Sound In Games RANDOMLY Stops Working

Garlotch

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Jun 27, 2014
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Hey there, I have a problem with my windows 7 laptop. When ever I run world of tanks (fullscreen) or war thunder (full screen), the sound works fine. And If I go Alt+Tab and work on something for 20min the sound usually still works. But sometimes, If I come back to a game I have minimized, the sound will have RANDOMLY STOPPED working! I go to the sound mixer and the volume is put up full, but there is still no sound coming from the game. Yes I do mostly use headphones. Yes I am quite sure that my sound drivers are up to date. Yes I have ran windows updates for the last week or two, (just turned them off because of the annoyance concerning delayed startup/shutdown). The sound works again, if I restart the game, but it is very hassle-some. Can any one help me? Thanks! :)
 
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Sounds like the window isn't being regarded as being in focus again. Have you tried running it in windowed mode with full screen? assuming that's in the settings. It will still look like it's running in full screen but it should stop issues when alt-tabbing in and out.

Chris Scott 84

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Sounds like the window isn't being regarded as being in focus again. Have you tried running it in windowed mode with full screen? assuming that's in the settings. It will still look like it's running in full screen but it should stop issues when alt-tabbing in and out.
 
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