No voice during anime cutscenes?

[BiscuitWires]

I downloaded P5R onto my external hard drive. When i started it it was fine but recently in the anime cutscenes there's no voice acting, the background music is there just no voice. I saw someone else have this problem with another game but nothing else including no answer.

Any fix? It's a minor inconvenience but just mildly annoying

[Emerald Lance]

AFAIK the video and audio for cutscenes are stored together within the same file. If the music is playing, the voices should definitely also be playing. I will say that voices are extremely quiet in cutscenes due to bad audio mixing, way way quieter than in normal gameplay; if my volume is even just a little quiet, the voices are practically silent. Could that be what you're experiencing?

[BiscuitWires]

i really doubt it because the music, sound effects and even background character voices are completely audible just not the main characters

i think it's mostly bc i have the game stored on my external harddrive but it would be too much of a pain to put it on my ssd

[Overeagerdragon]

Originally posted by BiscuitWires:

i really doubt it because the music, sound effects and even background character voices are completely audible just not the main characters

i think it's mostly bc i have the game stored on my external harddrive but it would be too much of a pain to put it on my ssd

Do you have a virtual audioboard that could be messing up the audiomixing in the game? I know I have to emulate Stereo on my virtual board for certain, older, games because they can't handle my 7.1 surround setup and it ends up with it mixing the background far louder than the foreground (I also play a lot of ambiance horror games)

[ZenZeal]

Originally posted by BiscuitWires:

I downloaded P5R onto my external hard drive. When i started it it was fine but recently in the anime cutscenes there's no voice acting, the background music is there just no voice. I saw someone else have this problem with another game but nothing else including no answer.

Any fix? It's a minor inconvenience but just mildly annoying

Im having the same issue, i saw someone posted that installing it on internal fixed it

Rn im trying to reinstall it, worst case scenario can depend youtube on that, other sound seems to be working fine yeah

[BiscuitWires]

I just installed it onto my internal (my hard drive was having some I/O errors) and it seemed to work for one cutscene but then after that it just went back to no volume for main characters. Really weird

[velgaduere]

I'm having the exact same issue. Even the non-subtitled voice lines play (for example, background chatter in the casino cutscenes, the train announcement in the cutscene after the first scene with Sae, etc), it's only the lines that receive subtitles that do not.

I've tried every conceivable thing and looked everywhere I can think of for a solution (and even a lot of random things like graphical settings and such), started a new save, verified the integrity of my Steam files, you name it. I'm currently reinstalling the game, but I have very little hope for that working either.

I reached out to Sega support over this and wrote them an even more detailed report than this, so let's hope I hear back soon. Or at all.

[BiscuitWires]

It's really weird. I was playing towards the end of the vanilla game stuff and there are two anime cutscenes there. One of them was fine and the other one just didn't expect for one of the characters. I'm not too sure if this is also an issue because I haven't verified but voice lines don't play when a character is supposed to be outside of the room we're looking at.

[Gage]

Originally posted by velgaduere:

I'm having the exact same issue. Even the non-subtitled voice lines play (for example, background chatter in the casino cutscenes, the train announcement in the cutscene after the first scene with Sae, etc), it's only the lines that receive subtitles that do not.

I've tried every conceivable thing and looked everywhere I can think of for a solution (and even a lot of random things like graphical settings and such), started a new save, verified the integrity of my Steam files, you name it. I'm currently reinstalling the game, but I have very little hope for that working either.

I reached out to Sega support over this and wrote them an even more detailed report than this, so let's hope I hear back soon. Or at all.

hey did you ever get a response from support? my friend is having this issue and i haven't been able to find a solution at all

[jclosed]

At some time in the game I had voices from some characters louder than the other characters. For some reason my Sound Blaster card went from a stereo setup to a surround sound setup (maybe cause by a Windows update?). After re-configuring the setting to stereo again, everything went back to normal.

By the way - I disabled all Nvidia sound drivers and removed them, because they where interfering. I make sure with driver updates I do not re-install (manual setup) those sound drivers again (and I never install that stupid experience stuff).

Maybe worth a look if your sound card is set to surround in stead of stereo?

[Gage]

Originally posted by jclosed:

At some time in the game I had voices from some characters louder than the other characters. For some reason my Sound Blaster card went from a stereo setup to a surround sound setup (maybe cause by a Windows update?). After re-configuring the setting to stereo again, everything went back to normal.

By the way - I disabled all Nvidia sound drivers and removed them, because they where interfering. I make sure with driver updates I do not re-install (manual setup) those sound drivers again (and I never install that stupid experience stuff).

Maybe worth a look if your sound card is set to surround in stead of stereo?

turning off surround sound fixed the issue, tysm

[Radiosity]

Yeah, that'd explain it. Voices are normally sent through the central speaker, so if you don't have a central speaker... well, you ain't going to hear anything :)

[Xel]

I also had this issue and I changed my 7.1 surround sound to stereo, so if anyone gets this issue in the future - this was one fix.