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  1. 12-11-2011 05:29 AM #1
    Aramyth
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    Audio Problem after installing

    Hi all,

    I just recently re installed POL (with FFXI updating as I post this) through Steam.

    It has seemed to cause an audio issue on my laptop. I'm running Windows 7 on an Asus Quad-Core i7 and it's using Realtek HD Audio for the drivers.

    What's happening is that when I plug headphones in, it's not detecting that they're plugged in at all and will play audio with speakers and headphones. It will however detect that headphones have been plugged in if I plug them into the microphone jack.

    I've tried rebooting my computer, reinstalling/updating drivers, and checking my preferences. Nothing has seemed to worked.

    I'm debating on doing a system restore after the game is installed so see if that's an issue. Can I just back up the FFXI folder in my steamapps folder so that I don't have to update the entire game again?

    If anyone has any ideas on how to fix this, I'd appreciate it.
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  2. 12-11-2011 09:41 AM #2
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    that sounds more like a system config or system driver issue, and not FFXI.

    Some of those Realtek solutions allow you to customize some of the jacks. When it is set in different speaker modes (2.1, 4.1, 5.1, etc) at least one of the jacks usually changes it's role and such. In many of their solutions, one is a sort of "versa-jack" and can be set to run as line out, speaker out, digital out, etc. You may need to go through your Realtek control panel to see which one the headphones have been assigned to to make sure you are plugging into the right jack.
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  3. 12-12-2011 12:27 AM #3
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    It only happened right after I installed FFXI.

    I've looked around in all my audio options and there is nothing that has to do with the output jacks and nothing that has to do with headphones.

    It weird and it sucks because I use headphones 100% of the time.
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  4. 12-12-2011 02:58 AM #4
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    check to see if your driver got updated recently (like, maybe via windows Update), if so...try rolling it back?

    Also, check your speaker configuration also in the Windows control panel (Sounds and Audio I think it was)--this can sometimes trip up the headphone detection sometimes too. On my PC's last Gigabyte board, I had to manually change it to headphones there to cut off the speakers when I used the front headphone jack--if I pulled the box and and plugged in the back jack it worked, but not with the front one.
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