BUG - No Sound

[Grumpy Old Gamer]

Im guessing its because I have multiple sound devices in my system and its picking the on board audio as the default. Need a feature to choose the audio device.

[germanicianus]

Just set your default Windows audio device accordingly.
IMPORTANT: Choose Stereo because SC:FA doesn‘t like other modes and is problematic regarding installed sound software.

[Grumpy Old Gamer]

It is set properly, possibly Supcom chooses the first audio device it enumerates. which is the onboard sound device. I suspect the issue is that windows used to translate that so that the default device was always enumerated as device 0, but windows 11 acts more like an application instead of an OS. So it no longer re-enumerates the devices.

[germanicianus]

Windows 11 - you poor guy 😋 .

Do you have any sound at all, e.g. when playing video or audio files in Windows Media Player? It seems Windows 11 is quite immature and has a lot of sound problems.

[Grumpy Old Gamer]

Originally posted by germanicianus:

Windows 11 - you poor guy 😋 .

Do you have any sound at all, e.g. when playing video or audio files in Windows Media Player? It seems Windows 11 is quite immature and has a lot of sound problems.

Yes, the sound works fine watching House, playing PoE, oall other games, its just this one.

[germanicianus]

Try the following. Disable all your sound devices except the integrated one and set it to stereo. If SC then has still no sound, there is a more fundamental problem like incompatible sound software or drivers.

[Grumpy Old Gamer]

Yeah, the problem is that it wont use any other device except the integrated sound, and the integrated sound has no speakers hooked up or to hook up. I need it to use the HDMI attached speakers.

[germanicianus]

Ah! So in fact you have sound, but not via the correct sound card, right? Did you verify this by connecting headphones to the integrated sound card?

If that‘s the case, try to disable the integrated sound card to see if SC chooses the correct one then and is able to use it (set it to stereo beforehand).

[germanicianus]

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[Grumpy Old Gamer]

Originally posted by germanicianus:

Ah! So in fact you have sound, but not via the correct sound card, right? Did you verify this by connecting headphones to the integrated sound card?

If that‘s the case, try to disable the integrated sound card to see if SC chooses the correct one then and is able to use it (set it to stereo beforehand).

No, as I said there are no speakers to hook up, but I do have sound on the HDMI on all other games, and SupCom doesn't have the ability to select the output channel.

[germanicianus]

Then again: Disable all sound cards except the one you connected via HDMI and set latter to stereo.

[Grumpy Old Gamer]

Originally posted by germanicianus:

Then again: Disable all sound cards except the one you connected via HDMI and set latter to stereo.

Yep, still not working. The wrong speakers are still showing up when enumerating sound devices.

[germanicianus]

Did you disable the sound cards within the Windows „Device Manager“? For reference: https://winaero.com/enable-disable-sound-output-device-windows-10/amp/

[Grumpy Old Gamer]

Yes, I disabled the onboard sound. You have recommended that 4 times and I have told you that I did so. Move on to something else, that doesn't fix it.

[Dragons Advocate]

If the problem still persists, I found a solution just now:
I had the sound format of my audio device set to 32bit / 384,000Hz. Turns out everything up to 192,000Hz is fine (as is 16/24/32 bit), but when set to 384.000Hz, the game makes no sound.
SC:FA seems to be the only application I've encountered where this was an issue.