Missing sound effects

[Angelbuffy-silvermoon]

Lately, I do not know exactly how long now, it seems some sounds have got removed and the game now sounds very weird.

For example I am riding on the chauffeured mount which has a steady background exhaust sound. I have turned my sounds up and I can barely hear the exhaust. I then press “space” and it revs the engine and the sounds burst through the speakers.

It is the same with footsteps or riding on other mounts, they are very silent, I swear I once used to hear horse hoof sound effects, now my horse mounts are virtually silent.

During combat I have noticed there are sound effects missing too. Many boss abilities are totally silent, yet there are huge animations and explosions on screen. For example I am sure I used to hear swords and shields clanging even in the distance, when looking at the tank and melees fighting mobs. Now it is totally silent as if I am watching a silent movie and the only sounds I can hear arte those of my own spells, as if I am attacking the target dummy.

Some effects are there but it appears some have got removed or turned down.

Has anyone noticed anything similar?

[Thova-alonsus]

Have you checked the sound/music settings?

[Angelbuffy-silvermoon]

I have turned sounds to max in game and in Windows. If I play mp3 music at these levels it will blow my ears off. I have switched off “Distance Filtering”. I have 64 sound channels and 64MB sound buffers.

Yet it is not much improved. During battle I can hear my spells averagely, but not the Paladin’s abilities who is right next to me fighting the same boss and whose abilities effects I can clearly see. If I do not cast any spells there will be very few sounds even though I am right in the melee, it is as if I am watching a silent movie.

I am almost certain it was not like that in the past, there were more sound effects and louder too. Something has changed.