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[Stinkface27]

Pretty much what the title says. I've turned everthing to maximum, in game and out of game. Every other application runs at normal volume, just Dragon Age 2 is abnormally quiet.

Sorry if this was posted already, I looked around in the first 5 pages and could not find a fix.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[dinria]

Dragon age 2 have a pretty low default sound (I use volume 14 instead of the normal 10) so I recommend you to raise the sound on your speakers and lower the volume on you other applications.

[Maegorod]

What I sometimes have with games is that the sound suddenly drops from normal to very low, so when this happened I alt+tabbed out of the game and checked my sound settings ("Mixer", where you can see the volume for every application (see screenie)), and put it back to normal because it would be almost at the bottom



don't know if this is your exact problem though..

Modifié par Maegorod, 11 mars 2011 - 01:01 .

[DPB]

I had this problem in the demo, and checking 'force stereo sound' fixed it. It might work in the full game too.

[Stinkface27]

Thank you very much for the excellent suggestions, everyone.

@Dinria - I have my headphone volume set to max and my speaker volume set to max and the problem persists. I've got everything else turned off so the volume of other applications isn't related, the only reason I mentioned it was to eliminate the possibility of a problem with my speakers/headphones/computer.

@Maegorod - Thank you, I really appreciate you demonstrating that. Unfortunately I don't have Windows 7 and I don't believe there is an advanced mixer like that for XP with sliders for individual programs. Unless there is one that I don't know about? I can't seem to find one.

@dbankier - As did I, and I thought it might be fixed up for the full game. I have the forced stereo sound enabled already.

[Maegorod]

Stinkface27 wrote...

@Maegorod - Thank you, I really appreciate you demonstrating that. Unfortunately I don't have Windows 7 and I don't believe there is an advanced mixer like that for XP with sliders for individual programs. Unless there is one that I don't know about? I can't seem to find one.

You are correct, there is no such slider in windows XP (I didn't know that, my bad). You can try and use a program like www.indievolume.com/ to change the volume of individual programs in windows XP (not free software, 2 week-trail though)... I never used it though, so no experience at all with it, might be worth a shot if you don't mind the hassle of downloading/installing it

Of course it could be something completely different....so I hope you get it fixed!

Modifié par Maegorod, 11 mars 2011 - 02:25 .

[CamouflageUK]

I have a similar problem here (Win XP). I finished installing some 30 mins ago and on first play the dialogue volume was very low despite being set to max. I use 5.1 surround not headphones so I played with the speaker setups and found using 4 speakers increased the dialogue volume. All other sounds are not a problem.
Playing the demo once again and there was no problem with any of the sound levels even with 5.1. Any reason for a drop in quality from a demo to a full game? I would have expected it to be the other way around.

[TrappedCreos]

I have this same exact problem, and I do have Windows 7, Games volume slider is at max, windows volume maxed and headset volume maxed and I can barely hear the game, ingame sliders max and i've tried with force stereo on and off

[TrappedCreos]

Bump, could still use help with this issue, i've tried everything I can think of, just cant hear the game while all other sounds in windows are deafening

[sami jo]

I've had a similar problem in Windows 7 64 bit but with the volume changing at odd intervals. Some dialogues and sound effects are at normal volume, others are barely audible and it changes at random. It is most common in the party banters, but it has happened in combat, in cut scenes, in conversations between Hawke and characters and just wandering around.

[mithrril]

I have this problem as well. The thing is that I didn't have any issues with the sound when I first got the game and played it on Vista. I just got a new computer today that has Windows 7 64 bit and now the sound is incredibly low on that game and nothing else.

[Ealdred]

I am also having this problem, Windows 7 64 bit aswell. I had hoped the slider suggestion might be the solution, but no such luck.

[Stinkface27]

@Maegorod - thank you, again! I'll look into that program.

I see I'm not the only one with this problem, though. It would be nice to know if Bioware is working on a solution for this. I'm getting a headache from straining so hard to hear everything, lol.

[komradeK]

I also had this problem, the volume would drop during battles and basically stay there. I corrected it by enabling Loudness Equalization in the Control Panel. It may be called Volume Normalizer or something similar depending on your hardware/drivers.

Good luck!

Modifié par komradeK, 13 mars 2011 - 02:57 .

[TrappedCreos]

Loudness Equalization worked for me and fixed my problem, can hear the game fine now, thanks

Modifié par TrappedCreos, 13 mars 2011 - 08:34 .

[Riaktion_EA account]

Enabling Loudness Equalisation worked for me too. Thanks komradek for that

[KiLLLLeR150]

I'd like to try that option but it doesn't exist for me.
Maybe it's because I'm using a sound card? (Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium)
I have Windows 7 Professional 64-bit as well.

[Stinkface27]

Well I don't have Windows 7 at all so that's not an option =/ I checked out my sound settings and there's nothing like it, either.

[Gascogne]

Stinkface27 wrote...

Well I don't have Windows 7 at all so that's not an option =/ I checked out my sound settings and there's nothing like it, either.

I have Windows 7 but I do not have that option on my soundcard. <_<
Very annoying that the game have very low sound..

[Mongoose22]

KiLLLLeR150 wrote...

I'd like to try that option but it doesn't exist for me.
Maybe it's because I'm using a sound card? (Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium)
I have Windows 7 Professional 64-bit as well.

The X-Fi should have an equivalent setting, something like Sound Volume Management (SVM).  I have that on my X-Fi XtremeMusic card.

Modifié par Mongoose22, 20 mars 2011 - 09:48 .

[izmirtheastarach]

Thanks to all the people on this thread for the tip about volume equalization. Played through the whole game with headphones on stereo only, but with that one setting changed, it sounds great on my 5.1 now.

[MaxPayne37]

Maegorod wrote...

What I sometimes have with games is that the sound suddenly drops from normal to very low, so when this happened I alt+tabbed out of the game and checked my sound settings ("Mixer", where you can see the volume for every application (see screenie)), and put it back to normal because it would be almost at the bottom



don't know if this is your exact problem though..

I have this problem as well, and after checking, this isn't the issue. It's really annoying on a laptop when your only way of volume control is the system one.

EDIT: Force Stereo Sound fixed my issue, thanks

Modifié par MaxPayne37, 23 mars 2011 - 12:53 .

[Serefinn]

komradeK wrote...

I also had this problem, the volume would drop during battles and basically stay there. I corrected it by enabling Loudness Equalization in the Control Panel. It may be called Volume Normalizer or something similar depending on your hardware/drivers.

Good luck!

Fixed it. Thanks dude 

Edit: Well I think it's fixed, the case used to be that dialogue and cutscenes were very quiet, while combat was a lot louder, now it's the opposite; dialogue and cutscenes are 'normal' volume while it gets quieter when in combat ... is that how it's meant to be?

Modifié par Serefinn, 24 mars 2011 - 04:51 .

[Atmos Dominus]

I found out the cause of this today. I first noticed this on DA2, but was also getting it in Skyrim so I decided it was something that had to be fixable. It was bugging me constantly having to workaround it. This *probably* only happens if you're using internal sound that uses the windows driver rather than an external card with its own software.

Anyway, in windows you need to open "playback devices" from the right click menu from the audio bubble in the taskbar on the bottom right. In that window go to the "communications tab" and you'll see that it says "When windows detects communications activity:" and "Reduce the volume of all other sounds by 80%" is selected by default. Change it to "do nothing" and you'll never have the problem again.

[Gorath Alpha]

There have been constant well-recorded, never corrected conflicts caused by the default Realtek audio drivers in Windows7, easily avoided by using the official drivers available from Realtek. Whether the symptom in this thread would respond equally well to disposing of Microsoft's default, I don't know -- I prefer discrete audio processing with included decoding hardware.