Overcompressed Audio.

[BingusDingus]

Don't know how, but some audio seems way lower quality than before. Just got to Laezel and her audio is has a static sound to it that i don't remember it having during early access. But on the other hand the other audio sounds fine.

EDIT: just got to Shadowheart and hers is even worse, sounds like she's talking from the other side of a door.

[Tendeep]

Strange thing, at least from what I could tell, music and voice samples during character creation seem fine, but the moment the game launches into the first cut scene, then the actual game ambient is loud as hell, my character is super quiet, and combat, spells, etc is super quiet. Odd thing, my character made a random voice line "one step forward" is what he said, that was crazy loud and center channel. His voice lines when I click on things in the world are so quiet I can not hear them. The narrator is super loud, too, center channel, just fine. Other characters, super quiet again. Something is just broken.

[Blais]

Agree. Early access voice was perfect to hear. Release version very quiet. I hope they know about it and fix the problem

[Shady Harbinger]

I was wondering what if I use Dolby Atmos for home theater on Windows 10 (It is free only the headphone version costs a few bucks). Though the dialog level is still low the overall surround audio quality is much better.

[Professor Hojo]

some lines of dialogue sound like they were recorded in a tin can, i hope its just not terrible recordings... its really bad at times and quite egregious.

Quite strange for a game that is supposed to be about immersion... my only fear is that the recordings are completely borked in the studio and there nothing that can be done.

Assasins creed Valhalla had compressed audio at 24khz and i dont think its ever been fixed i hope this is not the issue with BG3 what a complete waste otherwise and they should be slammed for this

[garry]

Sounds totally fine on all my machines. Try submitting a ticket to Larian's support/forum with your system info and audio system configurations.

Generally, the game isn't designed for spatial audio like Windows Sonic and Dolby Atmos, so if you have something like that enabled try disabling it and see if that resolves your issue. If not, contact support.

[Kryo]

same. "overcompressed" af. sometimes it's fine. sometimes it sounds tinny/low quality.

[Kryo]

Hope they fix this soon. Tinny voices make this unplayable (for me)

[Jimmy James]

Publicado originalmente por garry:

Sounds totally fine on all my machines. Try submitting a ticket to Larian's support/forum with your system info and audio system configurations.

Generally, the game isn't designed for spatial audio like Windows Sonic and Dolby Atmos, so if you have something like that enabled try disabling it and see if that resolves your issue. If not, contact support.

I'm getting it with no spatial audio just through a decent amp/dac and set of headphones.

Most of the game sounds fine - the music, many voices are also fine - but when you first meet Lae'Zel in the nautiloid it doesn't sound tinny, like a low quality mp3?

[Ronux]

Glad I'm not the only one. The voice lines sound extremely compressed and poorly balanced between different dialogues.

[TyRich]

ngl good to see many people with this problem. Means it's more likely to get fixed. was worried it was just me/my hardware

[C-LOS N Y C]

disabling spatial audio fixed it...thank god ffs.

[I'm Alpharius and this is a lie]

i don't have audio after the larian studio logo, it looks like there is a big bug arround audio files from the game, this was on direct x11, the game works fine on vulcan but crash after 10 minuts ....

[caduceus_hermes]

I turned down everything else and maxed the voices. Echoey too.

[Djizu]

Same problem also with Windows Sonic disabled. Edifier S880DB connected via usb

[Zumy]

Publicado originalmente por garry:

Sounds totally fine on all my machines. Try submitting a ticket to Larian's support/forum with your system info and audio system configurations.

Generally, the game isn't designed for spatial audio like Windows Sonic and Dolby Atmos, so if you have something like that enabled try disabling it and see if that resolves your issue. If not, contact support.

Sadly the issue does exist, it seems you just havn't noticed the drop in audio quality. You can look up videos of new playthroughs and compare the new audio to the old early access audio, in regards to voices there is a noticable dip in quality and everything sounds either over compressed or badly recorded as well as lower overall volume. I'm assuming this is a bug that will be fixed and not the intended design as it is a jarring difference if you were playing early access just before release.

To those who are experiencing echo / other more extreme audio issues, that is a seperate issue and most likely your windows spatial audio settings. The issue op is talking about is not the same issue and is a game specific bug.