Sound too low

[sr19clon3]

i just jumped into the game, and the sound is too low to hear, but in settings, everything is set to highest bar value. any tips or solution?

[Ilja]

Is Windows volume set up? Sometimes sound manager sets game separately from other sources. If it does, the voice can be completely mute or minimal.

[Grumpy Old Dude]

windows volumes ettings, and turn your speaker/headset volume up

[Fear2288]

The sound quality in the game is actually very poor to begin with - at least by our 2023 standards.

If you’re open to using mods, I highly recommend Audio Overhaul.

I was a long time user of Immersive Sounds Compendium, but realized that ISC just adds new and different sound effects and isn’t so much concerned with increasing the quality of the sound. Thus, the sound effects that mod adds in are of better quality, but it does nothing about any remaining vanilla sounds and spoken dialogue.

Audio Overhaul both adds new sound effects AND increases the quality of the sound across the board.

I’ve been using it alongside the Phoenix Compendium of new sound effects for about a week now and I’m much happier with my audio experience in-game.

Loud sounds are loud and thunderous, ambient sounds are ambient, and voices are crisp and clear and don’t get drowned out by music and ambience or just unnecessarily come in as too quiet.

[Bad Distraction Carnifex]

Is your speaker setup calibrated for surround sound? Because Skyrim HATES surround sound and there's not really a mod out there to get around this.

You basically have to set your computer to stereo while you play Skyrim or you'll get very quiet voices, etc.

If that's not the problem it's just Skyrim being really quiet. There's a few fixes. Calibrating your speakers and adding loudness equalization helps. So will adding several mods like AOS, ISC, Reverb, etc might help. Or it might not. Skyrim is just a generally quiet game and requires blasting your speakers at stupid levels.

[sr19clon3]

Origineel geplaatst door Ilja:

Is Windows volume set up? Sometimes sound manager sets game separately from other sources. If it does, the voice can be completely mute or minimal.

Yes it is up, that's not an issue, other games give fine sound as they should. Skyrim and watch dogs are the only games that has too low sound and music

[sr19clon3]

Origineel geplaatst door Fear2288:

The sound quality in the game is actually very poor to begin with - at least by our 2023 standards.

If you’re open to using mods, I highly recommend Audio Overhaul.

I was a long time user of Immersive Sounds Compendium, but realized that ISC just adds new and different sound effects and isn’t so much concerned with increasing the quality of the sound. Thus, the sound effects that mod adds in are of better quality, but it does nothing about any remaining vanilla sounds and spoken dialogue.

Audio Overhaul both adds new sound effects AND increases the quality of the sound across the board.

I’ve been using it alongside the Phoenix Compendium of new sound effects for about a week now and I’m much happier with my audio experience in-game.

Loud sounds are loud and thunderous, ambient sounds are ambient, and voices are crisp and clear and don’t get drowned out by music and ambience or just unnecessarily come in as too quiet.

I have no mods installed

[sr19clon3]

Origineel geplaatst door Bad Distraction Carnifex:

Is your speaker setup calibrated for surround sound? Because Skyrim HATES surround sound and there's not really a mod out there to get around this.

You basically have to set your computer to stereo while you play Skyrim or you'll get very quiet voices, etc.

If that's not the problem it's just Skyrim being really quiet. There's a few fixes. Calibrating your speakers and adding loudness equalization helps. So will adding several mods like AOS, ISC, Reverb, etc might help. Or it might not. Skyrim is just a generally quiet game and requires blasting your speakers at stupid levels.

I'll try this and let you know next time I play Skyrim, thank you for your generous comment. I highly appreciate it. Thanks everyone.