Missing sound effects during combat. No own sound effects, only monsters and environment.

Hi all,

since the 3.1 update I have problems with my sounds.
When I am in combat with high density (breach for example) my own sound effects (e.g. sunder sound effect) are muted. That is really annyoing, as I was relying on the sounds. Now I never really know if I am attacking or maybe frozen or out of mana.... etc.
And it just feels "wrong" to not hear yourself.

When I am in my hideout or in maps (but not in combat) I can hear all my sound effects.

So I thought maybe I need to turn the channel count to High in the sound options - but that doesnt make a difference.
I use RealTek High Definition Audio, the driver seems to be up to date.

Any solution for that?
Last bumped on Dec 11, 2017, 5:46:05 AM
Hey, does it sound similar to what is described here?

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2039441

If so, please chime in there too - hopefully if we get many people in one thread, devs will notice it faster.
Last edited by LaplaceNoMa#3989 on Dec 10, 2017, 1:19:50 AM
Yes, that sounds actually exactly like what I am experiencing.
I found out that the sound effects keep playing when I turn the music volume to 0.
So it might really be a channel count issue.

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