I am not sure what happened, but after playing Reach in the MCC with a friend using an XBoxOneX just fine, he asked for help in Halo 2. As soon as the Halo 2 mission started, I had no sound whatsoever. Did a few experiments and discovered that in Halo 3 and Reach my sound works fine, but no sound in Halo 1 & 2. I even used an XBoxOneS in my bedroom as a farther experiment with the same results. My friend had no such issues, so I am assuming there is some setting that got turned on, but I can’t find anything in the menu that lets me mess with in game sound effects or music to correct it with. Can anyone help?
Hey Orion, I’m pasting the below on every forum I see with the audio issue. I had the same problems and was able to fix it by slightly modifying what an original poster talked about. Do the below, and your audio will come right back! Enjoy:
Hey guys, do the below that I came up with. It’s fixed it right up for me and others. I posted this in the Halo 2 MCC No Sound forum which has over 100 replies. If this also works for you, maybe the moderators can post it separately at the top of the MCC Support forums so people can see it as a workaround quicker. My audio has worked perfectly everywhere since doing this. Here it is, and you don’t have to own the PC version as well:
THIS IS A FIX FOR ALL XBOX ONLY MCC PLAYERS!!
Hey folks, I 100% can confirm I had the same audio issues start this week. But, I solved it, no PC version needing to also be bought!! A previous poster mentioned about deleting saves, and it works entirely for me now, all games, and not just once! Do this:
Again, I ONLY have the XBox One version.
- If Halo 1 and 2 audio wasn’t working for you after pausing, like myself, I deleted all saved data while online still, even the 4 GB reserved data. I should mention you’ll want to have closed the game beforehand.
- Went offline in settings. Then execute a full restart of the console.
- Once rebooted, the system is still offline. Boot up MCC and the game will say it cannot find save data. This is okay. I booted up both Halo 1 or 2 to test at this point. All audio, cutscenes and all, SHOULD be back now and remain even if you pause and come back.
- Now, while still in game, go back to your settings on console and go back online and let it connect. Going back to the game, audio was still working. I saved and quit. The one thing I did notice though is whichever game you choose to boot this from, mission progress only syncs up on that game and shows how many you’ve completed on that game only.
- All I did at this point was go through each game on MCC and tabbed through the missions on each game. After that, the mission progress for each game came right back for me (number of completed missions). I did the same thing for the cross game play list and that progress all came back, too.
- Now, close the game. Then, boot it back up. At this point, the Xbox will ask you when you load up if you’d like to sync from cloud save or save on this Xbox. Choose this Xbox. I chose the cloud version first and the audio stopped working. Choosing this Xbox save data is critical!
Since doing all of the above my audio is back 100% of the time on all titles. Campaign, multiplayer, you name it! I’ve reloaded and paused many times to assure this worked before posting. The only things I had to set back up is my control scheme for the games and turn subtitles back on, that was it.
The legacy titles team should still release an update that will fix this permanently, so we don’t have to do the above. However, I’m very happy to report that this works for me now, all the time (no Windows version needed!).
Happy gaming, everyone!
Baer, Thanks for the suggestion, but the problem is with the online save file. Whoever came up with that fix was able to do so because their account was only on one Xbox. Mine is on Multiple XBoxOne systems (bedrooms and living room & have that have the same problem (both an X and S). If I switch accounts to OrionPax04, then the sound issue disappears, then when I switch back to OrionPax13, the sound problem returns. In the original Halo games (before MCC), you could adjust the music volume and sound effect volume independently, but for some reason 343 didn’t understand that people want that and didn’t keep Bungie’s options. This leads to no way for me to fix the problem unless there is another menu I have not found. Since 343 has no real customer service options, I am at a loss as how to get this fixed and was hoping someone had a solution I didn’t come up with.