These may or may not be exclusive to the PC. Mostly asking to figure out if these are caused by my PC or if they're general bugs that happen to everyone.


1) Skyrim is SOOO QUIET. Usually I have my Speakers at about 33% volume level for everything else, but Skyrim requires 66% to be heard normally

2) Sometimes when someone's talking, their words will randomly be cut out. For example, Braith says "I'm not afraid of you, yknow, even if you are my elder," but sometimes it'll briefly cut out so it sounds like "I_______ afraid of you, yknow, even if you are my elder." Sometimes the results are hysterical; I forget who, but one guy got cut out in such a way that made it sound like he just went "Derp?" when I passed him by. Still, it's a weird occurance.

3) In areas with lots of candles or lighting, my FPS absolutely dives. Generally my FPS is around 30, but in some areas with heavy amounts of candles (typically dungeons, though I forget which), my FPS will plummit down to 6 or 7 or 10 until I leave the immediate area. This could be particular to my PC, as my PC said it was best for high graphics settings but I insisted on the Highest settings. Nevertheless, I'm curious how common this is, because while my standard FPS is likely a result of playing with higher settings, the drop I get around heavily lit rooms is VERY dramatic.

Anyone else experience these or is it just me?

1) must be exclusive to your speakers, I don't notice anything
2)I noticed that once or twice in oblivion and fallout 3 each, but haven't in Skyrim
3)Sorry, you should try lowering the settings. I always have to do this during the major Civil War quests

For number 3, I don't lag during big battles. It's specifically candles and incredibly well-lit areas.

Hm, maybe mods that make lighting more dynamic

Dialogue sound cutting out happens to me all the time. I've only really noticed it during NPC "greetings", not during quest dialogue or while in dialogue menus.

1.) Nope
2.) Nope
3.) Nope

Xbox 360 Version here

1) This might help:
http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/198456-skyrim-audio-issue-incredibly-quiet-game.html

2) Yeah, this happens to me aswell. But not just smaller fractions of their sentences, entire lines
go unspoken. Strange and annoying.

3) I'm suspecting this is because of the shadowcasting omni-lights in the game. There are two main types of light in Skyrim: the ones that
cast shadows, and the ones that don't. The ones that don't are great for lighting up an area, and don't really have an impact on framerate,
however, they don't really set the mood in-game, as they don't cast shadows. The shadowcasting lights have a way bigger hit on framerate,
and you usually wouldn't place more than 2 or 3 within one room. I suggest lowering the quality of the shadows and lighting to combat these
pesky shadowcasters, but I'm not sure...

Oh, and for the record, my computer also suggested that I should go with the settings on high, but my framerate svcked, so I lowered
the settings to somewhere between medium and high - after a hour or so, you won't even be able to tell the difference, and your framerate
becomes much, much better. Morale of the story is, don't trust the automatic settings!