I think "Allow Background Audio" is not working

[Ivan3z]

I opened a thread on the forum because the audio doesn’t seem to work in a specific situation.

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I need help to fix an audio problem (UserWidget)

I have a problem in my project. I have reproduced the problem in a new blank project. These are the project files: UISoundProblem.zip (13.2 MB) The problem is a sound can not be played in a UI (more or less) It does works when the player is shooting itself (see this video). When shooting to other player. The event work, the amimation work, but the sound does not work. I don’t want to replicate the audio. I just want the player to be the only one that can hear it when he get any damage. H…

A user gave me a solution:

I need help to fix an audio problem (UserWidget)

Can you try to set “AllowBackgroundAudio” to true in the editor settings? It is disabled by default - and I think that is why you are not hearing any sound (because the second PIE window has no user focus and thus is in the background) [image] Let me know if this fixes it

ENABLE: “Level Editor/Miscellaneous/Allow Background Audio”

But that option doesn’t seem to work (See Video Attached Here).

I need help to fix an audio problem (UserWidget)

Hi @Featuriing Unfortunately that didn’t solve the problem. Thank you very much for your help. Very appreciated

I think the user is right, and seem that option doesn’t work like he says it should.
In any case i cannot test the audio correctly.

If it is a bug, please fix it.

And if you know a console command to enable this option, please let me know.
It will be useful for me while the bug is fixing.

Thank you so much!!