Sound problems

[biscuit123]

Alright I've got a helluva weird problem here. Recently reinstalled PR on this PC, which I have used to play PR in the past. First time I played a couple of days ago everything went fine, except my mic wasn't working for some reason, it was just transmiting static over VOIP.

So I closed PR, went into dxdiag thinking my mic problem was caused by hardware acceleration being on under 'sound'. On bringing up the sound tab the slider was greyed out and under notes it says: "No sound card was found. If one is expected, you should install a sound driver provided by the hardware manufacturer."

Now, as far as I'm aware, my sound card is fine (if a bit old and crappy, It's onboard and this PC is about 8 years old). So I reinstalled DX 9.0c, checked my drivers and checked hardware status in device manager; everything checked out fine.

However, I restarted PR to find that now I have no in game sound whatsoever. I tried another game and the same is the case. HOWEVER I can still play music and stuff?!?


tl;dr Direct X doesn't seem to be picking up my onboard sound, I have no sound in game. However my sound is clearly working as I can make sound come out in other non-in game situations.

Would much appreciate any help with this, cheers. I will post details of my mobo and stuff but it's such a hassle to find out so it'll have to wait until I have some more time.

[bad_nade]

How's your sound card looking from Device Manager's point of view? Right click My Computer, select Manage and from left side tree select Device Manager. On the right side of the window you should see list of device categories in your system. Sound cards are listed under Sound, video and game controllers node.

Please be careful when using device manager, it's possible to render your Windows installation unbootable if used incautiously.

[biscuit123]

So I reinstalled DX 9.0c, checked my drivers and checked hardware status in device manager; everything checked out fine.

"this device is working properly" etc.

[thepalerider]

Your using the integrated audio (Realtek) on the motherboard? Update your Realtek drivers.

[cort500]

I have the same problem

[biscuit123]

Ok so I forgot to reply to this. I managed to fix this, updating the sound driver didn't fix it as such, but updating the chipset driver and graphics card driver did, for some reason. Cort500 - just update every driver you can, will hopefully fix your problem too.

[h4141]

Your using the integrated audio (Realtek) on the motherboard? Update your Realtek drivers.

this realtek driver download.