Impact Sounds from Weapon are missing sometimes, also other Sounds too.

[moarSmokes]

Hello,

my game seems not to stream impact sounds and other weapon sounds sometimes.
Also the walking/running sounds are bugged too. Only 1 in 5 steps are hearable.

As this video shows

https://streamable.com/8fwqwn

I installed both Weather and Lighting and also the Post-Processing from the guide.
I only installed some character assets/skin on top of the STEP Guide, so (hopefully) shouldn't interfere with it.

Current Mods

[z929669]

The first step is to disable all mods you have added that aren't in the current guide. Test if your issues are resolved.

If not, then be certain that you have all Step Patches installed and that all mods are installed in order as listed in the guide.

Ensure that all mods under 07-Sounds and Music are installed as instructed.

Ensure all plugins are enabled and that you have disabled mod plugins where indicated per mod instructions.

[moarSmokes]

Hi, thanks for approving my Thread.

I found a fix, seems like my Drive Sector size is more than 512.

This skse plugin fixed the problems i had.

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/71567?tab=posts

 

[z929669]

4 hours ago, moarSmokes said:

Hi, thanks for approving my Thread.

I found a fix, seems like my Drive Sector size is more than 512.

This skse plugin fixed the problems i had.

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/71567?tab=posts

 

Thanks for posting the fix.

Evidently, newer hard drives seem to ship with 4 Kb sectors. This is strange, since that wastes more disk space, because each file spans one or more sectors, and no two files can occupy a given sector. So essentially, you could waste up to 4 Kb for a given file as opposed to 512 b. Lots of small files waste more space than fewer large files.

[moarSmokes]

I use storage spaces for my hdds and ssds, this might be the cause of the 4Mb sectors.

PS> fsutil fsinfo sectorInfo S:
LogicalBytesPerSector :                                 4096
PhysicalBytesPerSectorForAtomicity :                    4096
PhysicalBytesPerSectorForPerformance :                  4096
FileSystemEffectivePhysicalBytesPerSectorForAtomicity : 4096
Device Alignment :                                      Aligned (0x000)
Partition alignment on device :                         Aligned (0x000)
No Seek Penalty
Trim Supported
Not DAX capable
Is Thinly-Provisioned, SlabSize :                       268.435.456 bytes (256,0 MB)
PS> fsutil fsinfo sectorInfo H:
LogicalBytesPerSector :                                 4096
PhysicalBytesPerSectorForAtomicity :                    4096
PhysicalBytesPerSectorForPerformance :                  4096
FileSystemEffectivePhysicalBytesPerSectorForAtomicity : 4096
Device Alignment :                                      Aligned (0x000)
Partition alignment on device :                         Aligned (0x000)
Performs Normal Seeks
Trim Supported
Not DAX capable
Is Thinly-Provisioned, SlabSize :                       268.435.456 bytes (256,0 MB)

 

[z929669]

Makes sense. I think larger sectors do offer better HDD seek/write times (probably not SSD though)

[Mousetick]

1 hour ago, z929669 said:

Evidently, newer hard drives seem to ship with 4 Mb sectors. This is strange, since that wastes more disk space, because each file spans one or more sectors, and no two files can occupy a given sector. So essentially, you could waste up to 4 Mb for a given file as opposed to 512 Kb. Lots of small files waste more space than fewer large files.

The large sectors are 4 KB (4096 bytes) large, not 4 MB . Regular/legacy sectors are 512 bytes.

In terms of disk space usage and waste, there is actually no difference between the 2, because the OS allocates and manages space by blocks, not by sectors. Block size is typically 4 KB (i.e. 1 large sector or 8 regular/legacy sectors), or sometimes larger.

Taken on a 512-byte sector disk:

[z929669]

2 hours ago, Mousetick said:

The large sectors are 4 KB (4096 bytes) large, not 4 MB .

Yeah, I'm losing brainpower at EOD. Will correct.

[shadowhand]

OMG! I am so grateful that this worked. I could not understand why some sounds were not playing. I had installed the game on a M2 SSD and had no idea. Thanks everyone for this amazing community. I can finally play my game!

[Deadfire]

To assist others who happen on this thread and how to find hard disk sector size on Windows (Taken from this page):

Find sector size using the System Information utility

1. Open the Windows System Information utility.
2. In the System Information window, in the left navigation menu, click the + (plus) symbol next to Components.
3. Click the + symbol next to Storage.
4. Click the Disks option under Storage.
5. Find the Bytes/Sector entry on the window's right side. The number next to that entry is the size of each sector on the hard drive.

Find sector size using the fsutil command

1. Open the Windows command line with admin privileges. (When opening the Windows command line, select the Run as administrator option to get admin privileges in the command line.)
2. In the command line window, type:

   fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo <driver_letter>

   where <driver_letter> is the driver letter of the hard drive you want to view the sector size.
3. Press Enter to execute the fsutil command.
4. In the command output, locate the Bytes Per Sector entry, which displays the sector size for that hard drive.