My ISO is 99% dialed in, but I just lost sound in Win 7 games

[Pozidriv]

I'm in the final stages of completing my Win 7 ISO, mostly by tweaking settings, services, etc. This morning in what I thought was going to be my 'final' ISO, I cleaned up a few settings, but for some reason I lost sound in the built-in Windows games. As you can see, the setting is grayed out. It's checked, but there's no sound. I have sound everywhere else, just not in the built-in games. I've created probably 12-15 different ISO's and this is the first time this has happened.

I've attached the last preset I created where I lost the sound. I'm stumped.

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[garlin]

My guess would be to restore WMP, since it has media libraries that some apps depend on.

 

[crypticus]

if you have other presets we can check differs since its the first time it happened

 

[nuhi]

My guess would be to restore WMP, since it has media libraries that some apps depend on.

Nice, confirmed. Found the needed piece and will split it as a separate component in the next version.

Noticed a few weird reports that WMP was needed for sound in games, this might solve it for others as well.
Let me know if anyone has a similar report to isolate the needed universal bits.

Thanks.

 

[Pozidriv]

You were correct, it was WMP. Still confusing though. I use Beyond Compare, a file compare utility, to compare my presets, and I could have sworn I had been removing WMP from the last 3-4 ISO's and never experienced this problem, but I guess it's possible that I removed WMP and didn't play a game afterwards.

Thanks Nuhi, appreciated. I really don't want to see WMP on my system. Never used it and don't want to deal with seeing it pop up in context menus, etc.