scott91575

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i can hear them if they give me a one line response or are talking to another character, but if we have a conversation (when i have the ability to talk as well) i cant hear a single sound coming from the character. I have the volume all the way up.

All other sounds are great and sound awesome.

I had the same thing happen in Fallout 3.  I could hear everything except when a NPC was talking directly to me.  Sadly, it's been so long I forget how I fixed it.  Yet it was an issue with my sound settings on my computer and there was no dialog coming out my center speaker (where all speech directed to the player comes out).  If I remember correctly, before I fixed that, I just changed out of 5.1 mode and it worked fine in stereo.  No real surround, but at least I could hear the voice acting.

How did I fix it?  It's been so long it's hard to remember.  I think it was a Windows setting (under audio hardware), and I think it was somthing like my hardware was not set to 5.1.  For some reason everything but Fallout worked fine up until then.  I think I spent a ton of time on my Realtec settings, and everything checked out ok.  In the end it was some simple Windows audio hardware setting that only screwed things up in Fallout.  Not sure why.  I remember it not making sense since 5.1 worked in all my other games.

So I would go to your audio hardware settings in Windows, go through all the tabs, and make sure it all makes sense.  I will see if I can remember any more info.  In the mean time you might want to try and change the audio settings out of 5.1.

The only other thing I can think of is updating audio drivers.  I really, really want to say it was a Windows update that changed something, and either changing a Windows settings or updating my drivers fixed it. 

edit:  Just to walk you through something....go to your audio hardware under control panel (Control Panel/Hardware and Sound/Sound in Windows 7, not sure about other Windows OS's, but should be something similar).  Right click on Speakers/Headphones and go to configure speakers.  Set it to 5.1 if you have a 5.1 system, or stereo if you have only 2 speakers.  I am pretty sure this is what I did, but I do recall also updating my audio drivers.  I would try both.  The very last thing I can think of is making sure your sampling rate is set correctly also.  Make sure it's set to DVD quality.  I know I have screwed around with that in the past and it messed up my audio, yet I don't think that is the issue here.  Yet worth a look to make sure.

edit2:  Last thing, make sure your ini files are correct.  I believe another issue I have heard about is the ini files do not get updated correctly from the game.  There should be an audio setting and a number.  Make sure that correlates to what you want (you will have to look that up, or you could just try different numbers starting at 0).