Sudden Sound Problems

[bigv32]

Ok, first off, I thought it was the one mod I downloaded, but I disabled all mods and started a new game. The problem still persists. I even tried a DX10 trick I found online, but it still did not help.

 

The problem is that NPC's do not continue talking like they should. For instance, in the opening carriage scene, no one spoke to me the whole way to Helgen. (I was only able to advance by using the trick I will discribe below) When the Dragon showed up, I did not hear him do anything. After Helgen, on the way to Riverwood, when we got to the Gaurdians Stones, they were not there. They only appeared again after I did the trick below. A few more things:

 

On the way to Riverwood, we were attacked by wolves. All of a sudden, there was no noise except me swinging my sword. When I got to Riverwood, the guys blacksmith uncle was not present. The quest marker was where he was suppose to be, but there was no one there. Also, several other scripted events did not occur like they should have. For example, when you enter town for the first time, the old lady there says she saw a dragon and gets in an arguement with her son over it. This did not happen until I did the trick below.

 

 

The Trick (a very short and quick fix. it does not work for long)

 

All I had to do to get things to advance was to pause the game. However, sometimes it would take two or three pauses to get them to work. For example, to get the dialog to begin in the carrage, I had to pause after every couple of lines. To get the gaurdian stones to appear, it took a couple of pauses. When the wolves attacked, when I unpaused the game, I got all of the sound I should have gotten. The issue was it all came at once as one noise. In Riverwood, the uncle appeared after I paused.

 

Update: I wanted to see what other affects this problem was causing. When I walk down the road to WhiteRun, nothing updates. What I mean is the normal scene where that giant is fighting the companions does not happen. In fact, no one is there. The map is just blank.

 

 

Has anyone had this problem or know of a way to fix it? I have done everything from reinstalling to disabling all my mods. I would just like to make sure what I have done is clear. This problem persists after a clean install AND no mods installed. I have read it is something to do with the latest patch, but I can't comment on that since I do not know when my skyrim updated (I believe it did it automatically) nor do I know if I played the game after this update was installed. Today was the first time I noticed the problem, but I have not seriously played the game for a week or two due to RL and making my own mods.

 

Thanks for your help.

[bigv32]

Update: I found another video on youtube that said I should try to update my DX10, but I did that and it still does not work.