has the Low Volume audio bug been fixed?

[TRIPLE A ®™]

In the Epic edition there's this terrible audio bug that renders every sound down to practically unhearable levels, no matter what audio settings I used in-game or Windows. even if I used the Loudness Equalization setting in my Audio Manager, it made zero difference.

this was also a problem in both original Dead Island and Riptide on Steam, but a patch fixed it soon after launch back in the day.

however 3 weeks after DI2 release there was still no patch to speak of, and after numerous brain-numbing back'n'forth emails with non-english speaking Epic/Deep Silver tech support, nothing ever came of it.

I finished the game by using a third-party audio-boosting tool which sadly had a limited trial and a ridiculous price tag attached to it. so I practically had to rush through the game before the trial ended.

needless to say I have not bought any DLC whatsoever. thinking of buying the Steam version, but will definitely not if the Audio bug still persists a year later.

[Niliu]

I think I know the one you mean. It only ever strikes for me when I alt+tab out of the game, or open PROS or something, but yea, only fix for now is to close and reopen, as far as I know.

Also, as a personal suggestion, don't buy games twice for PC, you can pretty much always play with anyone on PC regardless of launcher. Just tryin to save you some $$

[JefferyNothing]

Nope its still there. I made a thread on it a while back. Nothings been done about it since then. I've hardly played much of the game because of it. I wish I could refund it to be honest, but its too late for that.

[NativeOne]

Origineel geplaatst door Niliu:

Also, as a personal suggestion, don't buy games twice for PC, you can pretty much always play with anyone on PC regardless of launcher. Just tryin to save you some $$

i do it all the time with games i really really like ..
(or the Devs)

Especially from their OWN platform ..

i only recently started buying games on steam (again) ..

so most of the games i purchased else where was because of my fall out with steam ..
(steam has loads of issues)

i only got this one on steam because steam had it and Dead Island Series doesn't have their own platform ..

[NativeOne]

Origineel geplaatst door Titus:

Nope its still there. I made a thread on it a while back. Nothings been done about it since then. I've hardly played much of the game because of it. I wish I could refund it to be honest, but its too late for that.

i use the steam version np's ..

however when i do have audio issues (on any game or platform) i go to device manager ..

and uninstall *every audio device* (without uninstalling drivers) ..

restart system and sounds normally correct itself ..

~hope that helps

[Niliu]

Origineel geplaatst door NativeOne:

Origineel geplaatst door Niliu:

Also, as a personal suggestion, don't buy games twice for PC, you can pretty much always play with anyone on PC regardless of launcher. Just tryin to save you some $$

i do it all the time with games i really really like ..
(or the Devs)

Especially from their OWN platform ..

i only recently started buying games on steam (again) ..

so most of the games i purchased else where was because of my fall out with steam ..
(steam has loads of issues)

i only got this one on steam because steam had it and Dead Island Series doesn't have their own platform ..

Fair enough, like I said, was just bein friendly :)

[NativeOne]

i've notice if i have the game music volume too low i can't hear something running up on me ..

The music actually tells you there's something coming ..

i prefer just hearing foot steps and running so i normally lower music ingame ..

but in this case i have to bring music level up a notch ..
from 10 to 20 ..

[JefferyNothing]

It does it on any sample rate. There's literally nothing on the audio setting side that corrects it. I've tried everything. Its the games audio that's the problem. This is the only game I have where this is an issue for me. Support just tells you to set your audio in windows to stereo. Which still doesn't do anything.

Its annoying because it seems like the issue is just getting ignored, even though I've paid my money for a faulty product. The game has been out for a while now and this issue has been reported by many users from day one and it still hasn't been resolved.

[NativeOne]

it doesn't lose audio on me -steam version ..

i had to increase head set volume but that for most part is the new game(s) today ..

i don't lose volume at any time ..

i only had to increase music volume to hear warning music of impending doom ..

i normally turn off all game music -totally so i can hear all game sounds ..

but instead had to turn music up from 10% to 20% ..

~pretty use to it now

[TRIPLE A ®™]

Origineel geplaatst door Nova:

so it still happens even if you set windows audio sampling rate to 48000Hz or even 44100Hz?

what Titus said. I changed every setting under the sun with no effect. Volume still remains at 5-10% of what it should be. You can barely hear anything.

I spent several weeks back'n'forthing with tech support that barely spoke english and they kept passing me around between them. they had no clue either.