No In Game Sound

[X-Peri-MENTAL]

I have started this thread instead of reporting a bug as I am not sure yet if this is something to do with my PC or not. Some games even replays when I start have no in game sound what so ever but if a join/host another game or watch a replay the sound is back. I know the lack of sound is limited to FA as in some games I have a live Skpye call in progress and that is not affected.

My last experience of this was just now. I played a 1v1 automatch and the game was fine no issues, I then watched the replay and there was no sound. I then opened the same replay again and this time it was fine.

I have 121 games played on FAF and I would say this has happened about 6 times with no obvious pattern. I know a friend has had this happen to him once.

I have not reported this as a bug yet, I just wanted to find out first if anyone else has experienced something similar?

[DarkTemplar]

I would like to add to this 2-month old thread in the hopes of getting resolution. I will have proper sound in game for about 30 or so seconds and then just music with the occasional FX, and then nothing but the rare FX with no music whatsoever. Has anyone else experienced this before?

Also, MENTAL, have you ever been able to resolve your issue?

Thanks!

[Ze_PilOt]

Try to put only 2 speakers in windows ?

[X-Peri-MENTAL]

MENTAL, have you ever been able to resolve your issue?

Not had the issue for a while now. I had a slightly different problem in that when the game started there would be no game sound what so ever (FX or music), next game or replay it would be back.

Another variable is that I have changed from my Creative Labs Xi-Fi back to onboard sound driver after my memory upgrade to 4GB (there is a bug with the drivers for my Xi-Fi card which do not support the larger system memory and had crackling on the output). I don’t know if it is my drivers/hardware that caused the problem or not as it seemed to be random, that said I never had the problem on GPGnet when I was using the Xi-Fi. So sorry, no answers.

[whootle]

Hi guys,

I had a very similar (if not the same) problem which came up for no reason and would not go away. Unlike the mixer problem, my mixer was set to the right volume. Windows sound was already set to stereo etc.

Regardless, the solution that worked for me was to basically recreate games.pref. If you don't know how to do that, below are some instructions:

0. Just in case, back up game.prefs.
(Located in %AppData%\Local\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance
For most people, that would be C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Local\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance)

1. Delete game.prefs
Note: you will lose all your FA settings.
2. Launch Forged Alliance, without going through FAF. Re-set any settings as desired.
3. Try and test. It will hopefully all be working now.

Perhaps everyone can send in their sound-bugged game.prefs so we might be able to figure out what is causing this problem. For me, nothing apparent caused it - just played a game and the issue started and would never go away.

Credit to tatsu for pointing me in the right direction.

[E8400-CV]

Do you use Mumble?

Mumble has the tendency to take "exclusive control" over your sound card, even if you explicitly disabled that; disabling sound in some other applications.

[ElectricNode]

Hey seems this problem hasn't really been fixed, so ill add some more insight.

All the normal sound for the lobby work, you can click the x as many times as you want ant it will have its sound.
But In-game, when I start the initial factory, the build start sound plays, then the build sounds plays, and then it stops.
A more clear example is when i click or mouse over anything that has an immediate sound playback, the first time it plays, second time some of them work, but almost always the 3rd time never "refreshes" its code or something to loop or replay that sound.
My ACU starts shooting and the first two sound and the rest of the shots don't. A tank dies and has sound, the next tank dies and doesn't. It doesn't seem to be a problem for T1 bombers though I haven't tried extensively.

My point is that I don't think this is about drivers or exclusive control. I think this is broken code, corrupted code.
I have deleted my game files and caches, but this hasn't gone away.

[Greenio]

Why is this on the tourney forum...

[nine2]

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10875&hilit=sound#p111082

[calibrah]

I had all the same sound issues. for example, clicking on a factory makes a noise, building noises... they were all gone. Making sure my soundcard was set to Stereo and i changed it from 48000khz to 41000khz fixed it for me.