Windows 11 fixes?

[♥♥♥♥ Eggscellent]

Hey, I'm a pretty regular Bully player but I notice only I seem to have persistent audio issues while everyone else seems to have things going perfectly fine for them. I hear a strange loud buzzing noise when crossing certain corners of the school campus like right towards the library facing away from the dorms, and all NPC audio seems to play out of Jimmy and at exclusively full volume resulting in overlapping, spammy dialogue and loud horse/high-heel -esque footstep noises. I've seen a lot of the fixes around the web and tried everything on the PC Gaming Wiki entry for Bully as well as a majority of those on other sites including here. Is there something I'm missing, perhaps? I'm on Windows 11 if it matters (I believe it does as the community took a while just to fix the game on Windows 10). Thanks!

[Cathartic]

You have to set your playback device from 7.1 to Stereo via sound settings.

[♥♥♥♥ Eggscellent]

Originally posted by Cathartic:

You have to set your playback device from 7.1 to Stereo via sound settings.

Thanks for the response, but I resorted to downgrading to Windows 10 ultimately. Fixed basically everything and now my only issue is not being able to view the intro cutscene (although I can still hear it) which isn't as huge an issue and something most others seem to have to deal with anyway, hah.

Lesson learned. Don't use Windows 11.

[Cathartic]

Originally posted by Beret Pie:

Originally posted by Cathartic:

You have to set your playback device from 7.1 to Stereo via sound settings.

Thanks for the response, but I resorted to downgrading to Windows 10 ultimately. Fixed basically everything and now my only issue is not being able to view the intro cutscene (although I can still hear it) which isn't as huge an issue and something most others seem to have to deal with anyway, hah.

Lesson learned. Don't use Windows 11.

No worries, if you get any more issues this guide to install silent's patch will fix a load of issues the game still has and even unlock 60 fps, https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1323609222,

[♥♥♥♥ Eggscellent]

Thanks again! I had to go back and get Silent too like ya said cause this other mod I had didn't fix as much as it said it did, unfortunately.

[jamalvvve]

Thank you guys, specially @Silent, bro this fixed my FPS and the game is legit smooth now, crash-free, amazing effort <3

[bradhill0462]

I had it working and it crashed I tried to change compatibility settings now it won't even launch windows 11 please help