No Sound -- Temporary Fix

[ThunderBeef]

For those of you who were getting no sound from the UDK content/demos (like I was). Change your speaker settings (through windows control panel) to at least a 5.1 setup... even if you don't have an actual 5.1 speaker setup.

I'm on XP, after running through some logs I noticed the XAudio2Device would fail to initialize if the configuration was below a 5.1 setup. So far I've had no problems with any of the other content. Thought I'd mention it as a fix since there are no UIs in these demos to adjust any of the system settings, outside of manually doing it through the .inis or console.

[BlindRob]

Thank you sir. This was driving me nuts for a while.

[Argawaen]

The UDK mixes in 5.1, then downsamples to stereo if necessary. Do you have a 4.1 or 2.1 system perchance?

Cheers
John

[ThunderBeef]

I'm using a 4.1 setup, on a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS, and I never had the issue with UT3. For some reason, none of the sounds worked from the UDK, the demos (Whizzle/UT) as well as within the asset browser (which btw is an awesome upgrade over the old generic browser).

The only errors in the launch log were with that XAudio2Device, failure to detect a 5.1 system. So i'm not actually sure if its an issue with the downsampling playback or the audio system not being initialized at all.

Before digging through the logs, I searched online for the problem and ran into some other posts by people having the same issue with the showcase demos. So i don't think its isolated.