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Losing sound on laptop
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I seem to have lost the sound fuction on my laptop, and now the speakers dont work at all, when they where fine a week ago. Whenever I try to use my emulator I get the following message:
Unable to initialise DirectSound. You will not be able to hear any sound effects or music while playing. It is usually caused by not having DirectX installed, another application has already opended DirectSound in exclusive mode or the Windows WAVE device has been opened.
Its not just the emulator, I cant get any sound from my other games, from the intrenet anything!
If anyone could help I'd be really grateful.
Unable to initialise DirectSound. You will not be able to hear any sound effects or music while playing. It is usually caused by not having DirectX installed, another application has already opended DirectSound in exclusive mode or the Windows WAVE device has been opened.
Its not just the emulator, I cant get any sound from my other games, from the intrenet anything!
If anyone could help I'd be really grateful.
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Laptop make & model might help.
Windows Media Player cannot play the file because there is a problem with your sound device. There might not be a sound device installed on your computer, it might be in use by another program, or it might not be functioning properly.
Somewhere in start -> control panel -> system will be a list of devices on your machine. If no conflicts are noted, then you can try reinstalling the drivers for your soundcard - they are available here.
Sound FAQs
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I'm too out of touch to be of any use beyond that. Sorry.
ETA - Bit of a long shot, but pressing Fn & F2 should mute the sound. I don't suppose for a second that muting it would cause the errors you are seeing, but it might be worth a go.