Sound Issues - Help!

Damo · Post by **Damo** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:15 pm

Hi Gang,
I have my sound settings in train sim set to full, except the 'Master Volume' which is set on the next notch down from the top and on certain routes, the trains either make no noise or very quiet noise externally, but the inside is okay. Sometimes when the train is quiet, the horn won't work at all! Any ideas on what I can do to resolve this?

Jaguar777 · Post by **Jaguar777** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:32 pm

Coxster wrote:Hi Gang,
I have my sound settings in train sim set to full, except the 'Master Volume' which is set on the next notch down from the top and on certain routes, the trains either make no noise or very quiet noise externally, but the inside is okay. Sometimes when the train is quiet, the horn won't work at all! Any ideas on what I can do to resolve this?

Has your sound always been this way, or has it just started to happen? Can't shed too much light on your problem, though I do remember something similar happening to my installation. If I remember correctly I had just downloaded and installed a loco, and it placed a file in the Common Sound folder which screwed up the sound on all of my engine stock!!

On the other hand, if it is just certain Running Stock this happens to it could be that you have wrongly installed a downloaded Engine. If so, a read through the engines READ ME file might be a good idea.

Other than that, I hope somebody else can shine some light on this for you.

Paul.

Damo · Post by **Damo** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:34 pm

It's since I got my new PC and mainly happens on routes with a fair bit of scenery such as LSE, MT_Springfield etc.

jbilton · Post by **jbilton** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:38 pm

Hi
Have you increased the ammount of sounds in your sounds confiq file?....if not this was discussed on the forums yesterday.
If that don't help....you need more RAM...as the first thing to go is sounds in msts.
A quick check is to turn down the graphics settings...and if the sounds return...bingo.
Cheers
Jon

Jaguar777 · Post by **Jaguar777** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:42 pm

If you have your sound sliders up to the max you should be hearing quite a racket!

This could be a lot of things, including the sound card as it is a new PC. A visit to the Card makers site to see if there is any incompatability issues might help. It could need new drivers, or the original drivers re-installing.

Other than that, I think you are going to have to wait on someone reading your post who might be familiar with this problem.

Hope you get it sorted soon.

Regards,

Paul.

Damo · Post by **Damo** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:55 pm

jbilton wrote:Hi
Have you increased the ammount of sounds in your sounds confiq file?....if not this was discussed on the forums yesterday.

What is the 'confiq' file? Also, where can I find the post?

Crosstie · Post by **Crosstie** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 4:07 pm

Look in the Beginners Forum for "soundcfg.dat", 10/15/05.

jbilton · Post by **jbilton** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 4:15 pm

Crosstie wrote:Look in the Beginners Forum for "soundcfg.dat", 10/15/05.

Just incase you have difficulty.

http://forums.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic.php?t=8717

Cheers
Jon

y2flexy · Post by **y2flexy** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 4:35 pm

by any chance does your new computer have a creatives sound card in it?

salopiangrowler · Post by **salopiangrowler** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 7:31 pm

whats wrong with creative sound cards my mates computer quite happily ran every bar on full with a creative soundblaster live.

leezer3 · Post by **leezer3** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 7:37 pm

Creative cards are notorious for being incredibly buggy!
(For example, on some machines they will run happily in one slot, but not in the adjacant slot) in addition to this, the drivers are totally awful; If you have it working properly in all situations, and have updated the drivers, you are incredibly fortunate.

Cheers

Chris Lees

1975Supra · Post by **1975Supra** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 11:58 pm

I had this problem with a Soundblaster live card. Sounds internally but not externally.. turned the speakers to 2 speaker mode and hey presto working sound!

Did some more tinkering to cut down background processes (MS-SQL, MySQL and some other tasks), turned 4.1 speaker mode back on and I had external sound again. I think MSTS starts to cut back on sound then visuals if it struggles for memory.

I also downloaded the latest (well 2004!) drivers for the card but that had no effect. If you still have problems drop me a pm.

Dave

tinsley · Post by **tinsley** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 1:54 pm

What's wrong with 'Creative' cards..

??
Have had from the very basic to my last one a '24 bit' Live and never had a single problem everything maxed and modified 'soundcfg' file for more sounds...

leezer3 · Post by **leezer3** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 3:03 pm

Have a prod through one of the major computer tech support forums (Ie. Windrivers) or have a google for a popular Creative card, & this will show you the state of the problem. One point though- If the card came installed in your PC, then you're likely to be OK, as they should have worked these issues through.

Cheers

Chris Lees

TimIngman · Post by **TimIngman** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 7:08 pm

If all the above good advice doesn't work, try turning down the sound-card acceleration. You can find this in Control Panel/Sounds & Audio Devices/SpeakerSettings/Advanced/Performance. Alternatively, go to Start/Run, type "dxdiag", choose the Sound tab, and adjust the slider. I think this was suggested here some time ago by Stuart Williamson, - it worked for me when I lost sounds in rearward cabview.

Let us know how you get on!

Regards

Tim

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