No audio ingame, only in menus and pause screen

[pongo]

anyone having this problem, I have no clue what to do
I reinstalled my game 3 times, messed with the audio settings, and I dont even know how this problem can be on my end. the main menu audio is perfect, no crackling or glitches. then if I load into mp or campaign I cant hear any ingame audio
here is where it's weird, if players use voice chat ingame, I can still hear them and if I pause ingame I hear the pause menu audio
I'm at a loss on what to do about it

[Zavyir]

The campaign audio was pulled from the original 360 version, and sadly the audio compression and rate was hard to transpose onto the PC version. A lot of people have an issue with sound mixing being bad, or noise crackling etc. but I've never heard of no sound at all...

One temporary fix some users have found is to go into your computer audio device settings and change the audio bit rate from 42000Hz (typical sound quality for good computers) down to something like 32000Hz if possible

[Zavyir]

(343 is aware of this sound issue btw, hopefully fix is coming soon)

[Danke]

I had that problem too.

Here's what I did, but I don't know which one fixed it.

1) I use a USB headset, so I connected normal iPhone earphones and switched them to default. Got into a match, confirmed I was getting audio from the earphones; and switched the default back to the headset.

2) Disabled all audio devices except the one I use.

I still get no audio if I'm tabbed out when the game is about to start; so I avoid that entirely. But I still get no audio randomly ever so often.

Oh and 343 is not aware of this particular issue; if you try to report this bug, you'll get it locked saying it's already in the bug list, which it isn't. But the low audio quality and the no audio except for menus are 2 completely separate issues.

[DAS-Problem]

Hi,
I also have this specific problem. My Setup is normaly PC via HDMI to a 4K HDR Beamer, and sound through Optical to a AV Receiver.
In Windows Sound i have normaly set it at 5.1 Dolby Digital Live.
All my Games,Videos and Music works great, but only Halo give me no Sound ingame at all (only Menus).
The Trick to change the Khz is not working for me, cause through optical you could not change the Khz.

The only way to play it temporary for now is to plug my Beamer through DVI, and the HDMI to my AVR for Sound and then change it in Windows Sound to my AVR with the quality i think it was 24btit and 48Khz...

And for Peopel who ask why i dont "lead through" the HDMI Signal through the AVR to my Beamer, is because my AVR only accepts HDMI 1.3 and this could not do 4K@60FPS.
Hopefully you understand what i mean...
(in simple PC->HDMI->AVR->HDMI->Beamer "inpossible")
So i have to use optical for Sound and HDMI for 4K YCbCr422 10Bit

But thats not a solution for me, cause through DVI my Beamer only gets YCbCr420 Color with 8Bit in 4K...thats odd

I really hope they fix such thing with the other Sound Bugs!

And yeahh, sorry for my english, but i hope you guys could understand me anyway ;)


PS: The other thing is that i really hoped that the Halo MCC do get Dolby Atmos, cause its from MICROSOFT the ones who did it for the XBOX and had an APP for ATMOS in there Store...so yes this would be the first Games for me to try Dolby Atmos...but you get it...
at least i wish the Sound would work normaly with optical and 5.1....


PPS: Ok i tryed to use the DVI for sound and the HDMI for Picture and it works.
But thats no solution anyway, cause i have to change the cables everytime i use my VR Headset that is normaly in the DVI output of my graphics card...

[AwfulWaffle]

Originally posted by Zavyir:

(343 is aware of this sound issue btw, hopefully fix is coming soon)

5 years later, same issue, no fix.

[¤ Dλmiλn ¤]

Originally posted by AwfulWaffle:

Originally posted by Zavyir:

(343 is aware of this sound issue btw, hopefully fix is coming soon)

5 years later, same issue, no fix.

you shouldn't need to require an entirely different device that people probably don't have JUST to hear in-game volume, it should only be handled inside the game settings and that's that, no digging into your TV/Monitor components, no having to open up the BIOS menu.

Always be sure what type your Monitor is, some people use their bulky TVs from like 2008 as their gaming computer monitor, like what Zavyir said the 360 porting could very well be a factor with different monitors, some are compatible some aren't.

343 was always pretty wonky with how they handle the Halo franchise + the porting, but were lucky to even get a PC port of this wonderful collection of games that were XBOX exclusive.

[Modern Day Omni]

2024 and the issue still exists...

[Danke]

LMAO

[chill out]

Still there in 2025.

[Enrique Suave]

Still not working in 2025, no audio at all for both cutscenes and in-game.

[chill out]

Originally posted by Enrique Suave:

Still not working in 2025, no audio at all for both cutscenes and in-game.

I managed to make it work again by closing other software; since obviously there's not going to be a patch to correct it, has anyone had any luck by closing other software?

To be clear, the other software was just a music player, and it works fine normally with the game audio, but the time I had this bug, it was closing that music player and restarting OBS that finally allowed the game to work, so I kind of suspect it might be some kind of broken or half-disabled recording/streaming DRM?

[DaddyFailedAbortion]

so i just had this issue, where i had all menu audio, pause audio. i tried everything. i have bt jbl headphones i had it set on headset earphone for my jbl got menu audio no ingame, so i switched to the jbl speakers in audo setting got nothing at all so i switched back to the earphone one finished my mission in silence then once i moved stages i set it back the jbl speakers one got full audio back idk if this will help anyone else but thats how i got it