No player/menu audio

[Admiralthrawnbar]

As it says on the tin, I've been playing my current save for a couple weeks and suddenly the audio stopped working properly. Player footsteps, pipboy, menu buttons, and weapon draw/holster make no sound yet everything else from ambient music to weapons firing still happens. The only other glitch I've encountered is that my sentry bot (I'm using Robco Certified) will keep making gatling-laser sounds even once he's not firing. I've tried rebooting the computer and verifiying game intergrity but neither works and I've been trying to find a solution but the only thing that matches what happened to me is this 8 year old youtube clip that doesn't have a solution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_xdgkL4_Jc

[talgaby]

If you are unlucky, you need to reinstall your audio drivers.

If you are lucky, just go to the sound options, the sound volume panel, select your audio device, properties, special, and change the format from 48 kHZ 24-bit to 48 kHz 16-bit.

[Jfulls002]

I've had a similar problem where at like 15-20 minutes into a session, the music(ambient music + songs from pip boy) start skipping like a record, they keep time, but are like constantly getting caught. The songs from the static radios are fine, and so is the Mr. New Vegas commentary regardless of the source (pip boy or static radio), and usually just setting the music volume slider to zero takes it away, and when I next launch the game, the audio is back to normal. this happens randomly, like I could go 2-3 sessions without it happening, 2-3 with it happening back to back.

This is purely a cosmetic (or I guess auditory) issue and doesn't actually effect gameplay

[Admiralthrawnbar]

Originally posted by talgaby:

If you are unlucky, you need to reinstall your audio drivers.

If you are lucky, just go to the sound options, the sound volume panel, select your audio device, properties, special, and change the format from 48 kHZ 24-bit to 48 kHz 16-bit.

Neither works but you have helped me issolate the issue to my new headphones since it worked fine when played through my monitor's ♥♥♥♥♥♥ speakers

[Admiralthrawnbar]

So, I have no idea why this worked, but after having given up I just randomly changing settings and turning on "windows Sonic for Headphones" on the tab "Spatial sound" in audio devices fixed it. Can someone just quote this in a replay as I can't mark my own replay as a solution for some reason

[talgaby]

Originally posted by Admiralthrawnbar:

So, I have no idea why this worked, but after having given up I just randomly changing settings and turning on "windows Sonic for Headphones" on the tab "Spatial sound" in audio devices fixed it. Can someone just quote this in a replay as I can't mark my own replay as a solution for some reason