Guild Wars 2

Since the release of the feature pack, I am unable to select a custom sound device in the sound options of GW2.

The drop down list of the available sound devices now only contains one entry, the text “Standard device”. Before the feature pack, I was able to select from the many sound output devices on my system. The feature update reset my custom set device to the standard Windows device, and now I am unable to select any custom device again.

I use a custom device for video+audio recording to record only the game sound without any interference of other sound sources. The function was quite useful, and it does not seem right that it has no functionality any more.

yes, they are gone

very bad for players who often switch between speakers at sound card and usb-headphones

I have the same problem. The default device is now locked to my headphone. no options to switch

This problem has been fixed in the newest update. Great! Many thanks.

@yontory: you may have missed a Windows feature with the sound system to get the game sound through your speakers and voip software through the headphones. In Windows, you can declare one sound output device as “standard device”, and one other as “standard communication device”.

Declare your speakers as standard device and your headpone as standard communication device. Voip software will automatically choose the standard communication device for output (if it is plugged in) and everything else will use the standard device.
It seems that in your case you set the headphone as standard device, so everything goes through it as long as it is plugged in.