Missing Sound Effects

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Hi,

I’m having a weird issue. The game has no sound effects when im in normal world. For example, if I’m at silvermoon, I cannot hear the sound effects from my spells.

This affects any sound effects from the interface, so for example, if you click on the game menus, it makes no sounds. This also affects stuff like queue popping.

The ambience and music sounds do work normally.

I have checked the settings on “Audio”, and “Sound Effects” is enabled, so it’s not due to that either. I have switched the system output from System Default to the specific output, and no luck.

I have deleted the WTF folder

I have rebooted the PC

I have disabled add-ons, and I have reloaded multiple times.

If I join instanced content, such as arenas, the sound effects are back and work normally.

I have updated graphic drivers from Nvidia today to version 596.21

EDIT:

After banging my head against the wall over and over, I finally found the cause. It’s a bug, specifically in Silvermoon

On this exact spot:

https: //i. postimg.cc/pLVqrHRs/image.png

I have main storyline completed. And on the exact spot from the picture, the game disables the sound effects

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In my case the ambiance and music drown out all other sounds. Silvermoon, the island north of it, some of the light-infused areas of Eversong and around nearly all waterfalls in Harandar. It’s not due to a low number of active sound channels (20-128). For others disabling sound completely boosts their FPS by almost double (mainly around The Sunwell), indicating it’s a deeper problem with the game that goes beyond just some sound files not playing properly.

Combat sounds will sometimes come though in these very specific areas, but at 1/10th the general volume.

It’s the same thing with 5.1 and stereo.

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Yup, also getting this randomly in the last few days. Music plays without issue, but all my SFX are missing. By any chance you do use ELVUI? This is legit the worst expansion ever for these issues, I have to reload my UI at least 5 times per session and now this.