Solved No system sounds

Hey guys did an inplace upgrade last night, and found that ALL system sounds are silent, ALL others such as vlc, youtube etc are fine (after going into setttings and make my onboard sound for those apps default).

System sounds is the default audio, and cannot change it, but it ain't working! Any ideas?

Driver incompatibility, probably.

It works fine in everything else but no windows sounds.

Make sure system sounds is not set to 0 in Settings --> (search for) Sound mixer settings.

They are working for me just fine.

I worked it out, forgot I had FX Sound installed, only realised when loading up Black Mesa had no sound either! Uninstalled FX Sound, and bang all is good again, even got the startup sound when rebooting.

Often this is due to the generic Windows HD audio driver not working properly with the Realtek HD audio chip on the motherboard, if you have on-board audio support. You may need to search for the Realtek download site and download and install genuine Realtek drivers and codecs. I went for several months after upgrading to Windows 8 from 7, believing it had no sounds, then I discovered the reason why.

fafhrd said:

You may need to search for the Realtek download site and download and install genuine Realtek drivers and codecs

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I do know that, I have update drivers of all I need on this pc. All FX Sound did on win 11 was stop SOME sounds. Anyway I uninstalled FX Sound and all good.

Dwarfr66 said:

I do know that, I have update drivers of all I need on this pc. All FX Sound did on win 11 was stop SOME sounds. Anyway I uninstalled FX Sound and all good.

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I am using FxSound 2 and it's working fine.

jeffboon97 said:

I am using FxSound 2 and it's working fine.View attachment 1203

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Yes I have found FX Sound don't work but I just tried DFX and all is good again, thanks for that, totally forgot about DFX!

I had the same problem with FX Sound. I uninstalled it, and installed again. And it works again.