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[ShiftyJim]

So, I'm new to Nehrim, and I've installed the English version. Almost everything seems to work fine, except that there are absolutely no sound effects or voices. The music is all there, and the narration during the intro was fine, but after starting the game, I only see the English subtitles when people speak, and things like walking, attacking, etc. make no sound. I wouldn't mind people speaking in German with English subtitles, but in my game they have no voice at all. I tried both hardware accelerated sound and software accelerated sound, and neither one worked. The voice level in my audio settings is all the way up. Help?

[urst]

welcome to the forum

and congratulations, after searching for "Oblivion no sound" I got dozens of results
and not a single solution
hm.

- you should find the oblivion.ini in ...\Documents\My Games\Oblivion;
open it and look for
bMusicEnabled=1
bSoundEnabled=1
(under [Audio], near the middle of the document)
is it both set to 1? otherwise (if the lines read "=0" change it to "=1"

- have you tried reinstalling the game?

- was Oblivion on the latest patch ( german one is 1.2.0416; not sure if yours would be the same) before installing Nehrim?

- can you play Oblivion with sound?

- you could also try reinstalling your audio card's drivers

let's hope something of that helps

[ShiftyJim]

Thanks a bunch! I'm not sure what exactly the problem was, but I checked the ini file, and it was all good, so I uninstalled Nehrim, then I uninstalled Oblivion. Then, I restarted my computer and reinstalled Oblivion. Then I tested Oblivion, and it worked fine, so I reinstalled Nehrim. Then I restarted my computer, ran Nehrim, and now the audio seems to be working fine. I really appreciate the help!

[urst]

huh, neat
glad to hear

[ShiftyJim]

So I feel like an idiot now, but I just started it up again after responding to actually play it, and now it's back to the way it was before. Should I try reinstalling it again?

[urst]

:/

hm, something tells me that that wouldn't help in the long run
what about Oblivion? is that silent now as well?

are you running the Steam version or retail?

EDIT
- do you have any Mods installed?
- where is Nehrim installed? something protected like program files(x86)?
- it could maybe also be a corrupted install file :/ in that case you'd have to download it again

[ShiftyJim]

Alright, I can't make heads or tails of this. I ran Oblivion to see if the sound was working. It was. Then I ran Nehrim again to make sure the sound still wasn't working. But then, the sound did work again. So then I was thinking maybe the sound only works after I run Oblivion?

So I ran Oblivion again, and guess what? No sound. No sound in Nehrim either. I've never seen anything like this.

I am running the retail version, by the way, the one that comes with the Elder Scrolls Anthology.

Edit: No mods, not even OBSE. I have it installed in a game directory on a separate partition than my C drive, which I use for all my games.

[urst]

(I actually like these problems, as long as they don't happen to me )

let's try this:

- uninstall both
- reinstall both
- run Oblivion
- set the oblivion.ini to read only

[ShiftyJim]

Good idea. I'll start on that, and get back to you when I'm done.

[ShiftyJim]

Ok, so I did all that. I uninstalled Nehrim and Oblivion, and for good measure, I re-downloaded the Nehrim installer. I reinstalled Oblivion, and I reinstalled Nehrim. I ran Oblivion (the audio was working), and then I set the oblivion.ini file to read only.

Then, I ran Nehrim. The audio worked fine. I played for about five minutes, with dialogue, weapon sounds, etc., all working fine. Then, I restarted Nehrim to see if the audio would still work. It didn't.

Do you have any more suggestions? I really appreciate the help.

[urst]

I may have found something

Oblivion does NOT like any sound setting over 2-channel (or Stereo)

Q) How do I know this?

A) I changed my sounds settings in Windows to 5.1 channel, and after that Oblivion NPC's lost their voices.

A.2) To make sure, I changed it several times from 2-channel to 5.1, back in to OB, npc's had no voices, changed it back to 2-channel (or Stereo), they had their voices again. Changed it to 7.1channel, back in OB npc's lost their voices once again, changed back to 2-channel (or Stereo), they had their voices again.

Q) How do you fix this?

A) Go to Sound settings, usually in Control Panel (or the sound manager that was installed with your sound card), There will be an option for Speaker Configuration (or similar), if it is set at anything higher than 2-channel (or Stereo) (such as 5.1 or 7.1) change it to 2-channel (or Stereo). Save the options and exit, then load oblivion, and talk with a NPC, and they should now have sound.

Note:

This is a general guideline, there are too many different audio managers for Windows XP, Vista, and 7. It would be impossible to list every version of windows sound settings.

If you need more help figuring out your audio manager, I would be more than happy to help. I would need some information first...

1) What windows are you using? XP, Vista, 7

2) Audio Manager (if you have one) (such as Realtek (there are others, but I've only had realtek, for ages) (there is usually a icon on the notification area of the task bar close to the clock)

maybe