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Anonymous

11 years ago

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No Dialogue Sound in Dragon Age Inquisition

I can hear all the music and other sounds, however none of the Dialogue sound. I am on a desktop with a Realtek HD sound card using Logitech Speakers. I have tried repairing the game, restarting my...

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AsaTJ
11 years ago
Alright man, I think I locked it down. You need to go into the control panel for your sound card and manually change the sound to Stereo. The game thinks you're using 5.1 speakers and is playing the voiceover on a nonexistant front center channel, so all you can hear is a faint echo in the right and left surround. That's what worked for me, anyway.

AsaTJ

11 years ago

I think I'm having this same issue. The voiceover is there, but it's extremely quiet, as if it's playing from an audio channel that is not enabled. It sounds fine on my speakers, but when I plug in my Steelseries Siberia headphones, the dialogue is almost inaudible. I've tried restarting, selecting Headphone mode in the Audio menu, and plugging the headphones directly into my sound card instead of running them through the speakers.

It seems to be a device compatibility issue, not a lack of VO files installed. These headphones work fine on all of my other games.

AsaTJ

11 years ago

Alright man, I think I locked it down. You need to go into the control panel for your sound card and manually change the sound to Stereo. The game thinks you're using 5.1 speakers and is playing the voiceover on a nonexistant front center channel, so all you can hear is a faint echo in the right and left surround. That's what worked for me, anyway.

EA_David
Community Admin
11 years ago
Excellent, thank you for the update asatj. I'll remember this for any times something like this comes up again.
- Anonymous
  11 years ago
  Can someone from EA comment on whether or not 5.1 audio should actually work though? Seems a little 1990's to have to play a game in stereo audio.
  - goodjediman
    11 years ago
    I completely agree. I shouldn't have to perform my own fix for this...
Voltangel13
11 years ago
Im having this probelm but on my Xbox One
Anonymous
11 years ago
AWESOME FIX!!!
Had this problem with DAI, also had it with other games like ESO and Skyrim. These problems all started when I (maybe mistakenly) upgraded from Windows 8 to 8.1. After the upgrade I had these widespread sound issues when the sound on these games worked fine before. I EVEN CHATTED WITH A WINDOWS 8 "EXPERT", DID SCREEN CONTROL AND ALL THAT STUFF FOR HOURS, HIS ONLY SOLUTION WAS TO REWIPE MY HARD DRIVES AND GO BACK TO WINDOWS 8 AND DOWNLOAD A PATCH THAT DOESN'T MAKE IT GO 8.1.......you Sir are smarter than a Windows expert lol.
Anyways, it must have been some kind of default sound card setting when it went 8.1. Again, thank you, great fix. PROPS!