Issues with sound and fullscreen

[Tante2k]

I don't know if this is a known problem or not. I've tried searching, and I can't find anyone with the exact same issues as mine.

Short version:

Sound never works when game is in fullscreen, music sometimes works when game is in fullscreen.

Longer version:

No matter what sound/music packages I use, there is an issue with running the game in fullscreen. It seems completely random whether or not sound works. Music sometimes works in fullscreen, but never sound. It works perfectly when I run the game windowed. It seems to be related to the sound format the game sends. I'm playing it on a NUC connected to a receiver via HDMI. When I boot it up, I can see my receiver tell me my source doesn't contain any channels. However, I can alt-tab out and start something like a YouTube video in the background to get the sound back on, which tells me essentially that unless I feed the Windows Mixer with other sound sources that includes sound channels, the signal coming through the HDMI is some sort of sound stream without an address, or that the game somehow defaults to a sound format that my receiver can't deal with (which is not many, but they exist). I imagine I can fix this if I can find some way to edit what the game sends, but I wouldn't know where to start.

Am I the only one with this problem?

Is there any way to edit what sound formats the game uses?

[jfs]

Since you mention a NUC I'll assume you're using Windows.

There's two sound drivers available on Windows for OpenTTD. The default is the XAudio one, the alternative is the Win32 one. Both accept two parameters for the driver initialisation, "hz" and "bufsize". The default samplerate (hz parameter) is 44100.

Find your openttd.cfg file, open in a text editor. One of the early lines should be "sound =" or "sounddriver =", I can't remember if it's one or the other.

Change the sound driver to:

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win32:hz=48000

For example, to use 48 kHz samplerate instead of 44.1 kHz.
You can also try to change between "xaudio" and "win32" see if that makes a difference.

[Tante2k]

This is the result when I tried your line.

https://i.imgur.com/reLdHyf.png

[jfs]

That would indicate you either have no sound devices at all (check your Windows sound settings) or that some other application is using your sound in exclusive mode.
If you can, try testing with a pair of headphones hooked up directly to the computer, and set as the default sound playback device.