Inconsistent sound issues since a few days

[BarbouK]

Hi,

These last days, I've been facing some serious sound issues that make the game rather hard to play.

Basically : after a while (sometimes a few seconds), some sounds don't get played in the game anymore. I say "some" because I can still hear for instance, the music, or the commander moving but not (again, this is an example as it happens for different sounds every single time) the sound when you click on a factory to build an engineer.

The easiest way I've found to reproduce the issue is doing the following :

- Starting a game vs an Easy Computer on Blasted Rock (this actually doesn't really matter I suppose, as I faced that issue on other maps/with real opponents).
- Building a factory
- Clicking on the built factory so that it builds an engineer - the sound gets emitted
- Clicking again on the same button - the sound never gets emitted again (sometimes it happens after a few clicks, sometimes right away).

I'm at loss figuring out what is happening here : there was no change in the last few days (that I'm aware of) regarding either:
- System update
- Sound driver/firmware update
- Software installation

I also double-checked, and my speakers are configured in stereo. I made sure of that several times.

I just booted up my computer as usual, and there it was. I can't tell if this happened right after the latest FAF update or not. (It may have, but I didn't notice it right away)

I've attached the game logs in hope it can show anything.

Please let me know if I need to test something in particular. Thank you.

[Cuddles]

Do you play in a window?

I get the same sometimes, but I always thought it was my habits of doing other stuff (alt+tab) while fafing (like chatting in aeolus).

[BarbouK]

I play in fullscreen.

For me it happens without doing anything special (and very often right after the start of the game).

It seems to be happening faster when my computer lags.

[E8400-CV]

What soundcard? What driver?

If you have an X-Fi; try the PAX drivers. They are better than the Creative provided drivers.

Do you run mumble or Teamspeak in the background?