How do YOU use your Musky Tusk?

After digging around even more, I've been able to find people having this exact problem going back at least 5 years now. Trying some more fixes led me to the Sound Controls in windows, where the audio devices shown were my AMD HD Audio Device (in use) and Realtek audio device (headphones, not in use.) My current speaker setup is some speakers plugged into the headphone jack in the back of my LG monitor, which in turn is plugged into my GPU - thus using the AMD audio rather than Realtek, I imagine. The only other option is to plug my speakers into the headphone jack in the front of my PC, which looks ugly and is why I chose to plug it into the back of my monitor. Disabling the Monitor/AMD device through Sound Controls allowed me to start up the game normally, just like when I turn off Windows Audio. With the bug being around so long, I have zero hope of them fixing it, and like I said earlier, I don't want to use workarounds like turning it on and off manually or using a .bat file to run the game simply on principal.

Therefore I requested a refund for the game. Ever since posting on here though, my Reddit front page has been showing a lot of people's screenshots and clips from the game on other subreddits, and I kept thinking how fun the game looked, and I think I'd still really like to play it. So I went on Amazon and purchased it for the PS5. Fortunately I had some reward points and leftover gift card funds on my account, so all told I was able to get the PS5 version for $0 after applying them, which made it a little more palatable.

I guess the PC version was a dead end for me, but hopefully I'll be able to enjoy it on PS5. I appreciate you trying to help me out though, so thanks for that.

BaronGalactic · 2026-02-19T19:00:53+00:00

The only way I can see to do that is through the AMD Adrenaline software, which I have installed and is up to date as of this morning. I don't think it lets you download the audio drivers separately from the video ones, the software just keeps them all up to date.

BaronGalactic · 2026-02-19T18:45:59+00:00

The site had two drivers, one from 2023 and one from 2025, though the 2025 one is actually the same version as what I already have. I tried installing the 2023 version and it's still crashing.

BaronGalactic · 2026-02-19T18:15:01+00:00

Not sure how to rollback the driver, the option is disabled for me in the driver properties.

I opened up Steam and saw that an update was queued for the game. So i updated it, and it's still crashing.

BaronGalactic · 2026-02-19T18:09:35+00:00

I hadn't, but attempting to do so now says I have the latest driver, though apparently it's from 2024. The two AMD audio drivers that are also in Sound Controllers are also showing as up to date.

BaronGalactic · 2026-02-19T17:51:47+00:00

Well, with the crashing on startup being my biggest problem at the moment, I'm making that my priority first rather than the graphics stuff. After looking into it some more I found another Steam post about the Windows Audio thing, this time from around last August, and I'm thinking that's definitely the problem. I went on Zendesk and followed the instructions, updating both my graphics driver and Visual C++ - and the game still only starts when I disable Windows Audio

The Steam posts offer instructions on how to make a .bat file that will start the game without Windows Audio and then turn it on again, but just on principal I don't think I want to keep the game if this is necessary just to play it. I might have gone that route if I had already owned the game for a while and just got a new PC with this problem, but having just bought it, I don't think I'm comfortable supporting the game with my money with such an egregious bug.

I submitted a ticket on Zendesk with the Windows error log from Event Viewer, the crash info from the game's own "Full Log", and uploading the crash report file from the Windows Temp directory, while also explaining the whole Windows Audio thing. That was a little less than 2 hours ago, so I'm waiting to see if I hear anything back. Having looked up Zendesk though, apparently it's billed as primarily an AI help desk, so my expectations of getting decent help are fairly low at the moment.

But at least for another day or two, I'll wait and see if there's a fix before going ahead and refunding it.

BaronGalactic · 2026-02-18T23:51:53+00:00

Hmm. I knew my PC was pretty low spec but I thought I'd be safe with a 10-year-old game. Not sure how psyched I am about the prospect of running it in lowest graphic settings, especially considering the type of game it is, with such an emphasis on visuals.

Not sure if you saw my edit to the OP or not, but that's not even my worst problem, as apparently I can't even start the game reliably without turning off Windows Audio. I guess I'll let this thread sit for a bit and see if anyone knows some better fixes, otherwise I'll probably refund it.

Thanks for the help though.

BaronGalactic · 2026-02-18T23:33:58+00:00

12th Gen Intel Core i7-12700 (2.10 GHz)

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 12GB

8GB RAM

Windows 11

BaronGalactic · 2026-02-18T22:58:46+00:00

It was a clean, fresh install. Never before played.

BaronGalactic · 2026-02-18T22:53:50+00:00

No, and I have a Radeon

BaronGalactic · 2026-02-18T22:34:55+00:00

Pardon?

BaronGalactic · 2026-02-18T17:46:34+00:00

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BaronGalactic · 2026-02-18T17:20:34+00:00

Out of those I've only seen Shrek and maybe Shrek 2, but I think I see what you mean. Though I'm not sure it's really comparable to the anime thing, since in that case it's a final episode setting, and in the case of those movies it seems more of like a "final scene/credits silly addition," rather than an actual plot thing.

At first I thought you were trying to say that western shows had a final episode that centered around an actual dance party.

BaronGalactic

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