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Okay, uninstalling the driver worked. Now I have 2x hdaudio.sys audio drivers in dxdiag. Changed LMMS setting to SDL and now it sounds alright.

Still a little confused why, because the old driver was provided by the computer manufacturer.

Wyzai wrote: I suppose I could try a repair when I have time. There's no workaround?

I am afraid no.
You should definitely have sound testin your dxdiag. When you chose the 'sound-tab', windows would normally show a popup about 'collecting information', then in the notes (lower part of screen) a result would be shown.
Unfortunately MS has optioned not to include a tab for direct-x in win7 and later. (imo a mistake), but there could also be a test-facility in your software driver.
To find that you go to your HW overview, and find sound-drivers. There you should have a button for at test of the unit-driver. Try that.
But the fact that you cant get VLC to play, and that you also are missing sound in some games, points in the direction of a generic sound problem

musikbear wrote:

Wyzai wrote: I suppose I could try a repair when I have time. There's no workaround?

I am afraid no.
You should definitely have sound testin your dxdiag. When you chose the 'sound-tab', windows would normally show a popup about 'collecting information', then in the notes (lower part of screen) a result would be shown.
Unfortunately MS has optioned not to include a tab for direct-x in win7 and later. (imo a mistake), but there could also be a test-facility in your software driver.
To find that you go to your HW overview, and find sound-drivers. There you should have a button for at test of the unit-driver. Try that.
But the fact that you cant get VLC to play, and that you also are missing sound in some games, points in the direction of a generic sound problem

Oh you mean the text bar thing that just says "working as intended", "no errors detected" or something along those lines?

Wyzai wrote:Okay, uninstalling the driver worked. Now I have 2x hdaudio.sys audio drivers in dxdiag. Changed LMMS setting to SDL and now it sounds alright.

Still a little confused why, because the old driver was provided by the computer manufacturer.

Wyzai wrote: Oh you mean the text bar thing that just says "working as intended", "no errors detected" or something along those lines?

Yes, in win7 an actual button for a specific test has been omitted. That was previously there.

Wyzai wrote:Okay, uninstalling the driver worked. Now I have 2x hdaudio.sys audio drivers in dxdiag. Changed LMMS setting to SDL and now it sounds alright.
Still a little confused why, because the old driver was provided by the computer manufacturer.

:) If i understand you, you now have a working backend for SDL, so you can enjoy LMMS :) Great that it worked.

The fact that you have two hdaudio.sys, could be because you overlooked an option for either 'update upgrade' or 'remove before installing'. Im not sure weather it influence your system, but you properly cant see which hdaudio.sys that works and which do not, so deinstall is a 50:50 thing...
Just leave it, for now
What about VLC, does that also work now?

musikbear wrote:

Wyzai wrote: Oh you mean the text bar thing that just says "working as intended", "no errors detected" or something along those lines?

Yes, in win7 an actual button for a specific test has been omitted. That was previously there.

Wyzai wrote:Okay, uninstalling the driver worked. Now I have 2x hdaudio.sys audio drivers in dxdiag. Changed LMMS setting to SDL and now it sounds alright.
Still a little confused why, because the old driver was provided by the computer manufacturer.

If i understand you, you now have a working backend for SDL, so you can enjoy LMMS Great that it worked.

The fact that you have two hdaudio.sys, could be because you overlooked an option for either 'update upgrade' or 'remove before installing'. Im not sure weather it influence your system, but you properly cant see which hdaudio.sys that works and which do not, so deinstall is a 50:50 thing...
Just leave it, for now
What about VLC, does that also work now?

A good question... Yes, yes it does.

Super! looks like you now have an installation without sound-flaws. As i said, these things is often a result of game-demos. Some demos wont even warn you, they just smash their way in, and leave you with the rubble

(btw please read: http://lmms.io/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4683

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