At some point, my computer stopped doing it automatically. The key issue is that before, I didn't have to affect the sound format at all to get things to play, they just Additionally, I have had no trouble with Windows Media Player, barring file formats it isn't designed to play back.

Streaming sound/video on Firefox produces no issues, with videos on Youtube playing just fine right up until I save them to my computer, at which point they are at What is interesting to note are the programs that aren't affected by this issue. Then when attempting to load Fallout: New Vegas it played the intro cinematic for less than a second, then CTD and kept doing that until I changed the sound format back to 48 kHz. A fix for this I got off of another site was to manually change the sound format to 44.1 kHz, but When trying to load Skyrim, the Bethesda logo would show, but no sound would play, then the program would CTD. The issue is not with any one program, however. What sound format any given file is, creating playlists is trial-and-error at best. The trouble here is that since there is no clear indicator

48 kHz while 44.1 kHz is selected) the video will freeze, VLC will crash, and then my computer will be unresponsive for anywhere from a few seconds to a minute. The most noticeable behavior is with VLC if I have a video file with a different sound format than A while ago, my computer started behaving oddly when it came to sound formats. Please bear with me because I'm not terribly sure how to put this into words.

Skyrim no bethesda intro