Skyrim Audio Issue: Incredibly quiet game.

I fixed this problem for me - maybe it will help others. First I loaded my game, then I alt tabbed to desktop. I right clicked on the speaker icon on the taskbar.

Choose "Open Volume Mixer".

Skyrim should be one of the Icons. Adjust the sound here.

If this does not work. Try clicking the speaker button, the speaker properties window should appear.

Click on Levels tab

and then balance.


Increase the level of where your speaker or headphones plug in. A little experimenting here should make the speech and other noises in Skyrim so much louder. It was such a difference I was blown away Hope this helps.

how would this look on windows xp?

Depends if you have the right hardware or not. But I think I tried it on XP for a bit, before I quit playing it not too long afterwords. And it worked fine.