Muted gunshots?

[Cruddy]

My gunshots sound about as quiet as a mouse, all other audio seems fine, nothing I change in the settings fixes it.

[MeltingPotOfFriendship]

Originally posted by Cruddy horse:

My gunshots sound about as quiet as a mouse, all other audio seems fine, nothing I change in the settings fixes it.

Guns sound fine to me. Either your headset/audio drivers are fussing with the game, or if you are using a TV, it's speakers might be too low.

[randir14]

They sound fine to me. In fact they sound awesome. They echo when firing outdoors and reverb when firing inside buildings.

[Subzero]

if hit esc it should fix it atleast thats what im told

[Cruddy]

Originally posted by Andy Wankski:

Originally posted by Cruddy horse:

My gunshots sound about as quiet as a mouse, all other audio seems fine, nothing I change in the settings fixes it.

Guns sound fine to me. Either your headset/audio drivers are fussing with the game, or if you are using a TV, it's speakers might be too low.

All my drivers are up to date, not using a TV. Not sure how to go about fixing this.

Originally posted by Subzero:

if hit esc it should fix it atleast thats what im told

Nope

[Joelony]

Originally posted by Cruddy horse:

My gunshots sound about as quiet as a mouse, all other audio seems fine, nothing I change in the settings fixes it.

This issue is listed as a launch bug. Rock, Paper, Shotgun has the full list and the devs are working to get a patch out. Also, why do people respond with "mine works!" It serves no benefit to the issue. A temporary solution that worked for me was to pause the game for a moment, like someone suggested with ESC. My gunshots and rain sounds were missing after a save reload, so I looked it up and found this comment thread. In that time, the sounds came back while I had it paused. This was on Xbox btw, so the bug is cross-platform.

[Cruddy]

Originally posted by Joelony:

Originally posted by Cruddy horse:

My gunshots sound about as quiet as a mouse, all other audio seems fine, nothing I change in the settings fixes it.

This issue is listed as a launch bug. Rock, Paper, Shotgun has the full list and the devs are working to get a patch out. Also, why do people respond with "mine works!" It serves no benefit to the issue. A temporary solution that worked for me was to pause the game for a moment, like someone suggested with ESC. My gunshots and rain sounds were missing after a save reload, so I looked it up and found this comment thread. In that time, the sounds came back while I had it paused. This was on Xbox btw, so the bug is cross-platform.

Thank you thank you thank you, I greatly appreciate your response, I don't think that fix works for me as I left it on pause for awhile yesterday and it did nothing, but I am also on the Xbox PC App.

[Gort]

I have the same problem too

[Aldourien]

This happened to me a few times. Saving and loading fixes this.

[Cruddy]

Originally posted by Aldourien:

This happened to me a few times. Saving and loading fixes this.

Nope, been a constant problem since Day 1.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Either set the Audio to Narrow or Full. If your Audio is something like Realtek, your max DB volume is not as high or clear as say Creative/SoundBlaster; so you might want to put the Audio in-game to Narrow to help equalize low vs high volume sounds.

It also helps to lower the Music volume to around 60-80% as well, while leaving the rest on 100%

Make sure WinOS Audio Settings for your Playback Device is set to 16bit/44Khz or 24bit/48Khz... nothing else.

And yes if you experience audio issues, try going and saving your game (F5 = QuickSave / F9 = QuickLoad most recent quick save); and once you save and the "Saving" icon goes away (give it about 3-5 secs)... then press ESC and Exit to Main Menu. Once there, reload the most recent saved game.

I would strongly suggest against saving inside Military / Bandit bases due to how the current NPC spawning system works (or lack there of; since it's odd and random right now; GSC is working hard on this as we speak)... if needed, move outside such an area and where no threats of enemy are near; and then save.

If you have any of these enable in Windows Audio, disable them.
> Audio Equalization
> Spatial Audio (like Windows Sonic Audio for Headphones)
> Dolby Audio enhancements

[prawns]

Remove silencer

[Oxide]

Reloading an old save worked for me.

[Oxide]

So I switched headphones and that seems to be working. My last pair was garbage I bought for $15 but I switched to my old razer headphones and it seems to be working again.

[WhiteSnake76]

Check your Sound properties and Settings in Windows, maybe its set to the wrong speaker setup.

[LakeShore LT]

Time to time i have sound problem with electric anomalies. When You throw bolt and trigger anomaly there is no sound or it sounds very quietly.