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[Joe B]

Hello. I'm having a very frustrating issue with my sound. I'm using a machine I built myself with the following basic parts:

ASUS M4A79XTD EVO Motherboard w/ Phenom II x4
945
4GB DDR3-1333 RAM
XFX Radeon HD 5770 1GB GDDR5
Integrated VIA VT1708S sound w/
5.1 analog speakers
Windows 7 Professional x64

I've been playing ME (with BDtS and v1.02 patch) for weeks using 5.1 sound without any problems. Today, I updated my sound driver (from 7400 to 7900) to fix an unrelated problem, and suddenly, ME will no longer give me 5.1 sound. I've checked in other Windows applications and have no trouble getting
5.1 sound from them with either driver.

Investigating the log file, I always get the following lines:

[15.580] Init: Audio Driver: Speakers (VIA High Definition Audio) ({0.0.0.00000000}.{fd9c1d40-5b4b-4cee-8ee2-6f0aede21dfe})
[15.697] Init: Audio Device: Generic Software

I'm assuming that they mean that it's trying to use the appropriate device but failing and switching to the software audio option.

I've tried uninstalling the driver and reinstallng the older version, uninstalling and reinstalling ME, deleting all the .ini files, manually editing the .ini files, rerunning the configuration utility (which does recognize my 5.1 setup) and everything else I can think of.

Does anyone have any advice for what I should try next? Thanks!

-Joe

[Foxxie-kun]

I'm getting the same issue with the game always defaulting to Software audio, I have a Realtek onboard HD sound chip with the latest 2.57 drivers.



Despite any settings in the bioengine.ini, the log always says it's using software audio. It's getting aggravating because apparently hardware audio fixes many of the issues I'm having (Ambient audio overpowering ambient conversations, etc.)

[Bogsnot1]

Give this a try, you as well Foxxie.

Edit the bioengine.ini file, using notepad++, download from here http://notepad-plus-plus.org/download. do not use windows notepad, as it tends to throw in extra, unseen crap that will corrupt the file.



Look for this entry;

[ISACTAudio.ISACTAudioDevice]

MaxChannels=64



Set for 63

[Joe B]

Bogsnot1 wrote...

Give this a try, you as well Foxxie.
Edit the bioengine.ini file, using notepad++, download from here http://notepad-plus-plus.org/download. do not use windows notepad, as it tends to throw in extra, unseen crap that will corrupt the file.

Look for this entry;
[ISACTAudio.ISACTAudioDevice]
MaxChannels=64

Set for 63

Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately it didn't work.

-Joe