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Without fail during battle, the sound effects for spells, attacks, or abilities will not trigger half the time. This results in silent spells and abilities and no sound when a weapon strikes an enemy. Sometimes the sound for these effects will play and work fine, and I can't really determine a pattern for when they will and will not work.

There are also instances of it happening outside of battle in regards to the main character dialogue and that of other NPCs. Sometimes their quips will not be voiced and yet upon reloading a save and going through the same area, the sound will work as intended and I will hear them.

Any idea what might be causing this?

I have the same problem... I need to run some tests and try low quality audio in the options and maybe update audio drivers to see if it resolves the problem. Would be nice to know if it's a common problem or if there's a particular solution.

I'm having the same problem but only with the latest patch ; 1.0.81.0
Before that, the sounds always worked.

Same problem after one of those patches. Sound card is Asus Xonar D1

Please email supportdos@larian.com, with a description of the problem and the report.zip file generated by the D:OS support tool (for the PC version). The report will contain system and game information, any crash dumps, and your saved games (which are not relevant, unless there is a specific place where this is consistent, or something, so can be deleted from the zip to reduce file size).

For the Mac version, include your system information (System Profiler).

Alright, the email and report.zip file has been sent.

I have the same problem since the last few patchs. It was fine before. Spells, skills, dialogues and any sounds effect may skip now and then. Like 10-20% of the time.

Any solution for this case?

Bumping in lieu of making a new topic. Still an issue for me, sound effects only worked sporadically. Most noticeable during combat, with various audio effects entirely absent. Also had it happen when setting oil pools on fire (no burning/fire sound) and when striking for ore (silver node in the White Witch's cave).

Bumping again as I too am still having this problem, really hope there's a patch or fix soon as I love this game and would hate to complete my first run of it with only half the soundFX playing..