Sound/Volume issues

[Tomkatt]

Does anyone know how to turn up the voice dialogue in this game? The music and sound effects are ridiculously loud but the only vocal dialogue at even a reasonable volume are Max's monologues, and even those are quiet compared to all the sound effects and the drum beat in the music.

Audio settings only have options for music and sfx, is there any way to tweak the voice volume?

Thanks!

[BIGCAKEASSAULTFAN6000]

They were pretty audible for me. Strange you say that about the narrative ones even, since the game lowers down the volume a bit for those if I'm not mistaken.

[Tomkatt]

Anybody have any info on this? Can the dialogue be tweaked separate from the music and sfx?

[Sombat]

It seems to be an inconsistent encoding in their cutscene audio.
I was playing fine through my 5.1 speaker setup, all audio worked fine, cutscene voices were perfect.
When I plugged in my TurtleBeach DSS dolby simulation box so I could try out some 5.1/7.1 through my headphones, all the game audio appeared to be fine also. However, when I came across a cutscene, the character voices were ridiculously quiet, and could be heard faintly reverberating in the background. Max's narration came out loud and clear.
Upon further investigation (with no solution :( ) it seems the cutscenes do not use Dolby Digital compatible audio. The headphone DSS box connects via optical, which can only transmit 2 channel, dolby digital, or DTS. The DSS doesn't work with DTS. So during cutscenes, I'm asuming the game transmits something that isn't dolby digital, my DSS receiver then plays only the channels it receives, with the centre voice channel being left out.
Possible solutions are then:
- Switch to stereo audio.
- Enable DTS in windows sound device properties, supported formats.
- Buy a new soundcard/headphone processor?
- Firebomb Rockstar for being inconsistent.

[cjay]

I experience this too. Now in chapter 7 I can't hear any dialogue at all. BoooooO!

[cjay]

i FOUND a solution on another forum. Install Handbrake, the free video converter. Apparently it has a codec that fixed the voice issue for me in Win 7 on a non-gaming Dell. Good luck!

[basement dweller]

Well, i know it's been a long time, but i found the solution, at least it works for me. When cutscene begins, press "Pause button" then turn on Steam overlay, waint 5 seconds, then turn off overlay. But i must say, that i had low volume only in cutscenes

[Ashyne]

I got the opposite problem.

Voice volume is extremely loud and there are no settings in audio options to adjust it individually, except to lower SFX volume since voice volume is tied to it.

But doing that also lowers non-voiced sound effects such as gunshots, etc. That is stupid to put voice and sound effects volumes into one setting.

The BGM and SFX volume are perfect for me. I just need to lower voice volume only.

[SamboNZ]

Originally posted by Ashyne:

I got the opposite problem.

Voice volume is extremely loud and there are no settings in audio options to adjust it individually, except to lower SFX volume since voice volume is tied to it.

But doing that also lowers non-voiced sound effects such as gunshots, etc. That is stupid to put voice and sound effects volumes into one setting.

The BGM and SFX volume are perfect for me. I just need to lower voice volume only.

Same here. The voiceovers in the movie narration parts are like 3 times as loud as anything else in the game. No idea how to lower their volume.