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No sound after pressing the 'Voice Control' button

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When I press the 'Voice Control' button to open the radio communication list, the sound from the game is muted. It only comes back after I either select one of the communication options or the menu times out and closes.

I have reinstalled the audio drivers to no avail.

Does anyone else have this issue and maybe is there a known fix?

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19 hours ago, Nicolai953 said:

When I press the 'Voice Control' button to open the radio communication list, the sound from the game is muted. It only comes back after I either select one of the communication options or the menu times out and closes.

I have reinstalled the audio drivers to no avail.

Does anyone else have this issue and maybe is there a known fix?

Yes, I have the issue. I'm not even going to try troubleshoot it. It's broken and has happened since voice control was introduced.

Codemasters will deny it but they need to release the game without Denuvo protection. For a fact they won't, because after years of shoddy product I would most certainly now play a cracked version until I was sure it was worth any more money. I genuinely feel quite strongly about piracy but I would have zero qualms pirating this product going forward. The games are buggy from the get go, troubleshooting is difficult as patches introduce new issues, games stop working properly if the decryption token is unchanged for a long period, performance issues can be directly traced back to the copy protection.

It's honestly beyond funny. 

If anyone from the company reads this, I challenge you to remove the protection from F1 2016 or F1 2017 and commit to writing a final patch for any issues remaining. I guarantee the game will sell if it works, even at this stage. 

Copy protection software does not prevent piracy. Anyone who pirates a game is not going to buy it anyway. The whole premise of copy protection is based on an outdated model whereby cracked games were mass-produced on recordable media and sold openly, e.g. car boot sales. Wake up! The games are too big to do this any more. Therefore, no-one profits illegally from cracked games in quite the manner they did before. It shifts the emphasis onto service providers and online crime enforcement as with illegal streaming sites (movies, music, etc.)

You can see the racing genre is quite different, releases get a lot of community support with mods and the like and a quite fanatical fanbase. Rather than restricting them with tamper protection, this should be allowed in all states of the game except online (I don't have a suggestion for the way to do this as I am not a programmer).

But if the copy protection hurts only the genuine customer (the current game is cracked), then it's quite bizarre.

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