Guild Wars 2

Greetings,

I use a Republic of Gamers headset, the ORION I believe. I bought this headset less than a year ago and they worked perfectly until a few minutes ago, when I swapped my custom music playlists back in the game’s folders. Upon starting the game, my custom main menu songs played normally, and so I picked a character and loaded straits of devastation. The music stopped during the loading as it usually does, however that is the last bit of sound I have heard from the headset since. I played on the character for maybe 5 minutes without any music or sound before getting annoyed and investigating.

I went back to the character select screen and alt-tabbed out, went on youtube on a random video to see if it was only guild wars 2. It was not. I played a random music track in windows media player. Nothing. Yet, when I unplugged the headset, I could hear the track and one of my main menu tracks on gw2 coming out of my laptop’s muffled speakers..

I’ve restarted my computer and there is still no sound to be heard. I’ve also tried muting and unmuting the audio output, with no success.

I realize that my headset is probably not really broken and that the fix to this issue is probably extremely simple, however I don’t see what I am missing and the computer restart not working worries me.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, I have been playing the game with this particular headset for about a week, and today was the first time I would play with the custom tracks. However, I have the game since the beta, and used other headphones then. Both the official soundtrack and my playlists worked fine then. Lastly, I might as well mention that the first (old) headset used a USB plug, while mine uses 2 audio jacks, eg. 1 for the inut and 1 for the output.

2nd Edit: Okay, this is really embarassing….The headset is perfectly fine, the output volume just dropped significantly while staying at the same max volume percentage. To clarify:

I set my output volume at 11%, as the volume would quickly get too loud if set higher than that. Somehow, the above experience significantly reduced the maximum decibels I can set, as I am now at 77% and it is still a bit low. Which is obviouslymuch less of an issue. On the other hand, fixing this would make sure that I don’t eventually shatter my eardrums if the parameters return to normal.