So, this is a bit of a wild ride. I've been having major issues with audio in Alan Wake on PC. I've owned the game on Steam for a while, even played through it maybe not less then a year ago... For some reason now audio refuses to consistently play through HDMI. It does in certain situations, but never fully and never consistently. Let's start with a list of things I've tried/noticed while working on the Steam version:
The only games effected are Alan Wake and it's mini-sequel American Nightmare. I've started a fair number of other games in my library with no issues.
Tried to Alt Tab out of the game and set the default for Alan Wake as an application to HDMI. Game doesn't care, plays through speakers anyway.
Volume Mixer most of the time only shows Alan Wake under speakers, but sometimes shows up under both. Sound still does not play when it shows under both.
Disabling the onboard speakers just results in no sound.
No driver updates that I can find, but if anyone has recommendations on good driver update software I'd be willing to look again.
Running Steam/Alan Wake as admin does nothing.
Did have Nahimic 2 installed on my computer. Uninstalled it, no change.
Changed the Realtek drivers to instead go through generic Windows drivers. No change.
Changed HDMI drivers to go through generic Windows drivers. No audio anywhere.
No difference in Big Picture vs. regular start up.
HDMI speakers are set as default when they are plugged in.
Uninstalled the game, no change.
In an act of desperation, I then repurchased the game through the Xbox Storefront on PC (It was only $12), and have run into a weird, seemingly related set of issues. Now audio plays perfectly at 4K, as the Xbox storefront version is apparently capable of 4K. (I swear the Steam version caps at 1080p, but maybe I just didn't notice). However, my computer is not capable of running the game at 4K. It chugs, bad, it's basically unplayable. Dipping the resolution back down to 1080p causes the audio to disappear again! I just can't win! I haven't tried lower then 1080p (I could probably live at 720, that's probably all the original 360 version ran at) but other then that I've tried all I can think of.
Obligatory PC stats part of the post:
CPU: Intel i5-7300HQ CPU
RAM: 8GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
Submitted by Sonic10122 | #Specialdealer Special Offer Online Shopping Store 2016
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