VexedVirtuoso Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 Hi all, I'm currently dealing with possibly the worst and most pervasive Skyrim bug I've seen since launch: without warning, for no discernible reason, my audio will stop completely. This seems to be due to things loading or scripts running: if I stand still, it doesn't happen until I move a short distance, at which point audio will start stuttering and if I move too far too quickly it'll stop, or if I change cells it'll stop instantly. Casting a script-heavy spell also causes it to stop immediately. The most frustrating thing about this is that I didn't even add any mods when it started happening. I have tried removing some script-heavy mods, lowering my draw distance, playing fullscreen/windowed/borderless, closing background applications or even playing sound from one, disconnecting and reconnecting my audio interface, reinstalling my audio and video drivers, and praying to whatever digigod might be listening. Nothing I do seems to fix it. I'm probably just going to nuke it and start from scratch, again, but if anyone has any ideas as to what fixes might work, I would greatly appreciate them. I'm losing my mind over here. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anjenthedog Posted April 20, 2023 Share Posted April 20, 2023 Hmm... ideas... Ok. I'll bite. idk. maybe it's your sound system, (sound card, connector malfunction, dubious wiring, amp, headphones, etc) not the game? unless you're positive it's not, it might be a good idea to check that before nuking your installation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy1969 Posted April 20, 2023 Share Posted April 20, 2023 I had that problem also a few years ago, since back then I was too lazy to write solutions down I can't tell you exactly what I did, but I remember I changed some values in either skyrim.ini and/or skyrimprefs.ini or both of them pertaining to allow a bigger memory buffer for audio playback, I remember also searching for more than a day in google lol. So it's definitely fixable without having to reinstall anything. So maybe look in google for skyrim audio memory increase or somethiong among those lines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VexedVirtuoso Posted April 20, 2023 Author Share Posted April 20, 2023 Hmm... ideas... Ok. I'll bite. idk. maybe it's your sound system, (sound card, connector malfunction, dubious wiring, amp, headphones, etc) not the game? unless you're positive it's not, it might be a good idea to check that before nuking your installation Yeah, that's what I thought too. I checked all of this first - I'm a musician with a home recording/production setup, and there are no issues anywhere in the pipeline that I can detect whatsoever as this bug does not occur in any other game or program. I had that problem also a few years ago, since back then I was too lazy to write solutions down I can't tell you exactly what I did, but I remember I changed some values in either skyrim.ini and/or skyrimprefs.ini or both of them pertaining to allow a bigger memory buffer for audio playback, I remember also searching for more than a day in google lol. So it's definitely fixable without having to reinstall anything. So maybe look in google for skyrim audio memory increase or somethiong among those lines. I'll do this, thanks. I already completely reinstalled and switched to a new mod manager and everything, problem still occurring, so I'll poke around the inis and see if I can find anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VexedVirtuoso Posted April 20, 2023 Author Share Posted April 20, 2023 I had that problem also a few years ago, since back then I was too lazy to write solutions down I can't tell you exactly what I did, but I remember I changed some values in either skyrim.ini and/or skyrimprefs.ini or both of them pertaining to allow a bigger memory buffer for audio playback, I remember also searching for more than a day in google lol. So it's definitely fixable without having to reinstall anything. So maybe look in google for skyrim audio memory increase or somethiong among those lines. I'll do this, thanks. I already completely reinstalled and switched to a new mod manager and everything, problem still occurring, so I'll poke around the inis and see if I can find anything. Interestingly, I found some related settings, such as uMaxAudioCacheSize, but they only appear in BethINI and their default values - in this case, 262,144 - don't make any sense as they're not an easy multiple of 8 so I've no idea to what unit they're referring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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