Bizarre sound problem

[erc1971]

So, I launched Oblivion and despite making no changes I have a weird sound problem....

 

The sound works, except for 3 specific cases:

 

1: Once I click on an NPC to enter the dialogue box, it display's their text and their mouth moves, but I do not hear their voice.  (NPC's still talk when I am walking by them however)

 

2: When I click on a door that takes me to a different zone, the door open sound does not play.  (When I click on a door that opens but keeps me in the same zone, I heard the sound.)

 

3: When loot an item from a chest or corpse, it makes no sound when I take it.

 

I made no changes to Oblivion, I even went back and restored an old backup that the sound worked on, same issue.  Even started a new game in case was in the save files, did not help.

 

Any ideas before I reinstall Oblivion?

 

Eric

[gregathit]

When you restored from your backup.....did you replace your oblivion.ini file that is in your my games folder?

Also, have you started a new game?

[erc1971]

When you restored from your backup.....did you replace your oblivion.ini file that is in your my games folder?

Also, have you started a new game?

 

Yes and Yes

[erc1971]

It is not an Oblivion problem.  I deleted and re-installed vanilla Oblivion - same issue.  So something with my computer is causing the issue.