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10 years ago
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Mass effect 2 and 3 no sound

I need a some help i recently purchased mass effect 2 and 3. As soon i start them up i found to my dismay that there was absolutely no sound in the games what so ever. I have tried alot of quick fixes and even some more advanced fixes and nothing seems to work. my specs are as follows 

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3820 CPU @ 3.60GHz Manufacturer Intel Speed 3.6 GHz Number of Cores 4 CPU ID BFEBFBFF000206D7 Family 06 Model 2D Stepping 7 Revision   Video Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Manufacturer NVIDIA Chipset GeForce GTX 980 Ti Dedicated Memory 6144 MB Total Memory 6144 MB Pixel Shader Version 5.1 Vertex Shader Version 5.1 Hardware T & L Yes Vendor ID 10DE Device ID 17C8 Plug and Play ID VEN_10DE&DEV_17C8&SUBSYS_36B61458&REV_A1 Driver Version 10.18.13.6143 Memory 32 GB Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 (build 10240), 64-bit Service Pack 0 Size 64 Bit Edition   Version 10.0.10240 Locale 0409 BIOS   Version American Megatrends Inc. F7 Manufacturer   Date 03/19/14 Display Maximum Resolution 1360 x 768 Sound Device 1 ASUS Xonar DS Audio Device Driver Version 6.12.8.1768 Sound Device 2 High Definition Audio Device Driver Version 10.0.10240.16384 Sound Device 3 NVIDIA Virtual Audio Device (Wave Extensible) (WDM) Driver Version 1.2.31.0 Sound Device 4 NVIDIA High Definition Audio Driver Version 1.3.34.4 DVD TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-224BB CD TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-224BB Drive 1   Size 1.8 TB Free 1.2 TB Drive 2   Size 465.6 GB Free 357.1 GB Drive 3   Size 111.4 GB Free 5.3 GB Browsers   Internet Explorer 11.0.10240.16603 Chrome 47.0.2526.106 Firefox 39.0 Safari  

Software   Java   Flash 20.0.0.267 DirectX 11.0 .NET 3.5.30729.4926 QuickTime   Adobe PDF Reader

any help would be awesome though alot of the basic fixes have already been tried

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    I solved the issue yesterday it ended up being a weird compatibility issue where i had to run the program as an administrator and change both the launcher and exe file to run in windows 7 mode. This fixed the entire issue and now the game was sound and is running beautifully

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  • fireturtle777's avatar
    fireturtle777
    7 years ago

    I'm on windows 10, and I clicked run as administrator, and the sound magically worked again. This seems to be the solution. 

  • vichart1948's avatar
    vichart1948
    7 years ago

    I have seen a lot of complex fixes regarding the HDMI no sound problem to no avail.

    Try my fix and see if it works.

    Load up Mass Effect 2 and go to extras/options/graphics/window mode  and select window (no border)

    It worked for me. Let me know if it works for you.

    Cheers and Die Safe....o7

    Oh ya, dont forget to run it in Big Shot (administrator) mode too.

  • nateleazer's avatar
    nateleazer
    6 years ago

    Thank you so much! Was looking everywhere and tried everything and this finally worked!!!

  • EA_Atic's avatar
    EA_Atic
    Icon for DICE Team rankDICE Team
    3 years ago
    This is on the older side of time, I'm closing this thread to stop it from being necroed.

    If you have any issues with Mass Effect, please make a new topic about your problems and what kind of steps you have tried to solve them.

    /Atic

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