Fallout 4 Missing Player Voice Audio

[Mindshaker]

I hope this is the right place to ask . . .

I have searched the internet for the answer, but I have found only others with the same problem and no fix.

My players voice has disappeared. When I enter into dialogue with NPCs Nora bobs her head like she is talking but her lips don't move and no sound comes out. When the NPC responds, their lips move and their sound works fine. All other sounds in the game work fine.

The little information I found on the internet led me to changing the language to French and back to English, and removing garbage information from the fallout4.ini file. Neither had any effect.

This is my second playthrough. It happened on the first playthrough and I ignored it. Now for some strange reason it is bothering me.

I am hoping someone knows of a way to reset the audio or some other fix.

Please Help . . .

[4K1R4]

Hello,

Hmm. My best guess is that there is something broken in the .FUZ files used in the audio dialog playback.



Side NOTE: The way that Fallout 4 (And most of the BETH. games.) work is that there is a single archive file that holds the actual audio data for a given supported language like English or French or Japanese. The files are stored in the .fuz format. There is a part of the game engine that reads the audio wave form as it is being played back and forces the 3D character model to be animated / manipulated in time with the playback of the audio file thus making it appear that the character is speaking.



Question: Do you have any mods? Mods for changing the dialog options?



Possible Fixes: Delete the 2.5GB file in your Fallout 4 data directory called: " Fallout4 - Voices.ba2 " Use the STEAM verify system to have it re download that 2.5GB file to your P.C. STEAM will download the appropriate Fallout4 - Voices.ba2 for the language version you have selected. (Side note for fun: You can have the ENGLISH version of the game installed and use the JAPANESE / FRENCH / ETC audio file to immerse yourself in the language.)



Let us know how it turns out.



4K

[Mindshaker]

I deleted the Fallout4 - Voices.ba2 file. I had Steam verify local files and the Fallout4 - Voices.ba2 file was downloaded and verified.

I launched the game and there was no effect. Nora still has no voice. The subtitles say what she should be saying, but no audio.

*Question: Do you have any mods? Mods for changing the dialog options?

Answer: Yes. Many, many. It was after adding mods that Nora's voice disappeared. That is why I put up with it on the first play-through. I knew it was my modding and meddling that caused the problem.

However, I don't believe it is a particular mod because all the mods I had in the first play-through when the voice broke, I had in the second play-through when the voice was working.

It seems to me that the act of adding the mods is what broke the audio.

Anyway, thanks for trying to help. If you come up with anything else to try, please let me know.

[misterchow05]

Try to submerge into water and walk out.

[Mindshaker]

Thank you for the suggestion. I have been fully submerged many times. It has no effect.

[Naruto 607]

It might be a pain in the ass, but try playing them without mods and then replay with mods but diagnose mod by mod (i.e. install one mod at at time, see no problems, install another, and so on until the last one). One of the mods might be breaking the player voice. That's the only way to fix.

P.S.: dang, you have this issue since LAST YEAR? Oh boy...

[Mindshaker]

This is a good idea. However, a pain in the ass is an understatement as I am running 152 mods, give or take. Maybe when It bothers me enough, I will spend the umpteen hours it will take to do that.

Thanks for the help.

[Straux]

Your problem is the .ini and the sResourceDataDirsFinal= commmand line.

[Mindshaker]

In my .ini file the sResourceDataDirsFinal= nothing. What should it say?

[normundos123]

Sorry for my bad engrish :)
I seemed to get a simmilar or same problem, something to do with geting in and out of warer too quickly causes it. However it seems to affect the save file so if you load an earlier save it goeas away. I also found sort of a fix just use the AFF mod and run the player trough a bunch of animations. Tested it a few times

[Kiks]

I got this bug too, my last available save was like 2 hours ago so I just continued playing then after like 1 or 2 hours, a settler approached me asking me if could help around here apparently he was following me the whole time and I was stuck in that dialogue. maybe there's a NPC around waiting for you to respond??

[Mindshaker]

Thank you for the idea. Sadly, no there is no stuck dialogue. I have had this problem in two different play-throughs, I have had dialogue with hundreds of different NPCs since the problem started. Everybody's voice works fine except my own. I am planning on trying normundos123s idea above but I have not yet had a chance to. Thanks Kiks for the suggestion.

[Xeneye]

I don't know if this will help, but is your game installed on another drive rather than your boot drive?
If so I had a similar thing with my modded Skyrim SE, I needed to move a main audio file from the game folder to my C drive then create a link to it and then it worked fine, I followed the info in this thread https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/6575951-skyrim-no-sound-effects-fix/ maybe it will help you also?

[Mindshaker]

My game is installed on the boot drive. However, I am looking into all possibilities. All information is appreciated. Thank you for responding.

[Cyber Ortek]

I know this might be an ancient post but I still wanna say that, I fixed my voice problem by simply start the game by F4SE. I don’t know what the problem is until I tried to quit and it says exit save is disabled. And I know that something messed my F4SE up, just fix/reinstall that one, simple.

[ISDCC]

Originally posted by Karma:

Your problem is the .ini and the sResourceDataDirsFinal= commmand line.

what do you mean with this? i have the same issue