No sound in VR every other launch

[TAW_Impalor]

My DCS and/or Oculus Home randomly decide whether to play sound or not. Sometimes, after fresh PC boot, I will have sound in the Rift headset as expected. Sometimes I must relaunch DCS to fix the problem. Same was happening in 1.5. No settings choice/clean/repair/update/upgrade could fix it. I have 'Output to built-in device' checked on VR tab and 'output to headphones' chosen in Oculus. Drives me mad having to take off the HMD and relaunch the game every other time!

 

Edit: further investigations revealed that the Rift sound is muted if I put the HMD on after DCS launches. If I manually launch Oculus Home and put the HMD before launching DCS, the sound in headset appears as normal.

Edited July 12, 2018 by impalor