Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Missing Audio since Patch 7

I had this bug since Patch 7.
Basically, one of your saves randomly becomes "corrupted", and a lot of sounds stop working: sheathe/unsheathe, most impact sounds (you still get the whiff and some special effects, but not the basic hit sound, very noticable when hitting the ground or a dummy with ranged attack).

I have old saves from 2023 that work fine, but as soon as I load one of the bugged ones, the sounds stop working properly on all saves, and I have to restart the game to get the old ones working again.
I’ve tried verifying the game files, doing a clean reinstall, and purging the game files. I read on some old posts here that people had good results deleting .pak files from previous hotfixes, but now it’s Patch 8 and those files aren’t there anymore.

Has anyone been able to find a solution ? I really hoped that Patch 8 would fix it.

On PS5 at least, a bug like this has been there since forever. It sometimes affects characters selectively too - some party members will have most of their sound effects missing (as well as banter voice clips and combat voices) while others don't. As you say, restarting the game fixes it, but it returns later.

I haven't had it happen in Patch 8 so far, but that may be because I have to restart the game every couple hours regardless, because of the OTHER sound-related bug on PS5, the one where cutscene dialogue voice clips start playing too late, breaking most cutscenes once the bug has occurred. The devs are at least aware of the latter bug, but when I reported the bug you describe, the customer support person didn't seem to understand and thought it was the same bug as the cutscene one.

Actually restarting the game won't even fix it on broken saves unfortunately

Then it's not the same bug, but it sucks that there are so many weird audio bugs in the game.

I finally found it. No fix though.

It's due to honor mode ruleset.
I tried to start several games with basic ranger Tav.

Tactician or Custom with Classic Ruleset : No problem whatsoever.
Honor Mode or Custom with Honor Mode Ruleset : Missing audio, no sound when hitting the ground with the bow for exemple.

Still super weird. And it's quite hard to bring yourself to play without honor rules after a few playthrought.