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4 years ago

ME2 LE Background Music Missing

ME1 LE had mostly working sound, but I've been having issues with ME2 LE for the entire time, some of which have been persisting through multiple clean reinstalls. The ones that are sticking around are mostly related to the background music. In some areas, the background music simply will not play.

For instance, during cutscenes with the Illusive Man, there is no music, similarly with the initial portion of Tali's loyalty mission, and the initial landing cutscene during Jacob's loyalty mission. It's almost as if certain music files are corrupted or something, but repairing or reintstalling the game does not fix the problem. Additionally, during Tali's recruitment mission, when much of the music is the same as in her loyalty mission, the music was playing. I'm baffled as to what the problem could be.

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  • I'm having the same issue. Just started my first playthrough of ME2LE and none of the background music is playing. From the first cutscene with Miranda and IM all way through the Normandy being destroyed. Sound effects and dialogue are working just not the background music. I've updated my drivers, restarted the game, changed the audio output device, messed with the settings (even restored back to default) and changed the window mode from full screen. Nothing has helped and this needs to be addressed.

  • Nevermind. I found the issue. I had deleted the DLC folder for the god awful Genesis comic. Apparently some of the audio files are in that folder because the DLC modifies most of the game's intro. Real shame that those DLCs are included in the first place.

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