Sean Bean gone

[wam]

Sean Beans voice doesn't work for me all the time. Every 4 or 5 times I start the game, his voice isn't there. Not on loading screen, not in game.

Apparently Sean Bean is very busy with all the people playing this game and hasn't got time to voice everyones game at once or he died already in the game.
But all joking aside, has anyone else experienced this and/or found a solution?

 

[Woefdram]

Same problem here. Not only Sean, but also the female voice that does the advisor. They actually *can* be heard, but very, very faint. As if they're in the next room.

I tried working around it by turning speech volume to 100% and the rest way down. Doesn't seem to change a bit.

 

[Woefdram]

Searching some more on this forum brought me to this thread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/help-audio-problems.600491/

Problem in my case was that Windows was still configured for a 5.1 set, but the 2 rear speakers are not connected. I switched to normal stereo and the problem is gone.

 

[SammyKhalifa]

Yeah. I have a 5.1 system, but noticed the same thing. Is the voice only in the center channel? I'll probably just have to turn it up . . .

 

[Woefdram]

Not really sure, I assume the voices should be coming somewhere "above" (like in "voice over" I guess), as opposed to sounds coming from the map itself. You can only do that if you have rear speakers. So if your mixer sends 3/4 of the volume of the voices to speakers that simply aren't there, you lose about 3/4 of the total volume.

I'll connect those 2 rear speakers again soon, switch back to 5.1 and check how things are then.

You could switch to stereo and see what happens. May not be exactly what you want, but at least it's better than hardly/not hearing those voices.

Maybe it's one of the many, many bugs in the game.