Weird Sound Issues Since Update 43

Seravi · August 2024

I noticed I have lost a lot of sounds in West Weald since the update. If I zone in the city I cannot hear footsteps, Leramil stalking me or half of the NPCs in the city. The two gals chatting about money and needing a house by the wayshrine, I only hear one of them.

I was questing in Eastmarch and after I came out of wayshrine my character sounds were so low it was hard to hear, like when she heavy hits or makes sounds for emotes.

Logging out and back in helps for a while but the WW issues are constant. My sweet Ezabi is now a mute cat!

Saw others in chat this morning asking if anyone was having issues with sounds as well.

N00BxV1 · August 2024

I've noticed this happening before Update 43 dropped. It has happened several times where all sound effects would stop playing like when I summoned and rode my mount, tried using abilities, etc.

And for far longer than that I've been occasionally experiencing my ability sound effects not playing or being delayed, like when I use Chains to pull enemies there would be no sound effect at all but the ability will still fire.

I've ran a repair on the game files through the launcher many times but the loss of sound effects still happens.

Lylith · August 2024

i've noticed some of the explosions and background noise either cuts off or is nearly completely attenuated at certain times in the last room of the oblivion portals. it almost sounds like the effects run out of headspace and mute themselves, as it is usually the loudest explosions that are cut off.

noticed it before the update, fwiw.

Seravi · August 2024

I agree this was an issue before the update. WW has always had sound issues for me at different times. They just seem to be more obvious and more sound cutting out after the update in this zone.

I didn't have any issues anywhere else before the update so Eastmarch was a shock when it started happening there.

Thanks for the replies!

Soarora · August 2024

For me, it was the update before this one. Particularly my arcanist has sound cut in and out. The other day I had the interesting problem where my arcanist became a mute and I could hear the first half of fatecarver but then it trailed out into silence.

AzuraFan · August 2024

I'm hearing an additional sound when I create a potion at an alchemy table. That's the only sound issue I've noticed since U43. I hear the usual potion-creating sound, but that's followed by another one that's familiar but I can't place it.

EDIT: The potion-creation sound is the second sound I hear. The first sound is a crafting sound, but again I can't place it. Anyway, definitely two sounds. The first is a crafting sound that shouldn't be happening, and the second is the usual potion-creation sound.

YandereGirlfriend · August 2024

I lost all sound in the game except for light attack sounds.

Repairing the game is what fixed it for me. It re-downloaded several gigs of files that were, I suppose, lost or mangled during one of the recent patches.

SkaiFaith · August 2024

AzuraFan wrote: »

I'm hearing an additional sound when I create a potion at an alchemy table. That's the only sound issue I've noticed since U43. I hear the usual potion-creating sound, but that's followed by another one that's familiar but I can't place it.

Could it be the cooking sound? I noticed it sometimes persists on other professions.

I noticed the absence of sounds with U42, especially when jumping to Gonfalon Bay Wayshrine.
I'm on console so I can't talk yet about U43 but I was hoping for a fix, not an aggravation...

AzuraFan · August 2024

SkaiFaith wrote: »

AzuraFan wrote: »

I'm hearing an additional sound when I create a potion at an alchemy table. That's the only sound issue I've noticed since U43. I hear the usual potion-creating sound, but that's followed by another one that's familiar but I can't place it.

Could it be the cooking sound? I noticed it sometimes persists on other professions.

I noticed the absence of sounds with U42, especially when jumping to Gonfalon Bay Wayshrine.
I'm on console so I can't talk yet about U43 but I was hoping for a fix, not an aggravation...

Not the cooking sound, but I know what you mean. I used to hear the cooking sound when crafting jewelry, rather than the jewelry tapping sound. That seems to have gone away. Now I'm hearing two sounds at the alchemy table.

Hatehouse · January 31

N00BxV1 wrote: »

I've noticed this happening before Update 43 dropped. It has happened several times where all sound effects would stop playing like when I summoned and rode my mount, tried using abilities, etc.

And for far longer than that I've been occasionally experiencing my ability sound effects not playing or being delayed, like when I use Chains to pull enemies there would be no sound effect at all but the ability will still fire.

I've ran a repair on the game files through the launcher many times but the loss of sound effects still happens.

The topic was created in 2024. It's 2025 now and the sound problem is still not solved.

I also experience constant sound fading. Or sounds do not play after pressing abilities. And no one knows what to do about it.

Seravi · January 31

Sadly yes this is still an issue for me as well.

My banker Ezabi no longer speaks to me in the city. If I leave the city or I am in another zone, she talks just fine.

Lord_Graas · January 31

No foosteps SFX in Skingrad sometimes — true

SilverBride · January 31

Every now and then I lose the footstep sounds, but if I stop moving and start again they usually come back.

For a long time now I will occasionally hear woodworking sounds at all the crafting stations, but only on one particular character.

The other day I lost the ambient music in one of my houses for a couple of minutes, then it came back. I don't remember which house it was.

Grega · January 31

Since the update (was reported, but no acknowledgment by ZOS) footsteps sounds also got switched on both clockwork polymorphs (crown store and in game one) - where footsteps are regulated by effects slider and not footsteps slider.

Perhaps this is the issue with everyone having other footsteps problems - I initially thought footsteps were muted too until I realized it is coded wrong and regulated by effects slider - I thought it’s clockwork polymorphs only but it seems maybe just inconsistent?

Who knows 🤷‍♂️

Djennku · February 1

Mayor may not be related: loading into some areas (ie. that one deadlands wayshrine whose name I forgot, southwestern most one), gets bugged and all sounds cut out running from there in the direction of the Unmaker WB, and cuts back on randomly loading into other areas. Lots of in game places have this issue.

Aztrias · February 1

Experienced the same losing character sounds in High Isle after teleporting there via wayshrine.

Also happened in Shadowfen.

Warhawke_80 · February 1

Experiencing the same thing....it also happens right outside Daggerfall overlook but only at night.

I am I being pursued by an invisible stalker?