Sound stops randomly and popping after upgrading to Windows 8.1
My game worked fine when I had windows 7, slight performance issues aside. I upgraded to windows 8.1, my performance is now smooth, but after playing for a few minutes the sound stops working. Sometimes I can only play for 30 seconds before the sound cuts out, but sometimes I can play for 20 minutes before it happens. I usually try to keep playing until I get to a save point before I restart the game, but when I keep playing with no sound at random times the there is annoying loud popping. The popping usually goes away after I pause the game, but it starts back up again after another minute or so usually. If I exit out of the game completely back to Wndows and run the game again, the sound comes back... That is until it drops back out again after a few minutes.
If I switch to window mode and open the windows volume mixer I still get sound with everything else like windows system sounds, but even when sounds should be playing from the game, the mixer shows no activity coming from the game.. I've played other games, and have had no sound problems whatsoever from any other game
The game is currently updated to 1.0.9. My GPU is an MSI GTX 970 with the latest Nvidia drivers. My CPU is an AMD FX-8350, and I have a Gigabyte GA-970A-D3 Mobo with the latest bios and drivers. I had both my GPU and CPU overclocked, but since reverted them both to stock settings. I have all the Windows 8.1 updates as well.
My GPU hooks up to my Samsung LCD with HDM, but I've also tried headphones and external speakers, but the sound issue happens regardless of output device. It happens running from the GPU's HDMI source, but it happens with my mobo's built in sound output as well.
I've seen other sound issues from people by using google, but I've yet to come across the same exact issue I'm having. I've done all of the things I can find on the net about sound issues. I made sure sound output was set to stereo with only left and right speakers checked in configuration. I set the sample rate to 16-bit 44100 hz and tested out all the other same rates as well with no success. I also saw where people fixed their sound issues by running dx11.2 setup from downloading dxwepsetup from Microsoft, but it didn't help me either.. I reinstalled the game, my video drivers, restored my computer to an earlier point to remove the Windows 8.1 updates, then reinstalled the updates after that did nothing. Since the game never gave me this problem with Windows 7, I tried to run in Windows 7 compatibility mode, but nothing seems to work. I have done everything I can think of, but after a lot of lost hours I'm at the point of nearly giving up. I really like this game, but I'm tired of the sound going out and having to constantly restart the game.
If anyone has a possible solution, I would really appreciate it. Thanks