Description of issue
No Audio / Bad Audio Device Selection - Windows 10 Steam Barbarossa v1.11.9.e52a (3f99)
Game Version
v1.11.9.e52a (3f99)
Enabled DLC
Together for Victory, Death or Dishonor, Waking the Tiger, Man The Guns, Battle for the Bosporus, No Step Back
Do you have mods enabled?
No
Description
When upgrading from Husky to Barbarossa version, there is no game audio. I've attached logs with more detailed information.
When I downgrade to previous game version Husky v1.9.3 then audio works fine. All other games have working audio. I completely reinstalled all drivers on this system and there's no change.
As a software developer, this seems like a bug in the audio device selection.
I enabled all audio devices on the system, including integrated monitor speakers and game audio started playing from a random monitor. If I change the active windows audio device while the game is running, the sound completely stops and never comes back. Even when I relaunch the game, again there is no audio. These are multiple bugs with audio device selection.
Please use MMDevice API on Windows (or a suitable alternative in your audio library) to correctly pick the current default device, since the user can change their output device at any time during gameplay. It's extremely easy to implement.
Alternatively it would be good if in-game settings allowed for manual audio-device override, which is also very easy to implement correctly. I've implemented that multiple times in my software dev career. Just display a list of active audio devices, and reinitialize the audio system with that device when user makes the selection.
Steps to Reproduce
Download latest version of HoI4 Barbarossa on Steam for Windows 10, disable your first audio device, launch game and there is no sound from your other active sound outputs
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No Audio / Bad Audio Device Selection - Windows 10 Steam Barbarossa v1.11.9.e52a (3f99)
Game Version
v1.11.9.e52a (3f99)
Enabled DLC
Together for Victory, Death or Dishonor, Waking the Tiger, Man The Guns, Battle for the Bosporus, No Step Back
Do you have mods enabled?
No
Description
When upgrading from Husky to Barbarossa version, there is no game audio. I've attached logs with more detailed information.
When I downgrade to previous game version Husky v1.9.3 then audio works fine. All other games have working audio. I completely reinstalled all drivers on this system and there's no change.
As a software developer, this seems like a bug in the audio device selection.
I enabled all audio devices on the system, including integrated monitor speakers and game audio started playing from a random monitor. If I change the active windows audio device while the game is running, the sound completely stops and never comes back. Even when I relaunch the game, again there is no audio. These are multiple bugs with audio device selection.
Please use MMDevice API on Windows (or a suitable alternative in your audio library) to correctly pick the current default device, since the user can change their output device at any time during gameplay. It's extremely easy to implement.
IMMNotificationClient (mmdeviceapi.h) - Win32 apps
The IMMNotificationClient interface provides notifications when an audio endpoint device is added or removed, when the state or properties of an endpoint device change, or when there is a change in the default role assigned to an endpoint device.
docs.microsoft.com
Alternatively it would be good if in-game settings allowed for manual audio-device override, which is also very easy to implement correctly. I've implemented that multiple times in my software dev career. Just display a list of active audio devices, and reinitialize the audio system with that device when user makes the selection.
Steps to Reproduce
Download latest version of HoI4 Barbarossa on Steam for Windows 10, disable your first audio device, launch game and there is no sound from your other active sound outputs
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