Whenever I load up my game or occur to a cutscene, the volumn of the voice is so freakin low that I can barely hear that i have to almost max out my sound bar up to volume 32 (max volume).

I do not know what sound card you're using, but there should be an option called "Loudness equalization". Try enabling it, should help.

Yeah, the volume is too low during cutscenes. I'm sure the sound is bugged or glitched. I already experienced the game cutting off the sound completely after a cutscene several times.

It was an issue in Witcher 2 and now is in Witcher 3. But enabling loudness equalization in sound card settings fixes it.

In my game I have the default audio settings which set the volume levels all to 100% by default, and in Windows the volume of the mixer is set to 75% as it has since 2013 and is never touched ever. The volume of the game in the Windows mixer is also set to 75% and has not been touched. When the game plays all of the audio sounds as you would expect it to - it is all audible at an appropriate volume including the music, sound effects and voice dialogue.

Then - when a cut scene happens, randomly the audio of _just_ the voice dialogue cuts down to 1/2 to 1/3 of what it normally is making it impossible to hear what they're saying. The volume of the music and everything else is the same as it was before and has not changed at all. Thus this is one single element of the audio of the game lowering in-game while the audio of everything else in the game stays exactly the same. No settings in Windows or the game audio have been altered that could cause this to happen, and no other one of the 100+ games installed on the computer encounter audio errors like this.

So it has to be a bug in the game basically. It isn't a big issue to me right now because I can work around it by cranking the speakers up for the cut scene dialogue and then turning them back down for gameplay. If one was to actually go turn their volume up in Windows or muck with other settings that would probably also work, but then everything in Windows is going to be 200 decibels loud all the time and you'll have to go back in and turn it back off. It's easier for now to work around the problem by grabbing the volume knob on your speakers and twisting it just for the cut scenes and then dropping it back down again.

It's definitely not a end user misconfigured audio card settings problem in Windows though or it would be a problem in every game and application that uses audio and it wouldn't affect just the voice dialogue in one game, but would affect all audio in the game.

They will probably fix this in a future patch to the game I imagine especially since I've seen about 5 people mention it so far and I've experienced it myself twice. It's important also to note that it does not happen every single cut scene but rather it happens randomly.

Having said that, it's a relatively minor issue for me at the moment with a usable workaround for now and nothing I'll be blowing any steam over. :) But alas, definitely a game bug.

I have the same issue.

Just try this and set in-game volume to your liking. It works for me.
See pic.

i got that but still dosent work its a bug for sure i dont even have sound when people are talking

Yeah, it's a bug with sound leveling. As for no voice at all I haven't experienced it.

Hey excellent! I was fighting with not being able to hear things in this game too and checking that off seems to have fixed it up for me! Curious question about that though, will I notice any differences in anything else?

Yeah this is working well enough as a workaround until they patch the issue, cheers.

Same happens for me.

This might sound dumb, but I had the same problem, come to find out I'd bumped my Center Speaker connection and it was loose causing low voice sound. This game appears to pipe the voice through your center speaker, so changing your speaker configuration to 2.1 instead of 5.1 or something similar may fix it if it's not a Center speaker issue like mine was.

I finally fixed this. Loading screen audio was incredibly soft. Voices were a huge problem. I knew the problem was surround sound settings / center speaker issues - but I have a Digital Optical connection to a stereo setup. Witcher 3, for whatever reason, was sending a bad audio signal.

-=My System=-

Setup: Klipsch 20B soundbar connected via Digital Optical cable to MOBO audio ( Realtek ALC1150 )

My soundbar has Dolby Digital encoding in it, but the problem was it wasn't receiving Dolby Digital from the source (PC). My audio driver that came with my MOBO failed me in this regard, so I installed an unlocked version that DOES allow Dolby Digital. So now it sends the correct Dolby Digital signal to my (stereo) soundbar. The center speaker is no longer missing.

-=The Fix=-

Install unlocked Realtek Audio Drivers. Also applied the "Surround Sound Fix" for windows.

-==The Relevant Links==-

Unlocked Realtek Driver: https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/unlocked-realtek-hd-audio-drivers-windows-7-8-10-with-dolby-digital-live-and-dts-interactive.193148/

Surround Sound Windows Fix: https://www.reddit.com/r/witcher/comments/36h29c/surround_sound_51/crevdwh/

-=Making It Easy On You=-

I made my own instructions/package for everything. One-stop solution for anyone to download if they want things easier. If you don't trust my package, just download everything through the above Relevant Links.

It's short, easy, and simple. Uninstall old audio drivers, install new ones, change to test mode & sign dll, & copy/paste unlocked dll.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1tc4vsb0rz728og/Witcher%203%20low%20audio%20fix%204%20Digital%20Optical%20connection%204%20Windows%207%2C8%2C%20%26%2010.zip?dl=0

On a second computer, I also fixed this with an easier way (because the 2nd PC had a good sound card).


Setup: Two JBL speakers hooked up to a CLARO HALO XT sound card.

Fix: Open the Claro Halo app, and change "System Input" to "8 Ch"

Boom. Audio fixed.