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    Skyrim dialog volume on L702X

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by robcope, Jan 22, 2012.

  1. robcope

    robcope Notebook Evangelist

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    Well, I imagine most of you have figured this out, but for the few like me that haven't.

    I was having trouble hearing the dialog in Skyrim. All my other games were fine and for the life of me I couldn't understand why.

    If you go to the Dell audio button on the top left above the keyboard and enter the maxx audio settings, go to speakers/headphones and select maxxdialog the low dialog issue is solved.

    Option #2: Go to the same tab in Dell audio and use the drop down menu and switch to gaming.
     
    robcope, Jan 22, 2012
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    zjacobss Notebook Consultant

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    what is maxxdialog actually for?
     
    zjacobss, Jan 22, 2012
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    robcope Notebook Evangelist

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    Apparently it raises the dialog volume. I could always hear the fighting and music great, but never the talking and this cleared is up. I actually felt silly when I figured it out lol
     
    robcope, Jan 22, 2012
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    Great tip, I'll be sure to enable that when I install Skyrim soon
     
    Darkfly, Jan 23, 2012
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    doesn't technically fix all of the skyrim volume issues as there's a problem with realtek audio devices and skyrim apparently

    can temporarily fix the skyrim volume issues by right clicking the audio icon in the windows taskbar

    go to playback devices, double click the speakers icon (should have a description of realtek audio) click on the enhancements tab then enable the box for "loudness equalisation"

    this will make skyrim sound 10x better/louder... although it's just too loud for everything else ;-)
     
    Jon vMagic, Jan 23, 2012
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    robcope Notebook Evangelist

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    The fix I did made it perfect for me as I listen to it with the volume pretty low because I play while sitting in the living room with the family.
     
    robcope, Jan 23, 2012
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