"Sound could not find a path to an output device, will use virtual voice setting." when NOT using Rift

Question

Quite inexplicably, all sounds in my game (Unreal Engine 4.15) start producing the notification that "Sound could not find a path to an output device, will use virtual voice setting.", and are will not play (or at least, not audibly) if I don't have the Rift headset in use.

When I put it on/take it off, it notifies me of the audio thread being resumed/suspended respectively, and resumes/interrupts the audio accordingly.

Anyway know how to make it behave in such a way that I can audition my game even without the Rift headset on?

Comments

Hi there, I was curious if you ever found a solution to this issue? I am having a similar one, but with Unity

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'fraid not, Blake!

I'm still wondering if this will ever get an answer, but perhaps by chiming in it's being bumped to the top of the stack and will get another shot at being answered. Cheers!

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Hi there Chris,

I figured out the issue for my situation, which was actually not an issue with Wwise at all but with SteamVR trying to reset all my audio devices on my machine when launched. The fix for me was - in Unity - setting my script execution order to make sure AKInitializer.cs came before any SteamVR or OpenVR scripts had a chance to execute. Or, I could make my previously broken builds work by setting my desired output device to be set on launch and on close in the SteamVR app. Hope this helps you out as well!