Sound issues

[Exi]

I posted on Beamdog's personal forums but no luck so far, thought I could ask you guys if you have some insight on this issue (as I searched around and found nothing, that or I suck at searching).

I downloaded and installed NWN:EE from Steam last night and I'm having issues with sound, not sure if bugs or specific problem. They are all related but will make them in a list for better tracking, please read all points.

1) Ambient sound cuts off when the camera is a certain distance from the source. For example, standing near a torch in the Academy: it's either full volume fire raging or completely silent, depending on camera angle. It doesn't fade or increase based on camera position, it's either on or off. It's not game breaking but it bugs the hell out of me to move the character through the level and have random sound effects raging in my ear for 1 second then cutting off.

2) Sound position is wrong or totally faded. Sometimes I fight a creature and only hear it in one headphone even though I'm facing it. Same goes for dialogue. Camera must be centered perfectly on the NPC in order to hear the proper sound, otherwise it sounds like the NPC is on the far side of a cave and only in one speaker. When the camera zooms in for a dialogue, I can barely hear the first few words since the camera is at an angle, so I have to move it manually to a point I can hear properly.

3) Sound options in the menu are lacking. I don't have the options to change from speakers to surround, enable hardware sound and so on.
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/912416819142693155/BDE1F5240A5818C2C39E3352D656C7895B5E8AAA/
Here is a screenshot of the menu. Also note that "Advanced settings" only has 2D3D Bias, which doesn't help with my sound problems.
I tried tweaking it from nwn.ini but I don't hear any difference.

My setup:
Windows 7
Intel i5 4440
MSI GeForce GTX 970
16 Gb RAM
No dedicated sound card

Thanks for reading all of this, I'll wait for your replies. Have a great day!

[EDIT] Video of the sound bug: https://youtu.be/2w1JIQUpKy0?t=14s

[Exi]

Still no response from the forums, giving this one a bump, fingers crossed

[Julius Borisov]

Hello! These issues should be reported on support.baldursgate.com according to the instruction here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/704450/discussions/0/♥♥♥♥866180593857037/

Thanks in advance!

[Exi]

Hello!

Was not sure if this was a general bug or a personal problem. Submitted the bug anyway.

Thank you!

[svfn]

that ambient sound cutoff seems like a bug.

i believe the NWN Diamond edition on GoG have better sound options, and the ability to enable EAX. here are the options for reference:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1345765574
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1345765658
the 2D/3D bias doesnt seem to do anything in the Diamond version either. but at least you can choose 5.1 or stereo mode.

[Exi]

Originally posted by svfn:

that ambient sound cutoff seems like a bug.

i believe the NWN Diamond edition on GoG have better sound options, and the ability to enable EAX. here are the options for reference:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1345765574
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1345765658
the 2D/3D bias doesnt seem to do anything in the Diamond version either. but at least you can choose 5.1 or stereo mode.

Yep, that's what I remember too and it was weird that I could not change those. I thought maybe related. Tweaking the nwn.ini didn't help in any way.

https://youtu.be/2w1JIQUpKy0?t=14s

Here is a video I did of the bug. Bare with me that this is a demonstration, walking past tens of sounds that go on/off for a second is infuriating.

[Julius Borisov]

Originally posted by Exi:

Hello!

Was not sure if this was a general bug or a personal problem. Submitted the bug anyway.

Thank you!

Appreciated!