No ventrilo Sound

[R. Baker 1st MRB]

Yesterday when I was on vent it was all fine. Today I come on here and when I do anything on there no sound comes up on my headset or any other headset I have tried. I think people can hear me because when I say "can you speak if you can hear" me the sound icon flashes but I still can't hear anything. PLEASE HELP!

Oh and also when I go onto vent a error message now comes up and says: VoiceCommMixerStart: Invalid voice mux selection. (-1).

[Magoo]

Find me on vent and I will try to help you out. I think I know what your problem is so I will walk you through it on steam.

[R. Baker 1st MRB]

Ok, thanks Magoo speak to you later.

[R. Baker 1st MRB]

Sano has told me how the whole of the setup should be and it is all ok, he suggested than a admin might have accidently made me death on vent because I can hear on every other thing, videos, music, game. So I do not know what else to try.

[Berg 1st MRB]

is it muted for you?

[Magoo]

What operating system? Do you hear events?

[R. Baker 1st MRB]

Vista. No I can't hear anything at all on there.

[Yamagata 1st MRB]

I checked your account just in case you were set up wrong, but all is good on our side.

[R. Baker 1st MRB]

Ok, thanks Sir....

Not sure what to do about it. =[

[Yamagata 1st MRB]

Did you check to make sure your output device is correct?

[R. Baker 1st MRB]

yeah Sano went through everything on the setup and said it all sounds fine.

My output Device is set to: Default Wave Mapper.

If this is wrong please say.

[Yamagata 1st MRB]

At the bottom right corner is the system sound control settings. Click output and make sure the default matches what you use for everything else.

Do you check the use Direct Sound checkbox? And if you do, you might want to manually select the correct output device.

[R. Baker 1st MRB]

I checked the system sound control settings and it looks OK.

I checked the use direct sound box and changed it to the correct output device but I am still unable to hear anything on ventrilo.

[R. Baker 1st MRB]

BUMP?

I need HELP!

[Yamagata 1st MRB]

What OS do you use? XP? Vista? 7? Mac?

And are you using a hardware input mixer?

[R. Baker 1st MRB]

I am using Vista.

Na I'm not using a Hardware input mixer.

[Yamagata 1st MRB]

Alright, not sure if you have these options in Vista, but you can check:

Go to your control panel.

Go to sound (manage audio devices)

Right click the device you are using for DoDs/vent/etc.

Go to Properties.

In the Advanced tab there should be a setting called Exclusive Mode

Uncheck the box that says "Allow Applications to take exclusive control of this device."

Again, I know this works for Win7, not sure about vista...

Also, are you running vent as administrator?

[R. Baker 1st MRB]

Done everything you said, Still no sound.

I'm not running vent as administrator.

[Yamagata 1st MRB]

Try running it as administrator (right click the shortcut to vent, run as administrator)

If that fixes it, you can go into the properties and make it always run as admin.

[R. Baker 1st MRB]

I tried running as administrator and it still has no sound, it does a very faint clicking noise when I change channel but no other sound at all.

[Yamagata 1st MRB]

Hmmm...

That's all I got, last thing I can suggest is reinstall ventrilo. If you are using the 64bit version, maybe try the 32bit version this time around.

[R. Baker 1st MRB]

Ok, thanks Sir, I have re installed it but I will try the 32 bit as suggested.

*Salute*

[R. Baker 1st MRB]

The 32 bit did not work I will run a scan on the program to see if anything happens, if that doesn't work I might just restart my computer completely.

[Yamagata 1st MRB]

Are you still getting the same error message?

Or is there just no sound.

After browsing the ventrilo forums, it looks like the "VoiceCommMixerStart: Invalid voice mux selection. (-1)" error can be fixed by changing the Hardware Input Mixer to either none or the current input/output device

[R. Baker 1st MRB]

The error message has stopped coming up but I tried changing the input device and nothing happened.

[Linvill]

I belive i know whats going on.

Basically i dont know if u did or it was a default switch in the setting but the Options in your vent are messed up.

First thing we will try..

- Setup > Voice"Tab"

- In this Screen we are going to Check BOTH "Use Direct Sound Boxes"

- Secondly Go to the "Input" drop down menu under " Hardware Input Mixer" and Click Mixer

MIXER- Mic

MUX - Mast Vol

Line - Master Vol

Basically we want to make sure that your Vent Settings are correct.

Go ahead and try that and get back to me and we will go from here.

I know my Tech notes are awesome. ITs what i do for a living lol. Chat Support.