No audio in most games but everywhere else it works fine?

[tymann23]

So the title says it all mostly. I can't get any audio whatsoever in games like Borderlands 1 & 2, Darksiders 1 & 2 Dungeon Siege 1 I get audio but none in DS 2 & 3. No audio in Fallout 3, here's where it gets odd, I get audio in Half Life 2, Team Fortress 2 and Portal, as well as Penumbra Overture. I get perfectly fine audio on youtube and in Windows and in some games, so something's telling me it's a codec or filter kind of issue, or i'm missing files.

But, I've reinstalled my Realtek drivers numerous times, as well as tried different codec packs. What exactly could cause audio to work perfectly fine for some games and virtually everything else, but not MOST games? I've tried everything I know, Ccleaner, Driver Booster, Manually myself, I've also tried reinstalling some of the games this issue is happening with. I've ran out of options. I really do not want to reinstall Windows.

Specs:

Asus p8z77-v lk
16gb corsair vengeance
two EVGA GTX 660's in SLI
Corsair 700 watt game series
7200RPM 2TB Hard Drive

Thanks for your time, I'd be very thankful and appreciative if anyone has any clue as to what could be causing this and where I can go from here. Thank you.

 

[SARATHoR]

is your system overclocked
did you try updating your directx
did you try updating your graphics card drivers
how much ram and graphics do you have

 

[Valter Medeiros]

Go to Windows Update > Check Updates: If there is some to do, you do.
See your Default Audio Device, and make sure it isn't communication default.
Plug everything off and plug again (All).
That can be also from games if they are cracked, if they are, look for updates/hot-fixes.
If this don't work try to uninstall audio drivers and restart PC, then go to Windows Update > Check for updates.

 

[tymann23]

Thanks for the help guys, I tried, but to no avail. I just decided to format and reinstall Windows 7. It's cool, because almost all my games in Steam are reinstalled haha. But yea, the problem IS fixed now. I appreciate the help from you guys, have any of you ever seen something like this happen?

All these games now working were combinations of games on Steam, and some that weren't through Steam. But it didn't make much sense, my friend said my computer had become racist. lol. Working for some games but not others.

But i've had issues with audio in the past, but it usually was pretty easy to fix and it usually affected everything not just a couple things. This was different. Oh yea, the games that didn't have audio also did not show up in the volume mixer. You know the mixer which allows you to adjust the different programs volume you're running? But yea, I hope this doesn't happen to someone else.

 

[Valter Medeiros]

Im glad you fixed. It was a driver problem for sure.
Im here if you need something else.
Good luck and have a lot of fun with audio! ^^

 

[Bozobub]

Next time, try going to Control Panel>Sound>"Playback" tab, and right-click the sound output that is currently active. Select Properties>"Advanced" tab. In the dropdown list at the top, make doubly sure you don't have too high a bit depth/sample rate combination. Anything from 24 bit, 48000 Hz can simply be too much for some games; it's a quite common problem. Try selecting the LOWEST (16 bit, 44100 Hz) and see if you now have sound, then increase one step at a time until the sound fails, then back off one step ^^' .

Also, if you have the wrong number of speakers set (say, 5.1 when you have a stereo output), sometimes some or all of the sound will disappear.