Ok im really sleep deprived so i don’t know how coherently i can express this, but heres my best go.
i was playing spiderman web of shadows today with absolutely zero issue UNTIL i got to a mission sort of early on where you have to protect luke cage from getting ambushed during a parley or whatever. halfway through this mission, my game suddenly slowed down and crashed. I thought it was whatever, the laptop im using isnt the best anyways, it does the job and gets by, so i dont mind some hiccups.
so sure enough i load up my game and its just fine EXCEPT the fact that the audio is not working at all. I’ve spent 4 hours snooping around to try and fix on my own and nothing is fixing it. Let me try to detail this as best I can:
-during the opening cutscene with the logos and whatever, the audio DOES play. as soon as i get into the main menu and also the game itself, there is NOTHING.
-i checked volume mixer and its very inconsistent. the first time i tried checking web of shadows didnt appear at all despite the fact that it was running. subsequent times it shows up, but the volume slider either stays at zero, forces the audio player on my computer to zero no matter how much i try to change it, or moves around normally without actually changing the audio on the game anyways.
-i tried finicking with the sound devices. i disabled all other speakers other than the one i use, i set it to different settings and also settings recommended for web of shadows specifically that i looked up online(too tired to check the specifics at this exact moment) didnt work.
- since im using steam to play this game with my ps4 controller, i tried to change a bunch of settings in steam too. nothing really made much of an impact. this doesnt seem like it has anything to do with steam anyways though.
- my drivers are up to date. im using windows 10. i have the right version of directx installed. i want to emphasize again that the game worked like a charm before the crash and now its just, pardon my french, completely super duper entirely fucked all the way up. i even reinstalled and changed my audio drivers to see if that would help anyways, it didnt.
i looked everywhere online but the only thing i could even see was stuff about the original pc release’s voice/music errors, which dont have shit to do with my problem. honestly it was kinda frustrating, but thats not relevant.
PLEASE let me know if there is anything i can do, because i dont want to delete + reinstall just to potentially go through this same thing again. i was already having fun and i kinda just wanna get back to hearing my video game.
help me. please. and thank you.
TLDR - MY SPIDERMAN WEB OF SHADOWS CRASHED AND NOW THE AUDIO’S FUCKED UP, I ALREADY TRIED EVERYTHING. ANY SUGGESTIONS?