krazmuze

Very glad someone here discovered the cause of random missing soundtrack and weapon sounds. I struggled an entire day with this as I just started an AE playthru (opposed CC as online DRM but since GOG released it as offline DLC and no CC the price was right) I was using two sound replacers, one for actual soundtrack music and one for music/speech ripped from PS4 and regard;ess of loose files or bsa/esl with this or that mod was bringing back the sounds. I even stripped back to a SKSE only install and still had a problem. Finally I concluded the GOG AE release must have broke with the latest JAN patch, and redownladed both my STEAM AE/VR releases and found the same problem with vanilla install. Since VR does not have CC/AE DLC I was absolutely stumped as that could be ruled out as the cause. Since SSD prices spiked it was cheaper to make a 4TB drive by stacking 1TB drives and using the Windows Drive Manager to merge them into one large drive, and it did not use the 512 sector by default I had no idea Skyrim was programmed to bypass the OS buffers but makes sense for the prior decades poor HD performance with all the loading screens. Soon as I read this post I realized this must be the cause and it was an easy mod fix, but it was buried deep in google results. Most googlers are idiots that have no idea how to configured their sound panel and get no sounds not some sound. I support adopting the mod, sure it might add OS overhead to tater laptops with HD but over the last decade those have been replaced by SSD (any BGS fan has already upgraded their game drive if they moved onto Starfield which requires SSD) so it is likely no longer noticeable now in the move from WIN7 to WIN11. I really noticed the lack of sounds with the first dragon fight getting the shout, that scene really needs the soundtrack - it had far less impact without it. The intro dragon soundtrack played so it took me a bit to realize I was missing something!