The sound of footsteps is totally absent in my game for both myself and NPC's.

I've created different characters of different races. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the game data and of course i've fiddled around with the audio options a hundred times, but nothing works.

The 'Footsteps' slider does nothing, whether set to min/max or anything in between.

It makes no difference what armour i'm wearing on my feet either. I've continued to play with one character for around 45 hours and the problem has persisted.

Has anyone here experienced a similar thing?.

Well after further messing around I can finally hear the sound of footsteps in my game...

Unfortunately, even with the 'Effects' and 'Footsteps' sliders at maximum ('Footsteps' by itself does nothing) they're very quiet and as soon as enviromental effects such as running water make themselves heard (or voices, music or whatever) then the footsteps are completely drowned out.