Unable to initialize your audio hardware.

[ian80]

Hi,

When I try to play an AGS game, I get the message:

"Unable to initialize your audio hardware.
Problem: Failed to init digital sound driver"

Anyone know what is causing this? Everything else on my computer uses sound just fine.

[a-v-o]

Maybe it helps if you run winsetup.exe in the game folder and select a different device for digitial sound.

Maybe there is an application open in the background which is already using the device. I get this error when I try to start 2 instances of a game, then the secon game reports the error when it starts.

[ian80]

Nope, tries both. Still getting the error?

[Silbad]

I encountered this problem a few weeks ago, when I swap from Windows 2000 to Win XP.

I solved it changing the Playback device of Windows.
To do this, from the Start icon, choose Settings > Sounds and Audio Devices > Audio tab, and check wether you have several Playback devices in the list. If yes, try changing it and start your AGS game.

I don't know if it's the answer to your problem, but for me, it worked!

[Silbad]

In fact, the error on my computer is not corrected. But I found this, from SteveMcCrea:

When I try to run a game made with 2.6, it pops up a messagebox that says "Failed to your initialize audio hardware" unless I change the Digital Sound from 'Default DirectSound Device' to 'Default WaveOut Device'.

This happened on both machines I tried it on - both were running Win2000 and DirectX 9 I think.

It's okay now!