No sound

[Panic Emoji]

Recently I no longer have any audio, in the opening introduction with the special video it has audio but other than that there is no audio. I have had the game since day one with no issues with audio but all of a sudden I no longer have audio. Is there any fix that I can attempt to get audio back. I have tried my speakers, and headphones which neither work. All my other games have audio so my speakers are not at fault.

[Raynac]

im investing in this post

[Shoebsy]

First off, Troubleshooting!

Make sure the obvious is done, Audio from the game is cranked. Make sure that your windows options Volume Mixer is both putting sound out, and it's coming from the right channel.

If the game is giving off sound and you see it happening in the volume mixer, but you're still not hearing anything...

Do you've a soundcard installed on your PC? Is this only for Fallout 4? can you hear it on other programs?

[craigsters]

it's the loudness you want, it may have been un-checked my a windows update, you have to right click with your mouse on the speaker icon in the bottom right hand corner near your pc clock and scroll to sound in the context menu and double click on soeakers icon on the playback tab and then ho to the enhancements tab and it well have a square windows with a scroll bar in it, scoll to the bottom and but a check mark in the box in front of loudness equalization and you'll be a happy camper!..

if you still don't understand what I meant, google how to turn on loudness and type youtube at the end to get a youtube video how to

[Panic Emoji]

The only game that does this is fallout 4 and metro last light redux, every other game works perfectly. So something is wrong with the game. Like it just stopped having audio along with metro last light out of the blue, and if every other game works perfectly audio wise, why wouldn't fallout 4 have audio?

[Shoebsy]

Originally posted by Austin7641:

The only game that does this is fallout 4 and metro last light redux, every other game works perfectly. So something is wrong with the game. Like it just stopped having audio along with metro last light out of the blue, and if every other game works perfectly audio wise, why wouldn't fallout 4 have audio?

(Don't know about this specifcally, but i've gaussed my problem)

It may be an issue with how the game is choosing to play it's audio. I've an onboard sound system, plus a sound card.. Even with my built in speakers disabled, I've had games *refuse* to recognize my other audio devices.. But i've never had a problem with Fallout 4, It's mostly been ARMA 3, Wolfienstien and a couple more.

Try uninstalling/removing extra devices?

[Knuckles41]

Have you tried wiping your fallout 4 inis? perhaps they are read only and set to the lowest volume? If the intro movies are working with sound yet not the game it could be that

Also try revalidating the game, though I doubt this one will work it's worth a shot.

[Panic Emoji]

Originally posted by Knuckles41:

Have you tried wiping your fallout 4 inis? perhaps they are read only and set to the lowest volume? If the intro movies are working with sound yet not the game it could be that

Also try revalidating the game, though I doubt this one will work it's worth a shot.

How would one wipe inis? I've never heard of that.

[Knuckles41]

Originally posted by Austin7641:

Originally posted by Knuckles41:

Have you tried wiping your fallout 4 inis? perhaps they are read only and set to the lowest volume? If the intro movies are working with sound yet not the game it could be that

Also try revalidating the game, though I doubt this one will work it's worth a shot.

How would one wipe inis? I've never heard of that.

Ahh sorry, I must have been offline when you posted that, your ini's are your files fallout uses for your settings, wiping them means to remove them, thus resetting everything, they could have become messed up or have wrong information in them. to find them

C:\Users\YourUserName\Documents\My Games\Fallout4

The files you wanna move are
Fallout4.ini
Fallout4Prefs.ini
Fallout4Custom.ini

Move these to a seperate folder as backups or if you wanna copy any sensitivity changes or such from them, and start the game, it should rescan for your graphics card as if it's first time setup again. see if your game has sound after that.

Edit: one other thing sprung into mind, you could try go to

>Start/cortana
>Search for Control panel
>Sound
>Find the desired Sound device
>Right click and hit set as default

Do this if you haven't allready, it might be trying to use something else, if there are other devices and the desired one is set to default, try disabling the other devices if any, if you wanna display disabled devices again;

>Right click the empty white space
>Tick show disabled devices

You can also show disconnected devices this way.

Hope I helped

[Panic Emoji]

Originally posted by Knuckles41:

Originally posted by Austin7641:

How would one wipe inis? I've never heard of that.

Ahh sorry, I must have been offline when you posted that, your ini's are your files fallout uses for your settings, wiping them means to remove them, thus resetting everything, they could have become messed up or have wrong information in them. to find them

C:\Users\YourUserName\Documents\My Games\Fallout4

The files you wanna move are
Fallout4.ini
Fallout4Prefs.ini
Fallout4Custom.ini

Move these to a seperate folder as backups or if you wanna copy any sensitivity changes or such from them, and start the game, it should rescan for your graphics card as if it's first time setup again. see if your game has sound after that.

Edit: one other thing sprung into mind, you could try go to

>Start/cortana
>Search for Control panel
>Sound
>Find the desired Sound device
>Right click and hit set as default

Do this if you haven't allready, it might be trying to use something else, if there are other devices and the desired one is set to default, try disabling the other devices if any, if you wanna display disabled devices again;

>Right click the empty white space
>Tick show disabled devices

You can also show disconnected devices this way.

Hope I helped

Alright I will try this, thanks for helping me out.

[Knuckles41]

Originally posted by Austin7641:

Alright I will try this, thanks for helping me out.

You're welcome, let me know how it goes.

[ƎϽ∀ƎԀ]

The last sound problem I had, a couple of weeks ago, was due to my keyboard came to the end of its days. New keyboard and the sound problem cleared up.

[opjose]

Originally posted by Austin7641:

The only game that does this is fallout 4 and metro last light redux, every other game works perfectly. So something is wrong with the game.

Your assumption is incorrect.

Nothing is wrong with either game, something is wrong with how you THINK audio is being routed out of your system or your audio drivers.

Start by checking to see what is the default audio output device in Windows. It may have switched over to your HDMI cable, Integrated Audio, or another USB device... ( I've seen people plug in a camera and complain about no sound, when the sound had switched over to playing via the camera!)

Once you have the right audio device, check it's "properties" pages and make SURE you have the right number of speakers selected. I've seen people select 5.1 when they only had a two channel setup, and this caused all sorts of audio problems.

[76561198273035018]

Originally posted by Austin7642:

Originally posted by Knuckles41:

Ahh sorry, I must have been offline when you posted that, your ini's are your files fallout uses for your settings, wiping them means to remove them, thus resetting everything, they could have become messed up or have wrong information in them. to find them

C:\Users\YourUserName\Documents\My Games\Fallout4

The files you wanna move are
Fallout4.ini
Fallout4Prefs.ini
Fallout4Custom.ini

Move these to a seperate folder as backups or if you wanna copy any sensitivity changes or such from them, and start the game, it should rescan for your graphics card as if it's first time setup again. see if your game has sound after that.

Edit: one other thing sprung into mind, you could try go to

>Start/cortana
>Search for Control panel
>Sound
>Find the desired Sound device
>Right click and hit set as default

Do this if you haven't allready, it might be trying to use something else, if there are other devices and the desired one is set to default, try disabling the other devices if any, if you wanna display disabled devices again;

>Right click the empty white space
>Tick show disabled devices

You can also show disconnected devices this way.



Hi team im having the same issue as the above but its my first time setting up this game and ive only had the copmuter a couple days, im running windows 10 and i cant find the control panel or the ini parts of the files to delete.
I've disabled all but the sound device i want to use and still have the same issues the start video plays with sound fine but nothing in menus or in game play.

[[DFS]SciMan3010]

Ehm, I have a situation that many of the sounds are replaced with a loud scratch sound :/

Possible fix and i am getting very simmilar results to you sir

[Carson]

did you fiix it now becuse i am haveing the same problem :/