Voice lines are playing back very quiet with lots of echo

[MrH]

Whenever any character speaks it's like they're in a cave and the voice line plays back very quiet, even on max volume. It only seems to be an issue when you interact with them, if they speak to you as you run past their voices are fine.

Now where it gets weird, I recorded a video with Shadowplay and the voices play back perfectly in the video, so they're not working in-game, but Shadowplay is somehow able to record them properly? I am so confused.

[MrH]

This issue was caused by my Creative X3 soundcard, apparently, if you have it set to direct sound the voice lines are not played back correctly. No other game has ever had this issue. Just posting in case someone else runs into this problem.

[沒開外掛的桜島 麻衣(青]

Same issue with you. The voice is strange. But I found that when I use 3.5 mm plug (direct connect to computer internal sound card) not a USB plug(headset sound card), or speaker. This issue will be fixed.

PS: My headset is HyperX Cloud Stinger S

[沒開外掛的桜島 麻衣(青]

However, if I use USB to connect, the voices playback still like they're in a cave

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by 桜島 麻衣:

Same issue with you. The voice is strange. But I found that when I use 3.5 mm plug (direct connect to computer internal sound card) not a USB plug(headset sound card), or speaker. This issue will be fixed.

PS: My headset is HyperX Cloud Stinger S

Originally posted by MrH:

This issue was caused by my Creative X3 soundcard, apparently, if you have it set to direct sound the voice lines are not played back correctly. No other game has ever had this issue. Just posting in case someone else runs into this problem.

Those are very good hints. Are you using multiple soundcards as one - as in: did you also kept the inbuilt-mainboard-one on too?

[沒開外掛的桜島 麻衣(青]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by 桜島 麻衣:

Same issue with you. The voice is strange. But I found that when I use 3.5 mm plug (direct connect to computer internal sound card) not a USB plug(headset sound card), or speaker. This issue will be fixed.

PS: My headset is HyperX Cloud Stinger S

Originally posted by MrH:

This issue was caused by my Creative X3 soundcard, apparently, if you have it set to direct sound the voice lines are not played back correctly. No other game has ever had this issue. Just posting in case someone else runs into this problem.

Those are very good hints. Are you using multiple soundcards as one - as in: did you also kept the inbuilt-mainboard-one on too?

I am using an MSI Pro Z690-A motherboard with WIN11 system. I have two speaker devices one is HyperX Cloud Stinger 7.1 (It use USB to connect should be an independent sound card) and another one is a monitor speaker (It connect with a graphic card)

My inbuilt-motherboard sound card should be disabled because most of the time I will use the headset.


The echo voice issues are fixed when I use a monitor speaker or 3.5mm(inboard soundcard)

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by 桜島 麻衣:

My inbuilt-motherboard sound card should be disabled because most of the time I will use the headset.

In some very rare cases the Windows device manager does not know that, unless you turned it off via the mainboard bios settings.

[沒開外掛的桜島 麻衣(青]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by 桜島 麻衣:

My inbuilt-motherboard sound card should be disabled because most of the time I will use the headset.

In some very rare cases the Windows device manager does not know that, unless you turned it off via the mainboard bios settings.

I will try to turn it off later

Here is a reference of voice playing with much echo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lE4GPVDMqw

[沒開外掛的桜島 麻衣(青]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by 桜島 麻衣:

My inbuilt-motherboard sound card should be disabled because most of the time I will use the headset.

In some very rare cases the Windows device manager does not know that, unless you turned it off via the mainboard bios settings.

Updated: Issues still exist when the onboard sound card is disabled via BIOS. And currently my fix way is not to use the USB sound card as output.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by 桜島 麻衣:

Originally posted by アンジェル:

In some very rare cases the Windows device manager does not know that, unless you turned it off via the mainboard bios settings.

I will try to turn it off later

Here is a reference of voice playing with much echo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lE4GPVDMqw

Thank you very much for sharing that video. That will give the developers lots of insight into the problem.

From my point of view it might be helpful to check from bottom to top the sound settings from the main menu (before loading a save game).

The kind of issue reminds me a lot of some "surround" setting either by the game, display or the soundcard going wrong.

[MrH]

Originally posted by 桜島 麻衣:

Originally posted by アンジェル:

In some very rare cases the Windows device manager does not know that, unless you turned it off via the mainboard bios settings.

I will try to turn it off later

Here is a reference of voice playing with much echo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lE4GPVDMqw

I fixed it by going into: Sounds, Playback, Configure and switching the speaker configuration to Stereo, for some reason it had been set to 7.1 which was causing the issue.

https://imgur.com/tR4geoZ

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by MrH:

Originally posted by 桜島 麻衣:

I will try to turn it off later

Here is a reference of voice playing with much echo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lE4GPVDMqw

I fixed it by going into: Sounds, Playback, Configure and switching the speaker configuration to Stereo, for some reason it had been set to 7.1 which was causing the issue.

https://imgur.com/tR4geoZ

That confirms my experience. I am happy it worked out for you and you got it fixed that way!