Sound Question

[brooklynslayer]

I had started with the trial of EQ2. Fayer and then purchased the game. One thing I noticed is that in the trial when I walked up to the characters who gave me quests I heard them speak. After installing the full game, for the intro world I don't hear the characters speak. Is there an issue with my sound ? I heard the music fine.

[Graywindnz]

<p>There should be a setting in the options menu. I know its there but for the life of me cant remember the exact place, and as I'm at work I cant check, you also might want to check that you have the optional voice packs downloaded. they don't cost anything, and can be found at the preferences at the patcher window </p>

[Finora]

<p>You might also want to check the ingame options menu (alt o) in the sound tab.</p><p>There is a check box in there that will set it so you will only hear voiceovers one time. That could cause what you are experiencing.</p><p>I have actually noticed in the past couple of days where I could not hear some voice overs, but if I stopped the dialogue and started it again it would work properly. No clue what could cause it so I suspected it was on my end, but it could be a bug (was only happening with quests in Kelethin). </p>

[DrkVsr]

<span style="font-size: small; color: #993300; font-family: comic sans ms,sand">Some quest givers simply don't have a voice-over, you hail them and they just 'hear' them hail you back and you have to actually read their info, not just old NPCs either: the Greenhood in Zek who gives you the 'Rescuing the Greenhood'/Sword of Ykesha HQ talks, while the newer NPC 'Angler' doesn't</span>

[ke'la]

<cite>DrkVsr wrote:</cite><blockquote><span style="font-size: small; color: #993300; font-family: comic sans ms,sand">Some quest givers simply don't have a voice-over, you hail them and they just 'hear' them hail you back and you have to actually read their info, not just old NPCs either: the Greenhood in Zek who gives you the 'Rescuing the Greenhood'/Sword of Ykesha HQ talks, while the newer NPC 'Angler' doesn't</span></blockquote> Accually its the Newer NPCs(especally the ones put in between Expantions) that are less likly to have voice overs. All the Quest giving NPCs that where in game at Launch had Voice Overs, however, as Voice Over recording is expencive and time consuming SoE desided on "lesser quests" and quests added between updates not to provide voice over except for the Standard "hail" responce... They are however slowly adding voices to the game for the lesser/older quests, if you have Optional Voice Downloads enabled. I know this because I resontly got Voiceover from a quest NPC that I know for a Fact did not have voice over last time I did that quest.

[Ebjelen]

<p>If these suggestions don't help you can do a full file scan. This fixes a LOT of problems.</p><p>After you login, from the screen where you see the red "Play" button, click the "Preferences" button and then select "Full File Scan."</p><p>You'll be asked to confirm the action and then the scan starts. Depending on your internet connection this could take anywhwhere from 5 to 30 minutes or more -- which is why they don't do it every login.</p>