Sound Playing Through Speakers Not Headphones
The sound plays perfectly through the headphones in the pre-boot diagnostics. So I figure, this must be a problem with Ubuntu not recognizing my sound card. Please try to give a solution for this problem. Headphones speakers. Playing music through speakers etc. While they were in. Jan 16, 2014 When I mute all sound using the master volume control, playback continues through my headphones, but not my main speakers. This is getting weird. On top of that, my headphones are not listed under 'playback devices'. EDIT 2: New symptom. Sound isn't coming through the jack at all anymore. I'm assuming hardware failure.
Okay, here's my problem. My audio source in Windows 7 is my 'Speakers'. My headphones are plugged into a USB 3.5mm stick into the computer. I have to change my audio source from 'Speakers' to the USB 'stick' in order to hear my audio through my headphones. Once I do that, Open Broadcaster Software will not hear any audio coming from my computer (or my game) and only streams the video.
Is there a way around this?I only want the software to capture the game audio. I have a mic and can't use it when the speakers get picked up by it.Maybe there is a way to use TWO sources of audio in the volume control panel? I could technically turn the speakers down manually and run my headphones at the same time if that could be done.I can't plugged the headphones into the speakers directly, since the DB is much lower.
I set the volume mixer to headphones. I'm getting sound through the headphones yes, but OBS is NOT picking up any game audio. I only have 3 options in OBS to capture an audio source: Default, Speakers, or USB Headphones. I only get audio when the source is on 'Speakers', but that will not work if my volume mixer 'Default' is on 'Headphones'.The issue is that OBS is asking what source to capture audio from.
If the source is speakers and I have my audio defaulted to my headphones via an external USB mixer, it doesn't get audio naturally. I'm wondering if there is a way around this.The game doesn't have any audio options for output. It's BF3, it only asks what type of system you have. The game isn't the issue, it's OBS and the Windows 7 Mixer.
Sorry, forgot I posted this. Found a fix (albeit odd).
I had to open Far Cry, then Windows key to get the start menu up, then I did as follows (Windows 7, HP Elitebook Laptop, IDT Audio Driver):Control PanelHardware and SoundIDT Audio Control PanelPlaybackThen I had to select the headphones, select the setup tab on the left, and hit 'Test Speakers.' Not sure why this worked, buuuuut it did. I updated IDT, I reinstalled the game fresh, and everything, but this was the only thing that I could do to get it to work.
Ok, I think I nailed it down this time. Somehow my headphones got set as the 'Default Communication Device' in the audio devices window. I set the main laptop speakers back to being the default communication device, and now it is playing through the headphones.
This is very odd to me, as Far Cry was the only game this happened with. KSP, GTA, Fallout 3, Thief, and many more functioned perfectly with the headphones set as default. Hope this helps someone else who is having the same issue. Hi, i have the same problem but with Driver San Francisco (which as Far Cry, uses uPlay), but I haven't managed to solve the problem.I tried setting the speaker as default as you mention, but the audio remains on the speakers.What I noticed, is that whenever I am running uPlay (having steam 'on' or not, just opening uPlay as a standalone app), makes the audio switch to the laptop speakers instead of the headphones. As soon as I close uPlay, the audio jumps back again to the headphones!I definitely think it is a uPlay issue, because no other games have this problem (although the only uplay game i have is Driver), but I just can't get it to work!Any ideas? Does this happen to you with uplay games only too? Originally posted by:Hi, i have the same problem but with Driver San Francisco (which as Far Cry, uses uPlay), but I haven't managed to solve the problem.I tried setting the speaker as default as you mention, but the audio remains on the speakers.What I noticed, is that whenever I am running uPlay (having steam 'on' or not, just opening uPlay as a standalone app), makes the audio switch to the laptop speakers instead of the headphones.
As soon as I close uPlay, the audio jumps back again to the headphones!I definitely think it is a uPlay issue, because no other games have this problem (although the only uplay game i have is Driver), but I just can't get it to work!Any ideas? Does this happen to you with uplay games only too? Headphones work for me on all of my uplay bames & I am using a laptop like the OP.
However I had to do the opposite of the OP. I had to set my headphones to the default not the laptop speakers. I am on an Alienware 18 laptop using Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. This is a communication error with uplay.
Laptop Won't Play Sound Through Headphones
Computer Plays Sound Through Speakers Not Headphones
If you partially plug in your headphones using a typical 3.5 mm jack (the little hole), you will probably hear sound coming from them. The sound is screwed up, and in the wrong channels, but the point is that the headphones aren't fully recognized by everything on your comp while in that state.Everybody seems to have a different solution because basically you are just resetting the signal to all your audio devices when changing a default. For me, I just open the game and push 'set default' for my comp speakers. However, if I unplug and replug my headphones I have to redo this. This is just something that ubisoft has to debug.
Originally posted by:Ok, I think I nailed it down this time. Somehow my headphones got set as the 'Default Communication Device' in the audio devices window. I set the main laptop speakers back to being the default communication device, and now it is playing through the headphones. This is very odd to me, as Far Cry was the only game this happened with. KSP, GTA, Fallout 3, Thief, and many more functioned perfectly with the headphones set as default.
Hope this helps someone else who is having the same issue.This worked for me! Thank you, sir.