Bug: SteamVR and no audio

[GeneralChaos81]

I have an Oculus Rift; when I start Consortium: The Tower it also fires up SteamVR then the game has no audio. All volume set to 0, cannot be turned up.

Obviously expecting SteamVR to not be started, and I think this directly influences the fact I get no sound. No audio through rift headphones either.

Asrock B250 K4
i7-7700k
Nvidia 970
Oc Rift.

[GreatBird]

Did you ever find a way around this? A bunch of us have Rifts and have not seen this issue occur....although there do seem to be quite a few cases where SteamVR and the Oculus software do annoying things...

[l33tbmb]

I had my sound device set to the Rift from playing earlier before launching the tower beta for the first time. I realized all sound was pumping to the rift headphones after restarting the game a couple times. I set my audio device back to my normal speakers but the oculus software keeps launching with the game and sound is sent to the headset. I have the same situation with the volume sliders all at 0 and unable to adjust any of them. In my case only the Oculus software starts up, SteamVR does not load with the game.

It's funny, I logged into the forums for the first time to share this and one of the top posts is my exact issue, how often does that ever happen?

P.S. Where are the game configs stored? I'm curious if I can specify the audio device directly in the setup file.

[Mykll]

No VR installed and only one sound output but maybe this will help.

\steamapps\common\Consortium The Tower\thetower\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor
GameUserSettings.ini has some settings, although I do not see sounds. Other than sound quality setting.

\steamapps\common\Consortium The Tower\thetower\Saved\csav
inputsettings.ini is the, well, settings of the inputs.

Just in case, I double checked and do not see any iDGi or Consortium folders under standard Windows "My Documents" or "My Games".

[l33tbmb]

Thank you for the config file path, Mykll

An entry is created in Engine.ini for the Oculus, but removing or modifying the AudioOutputDevice line doesn't stick. It doesn't look like I can tell the game to not launch the software and set audio to the headset through config files.

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[Oculus.Settings]
GraphicsAdapter=0
AudioInputDevice="{0.0.1.00000000}.{4631020f-59d9-4c55-96df-4c0a7b90719f}"
AudioOutputDevice="{0.0.0.00000000}.{f1009ff1-3ed4-40e8-a516-f62867b2fc03}"