darkmenace Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Hi all I have a basic setup. Windows mini PC connected via HDMI to an old Plasma TV for retrogaming, running Bigbox. As of about a week ago, when launching retroarch games from LB/BB there is no sound. Running the same Retroarch instance from Windows Explorer/Cmd Prompt presents no such issue. Also in LB, if I right click a game and do open Retroarch or launch retroarch (forget the exact terminology). It all works, but if I right click the game and do "play" there is no sound. This happens across ALL Retroarch cores, so not a core specific issue. The only Retroarch switch Launchbox is using is -f (full screen). It seems like LB/BB are parsing some sort of independent config to Retroarch that is messing up the sound, but not aware of that being a thing. Similar stories. The last one could be the complicated audio setup described but the first 2 are more in line with my issue. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thraxlol Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 FYI I ripped out my over-complicated audio setup and still never found an answer to this question. Since then I've changed computers and completely re-hashed my LB setup from the ground up so just worked around the issue rather than fix it. Good luck though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkmenace Posted February 3 Author Share Posted February 3 (edited) Thanks thraxlol. I will go the full reconstruction route as a last resort, but of course had everything running nicely until recently, so don't really feel like starting over I've been through control panel >> sound options. Nothing amiss there. I have also been through Retroarch audio and driver settings about 20X both when launched from LB/BB and independently and everything appears identical. Totally at a loss! Non-Retroarch emulation works fine with sound and all, as does Windows/LB/BB audio. Edited February 3 by darkmenace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabb3rJaw Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 (edited) 5 hours ago, darkmenace said: Thanks thraxlol. I will go the full reconstruction route as a last resort, but of course had everything running nicely until recently, so don't really feel like starting over I've been through control panel >> sound options. Nothing amiss there. I have also been through Retroarch audio and driver settings about 20X both when launched from LB/BB and independently and everything appears identical. Totally at a loss! Non-Retroarch emulation works fine with sound and all, as does Windows/LB/BB audio. I’ve had this happen using Hyperspin and found when I paused Hyperspin it muted Retroarch in windows and when I exited pause it never unmuted Retroarch in windows. I think it was under sound mixer maybe? Edited February 4 by Jabb3rJaw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkmenace Posted February 4 Author Share Posted February 4 (edited) 3 hours ago, Jabb3rJaw said: I’ve had this happen using Hyperspin and found when I paused Hyperspin it muted Retroarch in windows and when I exited pause it never unmuted Retroarch in windows. I think it was under sound mixer maybe? I thought that was worth investigating and have done so. Interestingly, if you Launch Retroarch on its own, it gets its own volume control in Windows Volume Mixer (right click speaker on task bar and go to Volume Mixer. When running from Launchbox, LB gets its own volume control but Retroarch doesn't appear to. Not sure if this is relevant or not. Interestingly I can force the TV to use audio via composite (analogue) with video via HDMI. What happens now though is I have to manually change the tv audio output between digital (sound in everything but Retroarch when loaded from LB), or analogue (no sound in anything but retroarch). Edited February 4 by darkmenace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkmenace Posted February 4 Author Share Posted February 4 (edited) 16 hours ago, Jabb3rJaw said: I’ve had this happen using Hyperspin and found when I paused Hyperspin it muted Retroarch in windows and when I exited pause it never unmuted Retroarch in windows. I think it was under sound mixer maybe? I thought this was a possibility after reading the suggestion but Retroarch didnt appear to pop up with its volume control in windows sound control panel like some apps (ie launchbox) do. Using a multimedia keyboard I turned sound up and down in retroarch but no sound could be heard when RA was launched from LB. UPDATE: Resolved by changing video driver from dx11 to Vulcan. That brought back digital audio. Using wasapi audio driver and turned on exclusive mode on that driver to improve audio quality. Hope this helps someone in the future. Update 2: Something’s broken. It turns out everytime I start a retroarch game I need to go in and change the audio driver now (to anything) to get the sound back. Looks like reinstall time at least of retroarch. Edited February 4 by darkmenace 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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