M4dn3ss
New member
Recently I've been having a few audio problems...
Mainly it feels really random, sometimes the sound in one application doesn't work, etc. For example, I have Windows Media Player open playing something, then I open up a game and the game has no sound. Maybe Windows sounds (eg. Start navigation) don't play when they should.
Or sometimes it's the other way around and I might have sound working fine in another problem, then when I open a file in Media Player it fails and says "Windows Media Player has encountered a problem playing this file". Sometimes if I keep trying to open that file over and over again it eventually works and has sound. Once or twice the sound has gone crackly instead of cutting out completely.
So in short the problem is really random.
After some experimentation I found that disabling headphone virtualization in the Realtek HD Audio Manager fixes the problem. But I can't live without headphone virtualization... anyway, the problem has only started happening recently so it should work properly. I tried installing the latest Realtek drivers but this caused a heap of more problems. System restore didn't fix the problem either. Can anyone shed any light on why this is happening?
Mainly it feels really random, sometimes the sound in one application doesn't work, etc. For example, I have Windows Media Player open playing something, then I open up a game and the game has no sound. Maybe Windows sounds (eg. Start navigation) don't play when they should.
Or sometimes it's the other way around and I might have sound working fine in another problem, then when I open a file in Media Player it fails and says "Windows Media Player has encountered a problem playing this file". Sometimes if I keep trying to open that file over and over again it eventually works and has sound. Once or twice the sound has gone crackly instead of cutting out completely.
So in short the problem is really random.
After some experimentation I found that disabling headphone virtualization in the Realtek HD Audio Manager fixes the problem. But I can't live without headphone virtualization... anyway, the problem has only started happening recently so it should work properly. I tried installing the latest Realtek drivers but this caused a heap of more problems. System restore didn't fix the problem either. Can anyone shed any light on why this is happening?
My Computer
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- OS
- Windows 7 Professional x64
- CPU
- Intel Core i5 4690K
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z97X Gaming-3
- Memory
- Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR3-1600
- Graphics Card(s)
- Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X OC
- Sound Card
- ONBOARD SOUND :D
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Samsung S24A450BW
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1200 (16:10 forever)
- Hard Drives
- 250GB Samsung 840 EVO + 2TB Seagate Barracudea
- PSU
- Fractal Design Newton R3 1000W
- Case
- Corsair Graphite 230T
- Cooling
- Cooler Master Hyper 212X
- Keyboard
- Logitech G710+, CM Storm TK
- Mouse
- Steelseries Rival
- Internet Speed
- Australian
- Antivirus
- Avast, because I'm cheap
- Browser
- All the browsers!
