And here I thought it was just me encountering problems with that option. Whew.
Wonder if anyone created a 'mod' of silent sound clips for those that don't have a mic. Some sort of universal resource so that if you happen to have a lot of mods installed, you're not also getting a ton of silent sound clips from all those mods.
If you realy cannot get the use-subtitles flag to work I sugest that you activate all subtiles - its a "hidden" option in game menu option.
If you find quest dialogues not starting at all, call the dialogues from another quests dialogue that does work - its a horrid tacky fix but seems to be the only way with such corrupt???????? quests.
I strongly suspect that the problems I am getting are instalation sw or hw dependant - this ocurrs in Fallout3, requiring that some users of new content mods use a special tool that modifies the instalation, although there were real CS failures in FalloutNV that required special ESP and BSA modding tools to deal with. I dont know how the papyrus compiler (probaly generating tokenised script) works but I would not be surprised if it perfrmed differently on some microprocessors. There is also a question of wether everyone in the English speaking world gets the same instalation(s) or wether there are regional - sales distribution - varients.
My whole point of starting this thread was to get the ear of Bethesda to deal with what I believe to be real issues, someting which I have clearly failed to do.