Now sure if im allowed to bump this thread to acdd a solution but here goes nothing Type "App Volume" in the Windows Search or go into Windows Sound Control Panel and find the option App Volume and Device Prefrences Set Supreme Commander Forged Alliance to your headset, DO NOT SET IT TO STEELSERIES/SONAR. Now Windows will remember to always use your headset output instead of the Steelseries Virtual Output. [image: 1767143213060-5ed3cf20-d053-4e14-a865-b33f4abcb218-image.png]

@dassmatte just to clarify, even these faqs don't help? That is, the game still crashes even if the sound is disabled or the sound folder is manually removed/renamed? It would be helpful if you could give some more info on your setup, especially for what concerns your audio setup: the more info, the more likely someone will be able to help. 44199hz This is probably s a typo but you are supposed to use 44100 Hz

@Jip I changed to stereo and to 16bit 44100MHz like in the instructions and deleted %LOCALAPPDATA%\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\Game.prefs and started Supcom FA on steam, it took veeery long time to start and lagged ALOT like 0.2 fps, took like 10 minutes to get to the menu (last time i started it when i installed it, it started in like 3 seconds) created a new profile and chose it so I saw the menu and then i quit the game. Started the FAF client which also took a long time to start, like 5-6 minutes and started a game against a bot. when the game started and commander had settled down i went into the menu and changed resolution and graphics, hit ok and played for 1 minute, then i went into audio options to turn down the music but none of the sliders did anything. I dont remember if i hit ok or abort or if i left the slider at max, then I played a minute more before it crashed again. Looks like the same issue. Last lines in crash log: info: Hooked /lua/ui/game/commandgraph.lua with /schook/lua/ui/game/commandgraph.lua warning: CreateCybranBuildBeams is deprecated: use CreateCybranBuildBeamsOpti instead. warning: Source: { table: 16301550 warning: currentline=234, warning: func=function: 1E5EE6E0, warning: linedefined=232, warning: name="CreateCybranFactoryBuildEffects", warning: namewhat="field", warning: nups=3, warning: short_src="...a\faforever\gamedata\lua.nx2\lua\effectutilities.lua", warning: source="@c:\programdata\faforever\gamedata\lua.nx2\lua\effectutilities.lua", warning: what="Lua" warning: } debug: Current gametime: 00:01:00 info: SC_SecondaryAdapter false info: SC_SecondaryAdapter false debug: Current gametime: 00:01:30 info: SC_SecondaryAdapter false warning: SND: Error playing cue 2 on bank 5 [music] XACT: Invalid arg debug: Current gametime: 00:02:00