Hello all,Probably the issue has been handled often in the past, however, searching this Forum (and with Google) did not bring me closer to a solution.When flying together with friends (via FSHost) and communicating by using Teamspeak, I want to have my sound settings in a way that all environmental sounds are directed through my onboard sound card and a USB2-headset should take the voice channels. In principle this arrangement works well but there is one thing disturbing me: the environmental sound softens quite significantly when any communication takes place and increases again if everybody remains silent for a moment. Is there any chance or hint to get rid of this issue or is this one of the typical "features" Aces left behind? Probably I'm just stubborn not seing the wood for the trees.

Nothing to do with Aces leaving features behind. I think this is a function provided by Teamspeak to prevent echo, and also to prevent the background noises from interfering with one's ability to hear speech. In the real world it would be similar to 'squelch', which is a function provided by most vhf tranceivers. What other "typical" features did Aces leave behind?

This happens to me on Squawkbox. I'm pretty sure its a windows feature.Right click on the speaker in the bottom right of the taskbar, go to sounds, go to communications tab, click on "Do nothing" radio button.Hope this fixes your issue.Chuck

Nothing to do with Aces leaving features behind. I think this is a function provided by Teamspeak to prevent echo, and also to prevent the background noises from interfering with one's ability to hear speech. In the real world it would be similar to 'squelch', which is a function provided by most vhf tranceivers. What other "typical" features did Aces leave behind?

Paul, hopefully I did not step on your toes... no harm meant. However, to answer very brief your question: one issue is at least the weather (specifically the "disappearing cloud problem" even in OVC conditions), a second one ATC, routing through hills (strange commands etc.), AI that comes in bundles to land (no spacing at all) and so far. Nonetheless I love this product because it is almost open for changes, even if I'm missing the easy access to airport data, radio bacon data fixes, airways etc.EDIT: Of course I know that the Aces team was quite addicted to the product and that they did not quit by their own.

This happens to me on Squawkbox. I'm pretty sure its a windows feature.Right click on the speaker in the bottom right of the taskbar, go to sounds, go to communications tab, click on "Do nothing" radio button.Hope this fixes your issue.Chuck

Hi Chuck, no necessary changes to my settings. The radio button was already checked. I just tested with FS9 and it's the same. It might be indeed a Win 7 problem. Nevertheless, thanks for both of your hints.

Think nothing of it, Axel: My backgroud is aviation electronics, plus IT in various forms since '86, and I've been using the MS flight sim since that time, and dozens of times I see folks bashing Microsoft, or the Aces team - nasty little one-line jabs - for them doing this or not doing that, without giving any consideration to the circumstances that existed at the time when those "mistakes" were made, or left out, or to be able to defend themselves. Most critics are also not programmers, or highly skilled game programmers such as those on that team. One does not get a job with MS unless you are at that level.I'm not making excuses for MS, it's just that the FS was built to allow it to be used on older systems, to be used on every hardware platform made by any manufacturer that uses an Intel or AMD proc - that conforms to the original "PC" operating system/hardware deal that was made between IBM and Microsoft back in the early eighties. It is also built so that it can be added to, by third party developers, thus creating a new industry: it was built to take advantage of faster hardware than existed at the time that that particular OS was in use; It was created using cutting-edge programming techniques, with cutting-edge software.It is an enormously complex piece of software, and one that uses more pc resources than any other software that I know of - perhaps the high-end versions of AutoCad, or other high-end graphics manipulation software would be equivalent. No - the Aces management team were well aware of the anomalies that exist, but one has to have time and people in order to take care of every little facet that needs to be correct, and, honestly - they've done a heck of a job. This final (SP2) version is almost flawless with the hardware and OS that we have today. If it were not for the fact that 'cloud computing' is here - there would still be an Aces team and FSX would be FS-2011.Hindsight is always 20/20!Have a great New Year!

Same to you, Paul!BTW, I'm engineer myself, specialised in electronic measurements and control systems (it's a lot of software!). Even if I'm working in management now for many years I knew something about the background your're talking about. Hehe, I started simming at about the same time as you did - I missed actually #1 only.Best wishes for New Year to you as well!

[sOLVED] Just in case somebody tumbles over this thread having the same problem: It's a setting in TeamSpeak. Just uncheck the box "Volume Control" after selecting Plugins under the tab (probably named) Settings - it might be named Options in the English version.

 

Grrrr...