Hi -

I've googled this some and can't seem to find anything about it. I've been experiencing sound FX being cut off, like they stop halfway through, such as spells being cast by NPCs. I also routinely lose horse footsteps (hoofsteps?) for about 3-4 seconds about twice a minute when traveling.

Any ideas?

nope. I don't think skyrim would be doing that. Do you have the most recent drivers for your sound card?

Honestly I don't know much about my sound card, under Device Manager it says I've got AMD High Definition Audio Device and Realtek High Definition Audio.

I thought it might be more of a game issue because after horse footstep sounds cut out, when they come back they're accompanied by a thud like something heavy is landing, or all the missing footsteps hit at the same time or something, like they got delayed. But I dunno what I'm talking about, hence being here lol.