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Re: Bad audio, sound effects stop after a few successful pla

2019-02-06T21:21:53+02:00

hello,
I come back from years and so I had to read this thread, some update:
The issue is still here with newer realtek HD audio.

Instead of using a now quite old driver that may not support lastest realtek chip or, partially, a good workaround, I think, is to use another audio sound device, like usb headphones or the HDMI output from your graphic card (if you have an audio system that accept HDMI of course, in this case), or a real soundcard (asus xonar, creative sound blaster (yes they still exist).

ALC1220 via optical output: does not works fine (crapy audio and crashes on steam FA wile leaving games) and number of speakers cannot be configured.
AMD Radeon HD audio works well over HDMI, can be forced to stereo, if needed.

Statistics: Posted by Guig_Esprit_du_Sage — 06 Feb 2019, 21:21

Re: Bad audio, sound effects stop after a few successful pla

2016-08-11T04:32:35+02:00

Hi guys, so I've been having what I assume is the same issue here for quite a while now. I keep on fixing it, but it keeps on breaking itself.
Why is it only FAF that does this and no other games I own?

Basically, Every FIRST time a sound is played, I hear it

http://pastebin.com/4Hi1XVkY
Log of a test game.

EDIT: I'm on Windows 8.1
Refuse to get Windows 10.

Statistics: Posted by Chucky Dickens — 11 Aug 2016, 04:32

Re: Bad audio, sound effects stop after a few successful pla

2016-06-13T04:55:53+02:00

This happened again when my system took the newest windows 10 round of updates.

Confirming an earlier thread, installing the realtek driver fixed the issue. I downloaded the one released via MSI on 2016-05-06. It was a whopping 268mb download, but audio is up and running again.

Statistics: Posted by ZXF — 13 Jun 2016, 04:55

Re: Bad audio, sound effects stop after a few successful pla

2016-06-12T02:12:49+02:00

That's not what they said though

In W7, you can manually restart the "Windows Audio" service from the control panel item "Services"; it fixes a bunch of audio problems. Too bad though that FA needs to restart to take advantage. VLC, browsers and pretty much everything else doesn't need to restart.

Statistics: Posted by E8400-CV — 12 Jun 2016, 02:12

Re: Bad audio, sound effects stop after a few successful pla

2016-06-10T18:18:59+02:00

speed2 wrote:
Install win10 they said, everything will be better they said, well no

No. They want you to install Win 10 so that they can get your data.

Statistics: Posted by Hawkei — 10 Jun 2016, 18:18

Re: Bad audio, sound effects stop after a few successful pla

2016-06-10T09:59:50+02:00

SpdyGonzalez wrote:
well, considering that you have a realtek, and windows 10, I had kinda of same issue, the solution was force this driver to install :

"0006-64bit_Win7_Win8_Win81_Win10_R279" available from realtek webpage, but, you need to see if your sound card is on the supported list

helped for now

Statistics: Posted by speed2 — 10 Jun 2016, 09:59

Re: Bad audio, sound effects stop after a few successful pla

2016-06-10T09:29:59+02:00

Install win10 they said, everything will be better they said, well no

Statistics: Posted by speed2 — 10 Jun 2016, 09:29

Re: Bad audio, sound effects stop after a few successful pla

2016-05-01T19:14:03+02:00

Argon wrote:
This happened twice in my win7 x32 but solved after reboot.

Yes this is a fairly old problem and it's fixed by rebooting

Statistics: Posted by TheKoopa — 01 May 2016, 19:14

Re: Bad audio, sound effects stop after a few successful pla

2016-04-29T20:06:11+02:00

This happened twice in my win7 x32 but solved after reboot.

Statistics: Posted by Argon — 29 Apr 2016, 20:06

Re: Bad audio, sound effects stop after a few successful pla

2016-04-25T11:31:33+02:00

I'm guessing this is the issue where your intro vids aren't playing either, and double ESC gets you into the menu?

Disabling audio in the BIOS, rerunning FA, then rebooting and enabling it again works for me.

In my case the problem starts when disabling in-game music to listen to a CD or whatever in the background. Seems DX or the sound driver is getting confused with audio prioritizing related to FA and keeps the broken settings in the registry. A driver reinstall also does the trick because it resets the sound setup. As will a system restore, but that's a pita.

I have the latest realtek drivers but I can still reproduce the issue at will so the fix is not in the driver itself, but the act of reinstalling it. In my case, it seems that disabling/re-enabling the onboard audio in the bios forces some sort of PnP refresh of the DX settings, and the game starts working again,

I have Win10, no idea if this issue occurs on previous versions.

Statistics: Posted by RocketRooster — 25 Apr 2016, 11:31

Re: Bad audio, sound effects stop after a few successful pla

2016-04-17T02:34:40+02:00

Had same audio problem as poster. Updated drivers and restarted computer. Fixed.

Statistics: Posted by ghostronin — 17 Apr 2016, 02:34

Re: Bad audio, sound effects stop after a few successful pla

2016-04-10T10:57:29+02:00

well, considering that you have a realtek, and windows 10, I had kinda of same issue, the solution was force this driver to install :

"0006-64bit_Win7_Win8_Win81_Win10_R279" available from realtek webpage, but, you need to see if your sound card is on the supported list

Statistics: Posted by SpdyGonzalez — 10 Apr 2016, 10:57

Re: Bad audio, sound effects stop after a few successful pla

2016-04-10T07:39:09+02:00

I went out on a limb and did a system restore to a point prior to Windows 10 build 10586.164. It worked! No more audio problem.

Statistics: Posted by ZXF — 10 Apr 2016, 07:39

Bad audio, sound effects stop after a few successful plays

2016-04-10T07:22:59+02:00

As others have reported, my sound effects stop playing after a few successful plays for each. This seems new since late March / early April 2016.

My system:
- Windows 10 64-bit, version 1511, build 10586.164
- NVIDIA High Definition Audio
- Realtek High Definition Audio

Things I have attempted (with restarts between each):
1. Change system audio quality from 24/48000, to 24/44100, and also 16/44100
2. Disable all other playback devices (including HDMI)
3. Run audio troubleshooter (which btw, sets quality back to 24/48000)
4. Under Enhancements, disable all sound effects
5. Disable/enable primary playback device
6. Unplug all other audio equipment (webcam, speakers - I use headphones)

This didn't help, the problem persists.

There are reports about audio issues introduced in Windows 10 build 10586.164:
http://windowsreport.com/windows-10-fal ... 11-issues/

Statistics: Posted by ZXF — 10 Apr 2016, 07:22