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I've been experiencing a weird bug these days.While playing IV,my sound vanishes randomly.Sometimes it just vanishes as soon as I start the game.But now it has infected the whole pc.It goes out randomly even if I'm just listening to songs.But when I close the application *(GTA:IV or songs or anything audio media related),and touch the volume button on the taskbar or even restart the application,I discover that the sound is just there. What the...?? But most of the times,it manifests itself while playing GTA:IV.And when I try to quit the game,it doesn't responds.I have to press alt+ctrl+del to get rid of it.I'm fed up of this.

Note: I'm using a 3.5mm jack plugged into the speaker slot.But this might not be the problem,I guess.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Dhruv.

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Only thing I can sugest is reinstaling the sound drivers which has the effect of setting everything back to default values.

About a month ago I was having nightmares with Audio related stuff. I use Realtek HDaudio drivers and had to revert back to a previous driver, since then though for some reason the latest Realtek driver works fine for me and my issues were resolved.

Long story short : Easy enough to instal a new driver so might as well give it a shot and see if it clears up your problem.

Edit: Just thought I would mention this, on very rare occassions I can get into my car at the begining of the game in GTA IV and there is no engine sound. Just the sound of the tyres on road and susspension squeaks. Unrelated and not a severe as your problem but GTA IV for me has had sound issues off and on in the past. For me it normally sorts itself out after a few minutes

Your problem sounds more general though as it effects stuff outside of game.

Also if you have a seperate sound card remove it and put it back in. Connections can get a bit iffy over time.

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I've tried doing that.But Win7 seems to be extremely curious on auto-installing the drivers and before I can make a move or understand anything,it had them installed already.Tried to do the same thing several times,but couldn't outsmart Mr. Gates' annoying OS.

As for the IV engine sound problem,I'm very likely to run into this problem if I spawn a car with SNT.Then,the engine sound comes back ONLY when a same car passes by me.

I have not touched the card EVER.

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Will it stop auto-installing the drivers?

It gives you 3 options if memory serves me.

Instal all updates.

Download but don't instal without asking you.

or dont download or install anything.

Set it to get your permission to actually instal, that way you can review and choose what goes in and what doesn't.

Just looked, it's in Security / windows update /settings in control panel.

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