CrimsonGuardian Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 Your Skyrim game doesn't have any sound effects? This fix is for you. The reason it does that is simple but the explanation not much so. Most likely, you have Skyrim installed outside of your main drive or perhaps even on an external HDD. Many games including AC: Unity and AC: Origins simply cannot load sound files stored outside of the main drive.The fix is simple, we're gonna move the sound files to the main drive and create a symbolic link.*1. First of download and install Link Shell Extension which can be found here http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension.html*2. Navigate to your Skyrm/Data folder and look for a file named Skyrim - Sounds.bsa. Copy this file and paste it somewhere on your main drive.*3. Delete Skyrim - Sounds.bsa from the Data folder*4. Go back to where you copied Skyrim - Sounds.bsa on your main drive. Right click on it and you should see an option that says "Pink Link Source". Click that.*5. Go back to your Skyrim/Data folder. Right click anywhere and choose "Drop As" and then "Symbolic Link" You will see your sounds file with a shortcut symbol. You know it works when you do.Et voila! Your issue should be fixed. What we did is very simple. We kept most of the game files in the same location but moved the sound files to the main drive where Skyrim likes them to be. We then created a link so your Skyrim game can go and get these files in the main drive.This works for both the standard and Special Edition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
almond017 Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 OMG! it's works! I mean my case is the Skyrim-sound.bsa is not the only problem. it was include Skyrim-sound.bsa, Skyrim-voice.bsa, Skyrim-voice extra.bsa but anyway i've try like you said, and i hope that it will be work. and Now it work perfectly. I think this is the Best solution than the others. thanks bro, Thank you so much. wow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkshanker91 Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 It Works! It works! Oh my god it freaking works! I've been looking for a fix for this for life three years! You have no idea how happy I am right now that I can keep my C: drive clear of games! Thank you so much for this, you have no idea how happy I am right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suomikarhu5 Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 Thank you it worked. What a pain this bug ridden mess can be sometimes. Why exactly does it happen with certain drives? For me the sounds worked perfectly on my C drive and all the other internal HDD drives but the moment I installed Skyrim on an internal M.2 SSD it broke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FigSquad Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 I can Confirm this solution still works as of 6/14/2020. Thank you so much, it;s been such a pain having no weapon noises. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mora021 Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 yes this works!! also I have made the same thing for the skyrim - voice file, so I can hear my character shouting fus roh dah for the first time since forever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuntherStolz Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 (edited) I have Skyrim on my Bootcamped Macbook. I don't HAVE any other drive other than the Bootcamp C: drive. Is there any other way to fix this? Edited August 16, 2020 by GuntherStolz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badicus2005 Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 Very happy that it works,was very confused when there was no sound Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whynotmorebacon Posted May 22, 2021 Share Posted May 22, 2021 This actually works, and is very easy to do even if you are a novice at these types of things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Covenmouse Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 Can confirm this 100% works and it's super simple to set up. Thank you so much! This was driving me buggy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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