Cutscene Dialogue Lower Than in-Game Audio

[CNN the Reporter]

I've scene posts that were more than a few years old on this but not much past 2017, is there any known fix for the drastic change in Cutscene Dialogue Volume?

[raystevens73]

Right click speaker icon on Windows screen, select speaker setup, at the click playback, select your device and click properties, go to the advanced tab at the top, set the sound to 16 bit 48000 hz and below click both boxes for exclusive mode.
Give this a try to see if it changes it because the only times any cut scenes are low (hard to hear voice actors) is when back ground music like you get at the encampment for Ogre quest starts playing. It doesn't make it a drastic change though just a little hard to hear at the low volumes I use when playing a game.

[CNN the Reporter]

This was a great suggestion, a good alternative to the typical loudness equalization suggestion. Still though there are just scenes that have unbearably low audio and seems to be an issue built right into the game.

As a side for anyone else I tested several different surround sound applications to simulate while wearing headphones. It did also assist in making dialogue louder but made many other sounds echo (at least for me). Did this with various qualities of 16bit and 24bit audio.

[Bullet Sponge]

You've probably finished the game by now but for anyone that hasn't, I think I know what the problem is.
The volume for in-game dialog is controlled in the game settings by the "voice" slider. The volume for cutscenes is, inexplicably, controlled by the music slider. I always turn everything down a bit but the voices so I ran into this problem. I don't know of a proper fix but turn the music slider back up and cutscenes will play at normal volume.