

[germanicianus]

Any news?