Sound Fix?

[BeeBop Huckleberry]

Some of the sounds are out of whack. The voices and footsteps can be heard even when no NPC's are close, and car engines sound like a jet engine if the jet was inside your ear.

I found several threads covering some of the issues but none of the suggestions worked. The silent patch didn't changes sounds either.

Help?

EDIT July 31st, 2021: In my case, the problem was with Nahimic. This may not be the issue for all of you, but for me, removing Nahimic solved the sound issue. Also, a while back I found this site that has the Silent patch and other fixes for Bully. This is the best 'all in one' patch I could find; https://www.definitive-edition-project.com/files

[OZotacs]

same problem here

[MikiFanta]

I have the same problem, nothing to do...

[TailzFuzion]

make sure you don't have surround mode on, if so change it back to stereo and it'll be good

[BeeBop Huckleberry]

Originally posted by Tiggzy:

make sure you don't have surround mode on, if so change it back to stereo and it'll be good

Yeah no. Thanks for trying but you're wrong. Edit: To be fair maybe that worked for some people but for many others it didn't. I spent hours looking at forums threads and the stereo fix was never a consistent fix. /end edit.

I dug deep enough to find out that Rockstar themselves acknowledged the bugs and, although they were appalled, they said that's the way the game will remain. The last patch was patch 1.2 and there will not be another patch. Sound will always suck.

[Cathartic]

Originally posted by BeeBop Huckleberry:

Originally posted by Tiggzy:

make sure you don't have surround mode on, if so change it back to stereo and it'll be good

Yeah no. Thanks for trying but you're wrong. Edit: To be fair maybe that worked for some people but for many others it didn't. I spent hours looking at forums threads and the stereo fix was never a consistent fix. /end edit.

I dug deep enough to find out that Rockstar themselves acknowledged the bugs and, although they were appalled, they said that's the way the game will remain. The last patch was patch 1.2 and there will not be another patch. Sound will always suck.

Nobody is wrong, just because you couldn't figure it out doesn't mean it doesn't work, surround is the issue if you simply don't use your headset/surround and have the audio come out of the tv or speakers, problem solved, there's other ways to configure your audio settings, simply turning surround off in game won't fix the issue for everyone like you said, but due to different audio settings for each person, I have a razer kraken pro so I have to turn off 7.1 surround in audio settings if I still want to use my headset.

[B.O.M]

I found a temporary fix, Delete Realtek hd audio driver if you have it, It fixes the problem, I don't exactly know how or why, But it works. You can always re install it back afterwards, Hope this helps.

[N0DD13]

The best thing for a sound fix is to turn the game volume down in your volume mixer in the desktop taskbar. It won't turn down everything else and whenever I open it back up the volume mixer remembers what sound level I had it set to when I re-open it

[BeeBop Huckleberry]

Originally posted by Alebeard:

Originally posted by BeeBop Huckleberry:

Yeah no. Thanks for trying but you're wrong. Edit: To be fair maybe that worked for some people but for many others it didn't. I spent hours looking at forums threads and the stereo fix was never a consistent fix. /end edit.

I dug deep enough to find out that Rockstar themselves acknowledged the bugs and, although they were appalled, they said that's the way the game will remain. The last patch was patch 1.2 and there will not be another patch. Sound will always suck.

Nobody is wrong, just because you couldn't figure it out doesn't mean it doesn't work, surround is the issue if you simply don't use your headset/surround and have the audio come out of the tv or speakers, problem solved, there's other ways to configure your audio settings, simply turning surround off in game won't fix the issue for everyone like you said, but due to different audio settings for each person, I have a razer kraken pro so I have to turn off 7.1 surround in audio settings if I still want to use my headset.

It's been a long time. I came back to tell you that... YES! YOU WERE WRONG. Was never the stereo issue. I even said that to the other guy, but you insisted it's a stereo/surround issue. I'm very happy I didn't waste my time listening to you.

The actual problem was a sound effects bug caused by Nahimic.

Anyways... you were wrong. So, thanks for the rude post.

[Moose]

Open your sound driver manager and change to Stereo, mine was on Quadrophonic. Chaning it to stereo fixed everything about the audio.

[Long 'n Play]

Download the "SilentPatchBully.zip" file from this link: https://github.com/CookiePLMonster/SilentPatchBully/releases

Unzip into the game's root folder. This patch fixes audio issue on Realtek drives, crash issues, other types of issues and also allows playing at 60FPS.

To play at 60 FPS, open the file "SilentPatchBully.ini" after unzipping the patch in the game's root folder, and change the line:

FPSLimit = 30

for:

FPSLimit = 0

In the "Snowball" mission, change it to 30 FPS again, or it will cause a bug in the mission, once completed just go back to 60 FPS.

[Wizard]

Originally posted by Long 'n Play:

Download the "SilentPatchBully.zip" file from this link: https://github.com/CookiePLMonster/SilentPatchBully/releases

Unzip into the game's root folder. This patch fixes audio issue on Realtek drives, crash issues, other types of issues and also allows playing at 60FPS.

To play at 60 FPS, open the file "SilentPatchBully.ini" after unzipping the patch in the game's root folder, and change the line:

FPSLimit = 30

for:

FPSLimit = 0

In the "Snowball" mission, change it to 30 FPS again, or it will cause a bug in the mission, once completed just go back to 60 FPS.

Sound is still really wonky. I hear EVERYONE talking all the time.

[Wizard]

OK FELLAS THIS SEEMS TO HAVE FIXED IT FOR ME:

I have a G533 headset that apparently is on 7.1 surround 24/7.
So I dusted off the ole studio headphones & plugged them in the mainboard audio out. I then waited a bit for the thing to work (Thanks Bill Gates.) & Then when it worked in windows I restarted the game & set the audio to STEREO. (Options / Audio / Audio Output)

Now insanity mode is off apparently and when I approach people I hear them better, further distanced - I hear them less.

Note I also use the silentpatchbully but that one didn't fixed it for me but maybe the combination works. ALSO CHECK IF YOUR HEADPOHENS ARENT IN 7.1 OR SOME ♥♥♥♥

[BeeBop Huckleberry]

I started this thread over two years ago, but since people are still commenting I figured I would post this link. This link has a Bully patch that includes the silent patch and other fixes. Really nice 'all in one' patch.

https://www.definitive-edition-project.com/files

[Long 'n Play]

Originally posted by Wizard Hermann~:

Originally posted by Long 'n Play:

Download the "SilentPatchBully.zip" file from this link: https://github.com/CookiePLMonster/SilentPatchBully/releases

Unzip into the game's root folder. This patch fixes audio issue on Realtek drives, crash issues, other types of issues and also allows playing at 60FPS.

To play at 60 FPS, open the file "SilentPatchBully.ini" after unzipping the patch in the game's root folder, and change the line:

FPSLimit = 30

for:

FPSLimit = 0

In the "Snowball" mission, change it to 30 FPS again, or it will cause a bug in the mission, once completed just go back to 60 FPS.

Sound is still really wonky. I hear EVERYONE talking all the time.

if your game has the surround option selected, it switches to stereo.

[Toni177]

Originally posted by TailzAMango:

make sure you don't have surround mode on, if so change it back to stereo and it'll be good

Muito obrigado, resolveu meu problema