After upgrading to 2.90 sound is out and gamnes not all working.

[Stingm]

I love scummvm and have never really had any issues. But I got the new 2.90 and get the following error: WARNING: Could not open audio device: WASAPI can't initialize audio client: ᧿!

Never had any issues like this before. As I said it was working fine windows 11 until the upgrade to 2.90. I would appreciate any help fixing.

[rootfather]

IIRC we had issues like that in the past that were related to outdated Audio drivers and an update fixed it. Are other applications using WASAPI affected as well?

You could also try to set SDL_AUDIODRIVER=directsound as environment variable, trying to use DSound instead of WASAPI.

[Stingm]

No other apps effected. I assume I go to scummvm.exe and right click properties and add that bit to the end of the launch file?
How do i set that variable?

[Stingm]

How do i set the variable set SDL_AUDIODRIVER=directsound ? Any help appreciated?

[Praetorian]

Read through this topic; the linked post specifically has instructions on how to do this in a shortcut for ScummVM (adjust any paths according to your own of course):
viewtopic.php?p=98867#p98867

[Raziel]

in cmd prompt, do

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setx /M SDL_AUDIODRIVER "directsound"

drop the /M switch if you only want to set it for the current user (not globally)

[Stingm]

Okay I tried that and all appears to be well. Thanks a bunch, as I love scummvm. Will I need to do this with every new version or should I try them first?

[Raziel]

no, this a global value (as long as no other app changes it or you set your system up anew, it will stay)

all sdl apps will read and use it, so if you get sound problems in other apps you might want to revisit this.