Thrustmaster TFRP drivers causing "No active speakers found, sounds are disable"

[xTITANx]

Installed driver for my newly purchased Thrustmaster TFRP rudders and now I get the "No active speakers found, cannot load sounds" when I to the MA arena.  Saw  Vraciu was having issues last year, used one of his work arounds by playing YouTube videos in a minimized browser and it actually worked for a bit.  got booted and now that doesnt even work.  All drivers are up to date and so is my system...

any ideas?

TITAN

[Animl-AW]

Try changing your output default audio device. The TM may have taken it over. Try switching it back to your speakers.

[The Fugitive]

Windows may have dumped it on the same address as your sound. Id uninstall your sound driver or the thrustmaster stuff and reinstall them to see if that clears it up.

[xTITANx]

Try changing your output default audio device. The TM may have taken it over. Try switching it back to your speakers.

Thanks Animl.  I toggled the settings, logged out, logged back in and it worked once.  When I logged out and back in, same error. 

[xTITANx]

Windows may have dumped it on the same address as your sound. Id uninstall your sound driver or the thrustmaster stuff and reinstall them to see if that clears it up.

Thanks Fugi... I uninstalled all the sound drivers and the TM, then reinstalled the sound drives.  I was ok for a bit, now I get the error again. Reinstalled the game last night, still get the errors.  I'm going to roll my system back to right before I installed the TM drivers and see if that at allows me to run the game properly. 

Pretty frustrating.  I was excited to finally get some rudder pedals after 20+ yrs of playing. little nervous about trying to reinstall the TM drivers.

TITAN

[Animl-AW]

Thanks Fugi... I uninstalled all the sound drivers and the TM, then reinstalled the sound drives.  I was ok for a bit, now I get the error again. Reinstalled the game last night, still get the errors.  I'm going to roll my system back to right before I installed the TM drivers and see if that at allows me to run the game properly. 

Pretty frustrating.  I was excited to finally get some rudder pedals after 20+ yrs of playing. little nervous about trying to reinstall the TM drivers.

TITAN

Just fyi, I read on other forums not AH related, others had similar problems with TM drivers. I don’t know enough about them myself. One had s fix I stated above, but may not be same exact issue.

[The Fugitive]

You may not need the drivers for the pedals unless you need to run some sort of macro or something. Windows should see the pedals as a controller. As long as it does, AH will too.

I know my CHproducts pedals "have" the CH manager software, but I dont install it. Windows sees the pedals and all works fine.

[xTITANx]

Just fyi, I read on other forums not AH related, others had similar problems with TM drivers. I don’t know enough about them myself. One had s fix I stated above, but may not be same exact issue.

I did the same, didn't really see anything that helped.  Ill just roll back and connect without the drivers.  Have a great Christmas!

[xTITANx]

You may not need the drivers for the pedals unless you need to run some sort of macro or something. Windows should see the pedals as a controller. As long as it does, AH will too.

I know my CHproducts pedals "have" the CH manager software, but I dont install it. Windows sees the pedals and all works fine.

Thanks Fugitive... I'll try to connect them without the drivers if I can get the game working again. have a great christmas!

[xTITANx]

I finally got the game up and running again after 2 rollbacks and 3 game reloads.  I deleted and reloaded all my sounds devices, so they are fresh.  Ran a registery and disk clean-up before reloading the game.

I had to select my gaming speakers instead of the Alienware headsets before I log in, otherwise I receive the "no active speakers found" error.  Once I'm in, I can toggle the to my headsets and it works.   It will suffice for now.  I try hooking up the pedals without the TM software this weekend.  3 days without AH has my hands shaking a bit