Hi everybody. I am having some sound issues with FSX. I am currently running the sim on an HP Pavilion dv6 laptop. I have recently purchased two small speakers to plug into the laptop for a little added realism. I plugged the headphones into one of the two audio jacks on the laptop. However, whenever I am flying and contact ATC, the sound on my speakers fades down to very faint and I only hear ATC (no other sounds) on my laptop's built-in speakers. Whats wrong here? It happens with headphones, too. Thanks for any help!hamoody

If your having problems keeping the ATC sound volumes stable with FSX Windows 7, try this. It worked for me. Open Control Panel/Sound/Communications, Choose the "Do Nothing" option then Apply. I guess it's reading the ATC as a phone transmission.

If your having problems keeping the ATC sound volumes stable with FSX Windows 7, try this. It worked for me. Open Control Panel/Sound/Communications, Choose the "Do Nothing" option then Apply. I guess it's reading the ATC as a phone transmission.

That didnt work. Its not the sound volumes. Its that the sound 'transfers' to my built-in speakers

Can anyone help me?

Can anyone help me?

Hi,I had another issue recently with sound when I built a new i7 machine (my issue was that nthe sound kept having dropouts). I found that setting the Affinity to 14 (I have a quad) in FSX.CFG made all the difference. Just a thought that may help you.Bruce.

I dont think its a speaker problem. To output in the way you want would require 2 sound cards, FSX will then give you the option to have voice on one card, aircraft sounds on the other, each through their respective speakers. I have this in operation on my desktop and here is how. I bought a USB headset that the computer sees as a seperate device, I have set FSX up to output voice such as ATC or other pilots when online through the headset and aircraft sounds through my normal speakers. So you might need to buy a cheap exteranal USB sound device to achieve this. if you do a ebay search for usb sound you will find plenty of them.

I dont think its a speaker problem. To output in the way you want would require 2 sound cards, FSX will then give you the option to have voice on one card, aircraft sounds on the other, each through their respective speakers. I have this in operation on my desktop and here is how. I bought a USB headset that the computer sees as a seperate device, I have set FSX up to output voice such as ATC or other pilots when online through the headset and aircraft sounds through my normal speakers. So you might need to buy a cheap exteranal USB sound device to achieve this. if you do a ebay search for usb sound you will find plenty of them.

My system works quite the same, voice over headphones and the normal sounds over speaker, but I do not have a USB headset, I have an ordinary one and it works. To archive this I had to tell the system that it should use the headset as a second output device, maybe you check that in the system control panel.