skyrim steam play issue

[Ashleyyyy]

so i installed the steam beta, and as a test i installed skyrim. the game runs but i can't hear any voices. like in the intro i only hear the horse. 

[Spotty]

You're testing the new Proton feature in Steam?
That sounds like pretty normal behaviour for a Bethesda game on any OS.

Check the audio settings and make sure it's not trying to do surround sound, as I had a similar problem with audio in Skyrim quite a while ago when my Centre speaker died and I could no longer hear NPC voices, but the rest of the game audio still played fine through Left/Right/Rear speakers. Seemed that the game tried to play any NPC audio through the centre channel. Fixed it by setting the audio to stereo mode and then voices were played through left/right speakers.

[Ashleyyyy]

1 hour ago, Spotty said:

You're testing the new Proton feature in Steam?

yes

 

1 hour ago, Spotty said:

That sounds like pretty normal behaviour for a Bethesda game on any OS.

Check the audio settings and make sure it's not trying to do surround sound, as I had a similar problem with audio in Skyrim quite a while ago when my Centre speaker died and I could no longer hear NPC voices, but the rest of the game audio still played fine through Left/Right/Rear speakers. Seemed that the game tried to play any NPC audio through the centre channel. Fixed it by setting the audio to stereo mode and then voices were played through left/right speakers.

how do i configure that?

[Spotty]

Just now, firelighter487 said:

how do i configure that?

Just the OS audio/speaker settings.
Not sure if Skyrim has an option for stereo/surround in its in-game audio settings, but have a look.

[Ashleyyyy]

21 minutes ago, Spotty said:

Just the OS audio/speaker settings.

i have it set to "digital stereo"... i suppose it's digital because it's over hdmi...