How to solve Skyrim/SSE no Sound on Windows 10 bootcamp

[TobiWahn]

Thanks you sooooooo much!!!!

[zinghunt]

 

Thanks SteveTheJedi for the macrumors walkthrough - seems to be working for me on a 2019 16" MBP.

 

Also a couple notes for others, I wanted to keep the game on the C: drive and just move the audio files, basically worked. A few notes though:

• I made a 4GB virtual drive for the files, which is now about 75% full with the core game audio BSAs.
• I first moved just the Data\Skyrim - Sounds.bsa which fixed combat sounds and music, then Data\Sykrim - Voices_en0.bsa which fixed the shout voice.
• I also tried to symlink the entire Data\sound directory just to be safe, which contains extra sounds from mods. This worked, but Vortex won't deploy to the virtual drive (I think because Vortex uses hard symlinks which need to be on the same disk partition.?.). So if you're using Vortex and having issues with mod sounds too, I'm guessing it would work to just move the whole game and Vortex onto a bigger virtual drive so that everything runs on the same partition.

 

Hi there,

do you know if all sounds files are affected ? You said you moved all your audio files from mods as well. I already moved and linked some of the basic audio content like the default ones and the unofficial HQ music and voices, and now I'm wondering if mods like Immersive Sounds Compendium and Audio Overhaul will need to be moved and symlinked as well ? I guess I could just do like you did and move everything preventively on the drive I use but creating symlinks for many files is a bit of a hassle -_- Thx

[filap5]

can you not just install the game on your C drive ive only ever had this problem now that its not installed on my c drive

i just tried it and this did fix the problem luckily the game is only 10 gigs so if you can make space on your C drive then you should be able to just install Skyrim se on there and the problem should be solved and you wont have to go thought all the trouble of making a virtual drive or liniking it

[AddForm]

Maybe a stupid question: could my audio overhaul mod overwrite the Skyrim Data sound, should I create a virtual link for the mod sounds as well? Voice and shouts work in the game but not weapon sounds.

[brain0uk]

There are many topics about how to fix the no sound issue in Skyrim and Skyrim SE on Windows 10 however these don't really seem to actually answer the question just give hope :D

 

If you're having this problem then this is what's effected:

 

âNo player voice

No weapon sound effect

âNo music

âNo Shout voices

etc....

 

 

 

âThere was one ingenious guy who actually solved the problem by creating a syslink or a system link to files that are on an external hard drive that he connected through usb-c... I tried this advice or just plan ran the game from my external hard drive and it worked. The music was back in game and so were player voices and weapon sound effects.

 

However this proved to be very slow and with like nearly 200 mods on my system that included bruma + vigilant+ npc enhancements + my own mods I created it was becoming a bit aggravating having ... this... constant... stutter ....

 

âThe two suggestions while they work are very time consuming so what I did was create a virtual drive and move both steam and skyim's (Which are in the same folder) to this virtual drive and I'm happy to say everything works.

Fix:

1. Open Computer management and click storage

2.click on disk management

â3. go to actions ---> Click on create new VHD (virtual hard drive)

â4.When this menu appears choose a location for your VHD and then approx size (I said 65GB) click VHDX (supports lots of space) then Dynamic Scaling (grows in size as needed)

â5.Look on back at the screen click which ever new disk has been created disk 0 is your primary drive disk 1 is new. Right click over the name "Disk 1" click initialize disk choose MBR for master boot record (this is what skyrim is looking for.

6. Move your Skyrim and Steam install to that newly created drive.

â***Your saves will still be located in your documents and will be read by Skyrim as well any other skyrim stuff there.

7.Play :smile:

 

thanks for this, although i just moved the sound file and done a symbolic link in CMD

 

Edited August 24, 2021 by brain0uk

[HaveSomeRekage]

thank you so much, f*#@ this took me forever to find.

[natalikesweeties]

Thank you so much for posting this. I ended up just moving the sounds.bsa file onto an external drive and created a symbolic link because my mac kept deleting my VHDX every time I restarted! But I was led down the right path so thank you!