Almost No Sustained Background Music? Possible Audio Bug?

If you swap from Home Theatre to another mode, does this change at all? I've been trying to gather info on the Banter issue - which is anecdotally related - and have heard good things about toggling this mode. It seemed to help for my playthrough (I swapped to headphones), but I can't be sure if it actually changed things, or just stood out more because now I'm far more alert for banter. 

Hi there. 

I also have the banter issue other people describe. For example, I have never used the party combo of Varric, Sera and Dorian and for 40 minutes, they did not say a word.

Anyway, I have constantly tried swapping the Audio settings to TV/Headphones/ whatever else there was and used it for hours at a time. The ingame volume didnt increase and neither could I hear the background music on all settings. Just the few 4 second interludes and then silence once more (aka can only hear birds tweeting etc)

Edit: Okay the Audio loudness issue seems to have been resolved by updating the audio driver to the newest version (Realtek HD Audio) located here:

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=24&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false

Same here: no background music. T'is eery.

I hope the issue of the short main quest ( so short T'is silly ) is also a bug: patch 3: +10 hours of previously missing content! yea!

sigh😕mileyfrustrated:

@Kaeze-Phoenix 

doesnt your geforce GPU have HD audio? Im sure it has. Right? In theory you dont need that realtek onboard device. I think your gpu would do better as your audio device. Just an idea - maybe im wrong. Although I had a gtx 660 and an onboard realtek device... kind of bugged me that the realtek device wast automaticly disabled, whats the use of two audio devices anyway? Only gives room for potential conflicts - I gather.

"Edit: Another issue entirely is that the benchmark option in dragon seems to be running at warp speed. I hear absolutely nothing except for a single roar at the end of the benchmark and the benchmark itself only takes 10 seconds due to how fast its running. What's going on there?"

I also have this issue. What the hell?

a. The "No audio during the benchmark until the very end" is normal behaviour (dunno why.)

b. There is a timer for "ambient music".  It isn't supposed to play all the time, and if you have a (relatively) slow rig it will play even less often as with so much else going on the timer doesn't expire as often as it might otherwise.

c. Did you notice that this topic hasn't had a post in almost 3 years?  There isn't anything "wrong" and there isn't much you can do short of getting a replacement.