MariosX Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 Hello! I've just installed Windows 8. It took me a while getting used to it but now I'm encountering a major problem. There is no sound in most Metro UI Apps. However, when I first installed Windows 8 these apps were working properly. I searched google and it seems it is a common issue but I haven't found any solution Can somebody help me on this? Metro Apps installed: Google Search Skype tunein ebay wikipedia Metro Apps uninstalled: Finance News Sports Desktop Apps installed: ?Torrent 7-Zip Adobe Shockwave Player AMD Catalyst Google Chrome Intel SSD Toolbox Logitech Setpoin Mozilla Firefox Media Player Classic Home Cinema Enabled Windows Feautures: Hyper-V System Specs: CPU: Intel i7 920 RAM: 3x2GB OCZ Core i7 Edition 8-8-8-24 M/B: MSI X58A-GD65 Graphics Card: Sapphire HD4870 1GB SSD: Intel M-25 80GB HDD: 2x1TB RAID0 Western Digital Caviar Black Sound Card: Auzentech Hometheater HD 7.1 Note: I haven't installed any drivers for the sound cards. At first I thought something was messed up in the previous Windows 8 installation with the drivers of Auzentech which they do not support Windows 8 and I did a format. The Metro UI apps worked fine with the new clean installation without drivers. Also Metro Music, Video work fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dot Matrix Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 There is no sound in Metro apps regardless. If Music and Video work, that tells me there is no problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MariosX Posted November 15, 2012 Author Share Posted November 15, 2012 There is no sound in Metro apps regardless. If Music and Video work, that tells me there is no problem. But there is. It's exactly what I'm saying. There is no sound in tunein radio, neither on Youvue, Tuba.fm But there is in pianotime and Play Guitar. All these apps I tried them now so YES there is a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mduren2445 Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 Loading... [/url] 11.06.2012 - Windows 8 Driver Schedule ? Press Releases - 11.06.2012 Windows 8 Driver Schedule Auzentech announces Windows 8 release schedule for Sound Card Drivers San Jose, CA: Auzentech, Inc (www.auzentech.com) is pleased to announce the following release schedule for Auzentech soundcard drivers compatible with Microsoft Windows 8. C-Media has promised the driver update that applies to the Auzen X-Plosion and X-Meridian 7.1 2G on Windows 8 by the end of November, 2012 Creative has promised the drivers for X-Fi Forte and X-Fi HomeTheater HD in mid-January, 2013 To track upcoming releases on the Auzentech Sound Card Driver Release Schedule page: http://www.auzentech.com/site/download/schedule.php you are probably using generic sound drivers . Although you may be getting sound elsewhere the apps you are concerned with just don't like the driver Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MariosX Posted November 15, 2012 Author Share Posted November 15, 2012 I'm really sorry. I forgot to mention: I'm using the Intergrated Realtek sound card at the momment since the Auzentech does not even get recognized. But still wheter I'm using the generic drivers or I install the drivers for Realtek (which the drivers support Windows 8) I still do not get sound from these metro apps. However, that would not explain why these specific apps worked fine on a fresh-fresh install There must be some conflict with something I installed or updated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ve7878 Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 Have you tried restarting? I had an issue with the Music app in that the volume kept reducing when switching to the desktop. I restarted the machine and it solved it, shutting down the PC obviously wasn't doing anything as it doesn't do a proper reboot that way in Windows 8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MariosX Posted November 15, 2012 Author Share Posted November 15, 2012 Have you tried restarting? I had an issue with the Music app in that the volume kept reducing when switching to the desktop. I restarted the machine and it solved it, shutting down the PC obviously wasn't doing anything as it doesn't do a proper reboot that way in Windows 8. Many, many, times... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ve7878 Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 Ah okay, I thought you might have. I'm not entirely sure though, it's as if modern apps don't take any notice of the system settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MariosX Posted November 16, 2012 Author Share Posted November 16, 2012 Found it! What was affecting the videos & music was ATI Legacy Drivers even though they say that the drivers fully support Windows 8... What a let down.. Also, if you install Hyper-V you cannot play any video file with any app. It seems Windows 8 are still at an early stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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