# No Sound with Alienware Sound Center

**URL:** <https://forums.funcom.com/t/no-sound-with-alienware-sound-center/90100>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [October 11, 2019, 6:27pm UTC](https://forums.funcom.com/t/no-sound-with-alienware-sound-center/90100 "2019-10-11T18:27:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![skyh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@skyh](https://forums.funcom.com/u/skyh)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 6:27pm UTC](https://forums.funcom.com/t/no-sound-with-alienware-sound-center/90100/1 "2019-10-11T18:27:44Z")

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When the Alienware Sound Center is running, SWL has no sound.

In order to get sound, I have to exit the Alienware Sound Center (in my System Tray) before starting SWL. I don’t know if this will get fixed, so I thought this workaround might be helpful for anyone else having this problem.

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**Author:** ![Dalekani](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/funcom/user_avatar/forums.funcom.com/dalekani/32/426_2.png) [@Dalekani](https://forums.funcom.com/u/Dalekani)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 8:03pm UTC](https://forums.funcom.com/t/no-sound-with-alienware-sound-center/90100/2 "2019-10-11T20:03:21Z")

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That might be my issue as well. Does it only affect Funcom games for you?

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**Author:** ![skyh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@skyh](https://forums.funcom.com/u/skyh)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2019, 8:21pm UTC](https://forums.funcom.com/t/no-sound-with-alienware-sound-center/90100/3 "2019-10-12T20:21:38Z")

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It also affected Blizzard’s Heroes of the Storm and Starcraft 2.

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**Author:** ![Dalekani](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/funcom/user_avatar/forums.funcom.com/dalekani/32/426_2.png) [@Dalekani](https://forums.funcom.com/u/Dalekani)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2019, 8:31am UTC](https://forums.funcom.com/t/no-sound-with-alienware-sound-center/90100/4 "2019-10-13T08:31:04Z")

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Huh. Weird. I don’t recall having audio issues with SC2, never played HotS, but it’s been a while for playing SC2 for me. But what you said you did worked for me, so thank you.

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**Author:** ![Oskmey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/5fc32e/32.png) [@Oskmey](https://forums.funcom.com/u/Oskmey)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2019, 3:19pm UTC](https://forums.funcom.com/t/no-sound-with-alienware-sound-center/90100/5 "2019-10-14T15:19:14Z")

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We had a long post on this awhile back when myself and a few others noticed our sound would work randomly and finally figured out it was the Sound Center. Apparently the issue pre-dated even before then and I am not hopeful for a fix. For now just remember to exit out.

Went back and dug it out:

> [@Sound stops working randomly - Steam](https://forums.funcom.com/t/sound-stops-working-randomly-steam/41677/34):
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> I have mine working once again, although I never know when it may be temporary. I checked for the most recent updates for anything connected to sound, BIOS, etc. No updates needed to be applied. So I right clicked on the speaker icon in the system tray and selected “Sounds”. This brought up the Sound dialog box. Unfortunately I changed a few settings at once instead of my usual one at a time and test. Under the Communications tab I changed it to “Do nothing”. Under the Playback tab I doubled…