Proton: Skyrim Special Edition: No Voices and Background music

[Anti-Ultimate]

The game boots up perfectly fine on my GTX970, runs a bit sluggish but it's missing the Music and Speech. Have only tested until character customization right now, but it worked well until that point.

According to https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=34366&iTestingId=102851

you need to install xact with winetricks to get working audio. Can this be included in Proton or is using stuff that winetricks does a nono?

EDIT: The game seems to ship with these libraries, as it does install the DirectX runtime at first launch.

[Anti-Ultimate]

I noticed this has already been reported

[E100Beta]

If you need temporary solution while this is being worked on, see https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/54 for how to use winetricks on proton prefix

[Anti-Ultimate]

I already did that, but it didn't seem to work for me @E100Beta

EDIT: That's probably because SSE uses a 64-bit executable which xact doesn't seem to work with.

[FreeLikeGNU]

Try this (no need to install xact, modify preset, etc)
right click the game in your library chose Properties and put this in Launch options:

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="xaudio2_7=n,b" %command%

[Anti-Ultimate]

@FreeLikeGNU doesn't work. Seems like FAudio is moving at a spectacular pace though, so maybe it'll be in Proton in a few days.

[vkk800]

This issue has been closed, but I still have the same problem. Is this being worked on?

[mpaccione]

Same.

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="xaudio2_7=n,b" %command%

Does not work for me. Is there a special thing I need to install for this to work?

I'm on Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS

[samrocketman]

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="xaudio2_7=n,b" %command%

works for me

Proton 5 and Ubuntu 18.04.5. AMD RX5700XT

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To be clear I used the command on _The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition_ which may be different than the original Skyrim release. It's Bethesda's "pay for community mods" money grab edition. The vanilla game still looks great without mods, though.