Hi,

 

I'm using RC since a couple of weeks - nice tool!!

 

But during my flights I have to fight with different sound levels. Sometimes (expecially at or near airports) the sound volume drops and after 30-50 seconds, the volume increases again.

 

I guess, the standard ATC still works in the background, although I hear no standard chatter from this engine!! Any suggestions how to kick the standard FSX-ATC out or how to get rid of theses sound level changes?

 

Greetings

Thommy

The easiest way to get rid of the annoying default ATC sound is to go to the menu selection for sound levels and merely move the ATC sound level all the way left (off). Also, have you unchecked the option whereby the default ATC starts with every flight? I can't throw any light (sound??) on why your sound level for RC should increase/decrease, although I do know that some sound files are simply not as loud as others. While RC has many good features, sound quality and wav file fidelity are not the best.

Hi Dan,

the sound level for the standard ATC is already turned down. But try to uncheck the start option for ATC! Thanks for the hint!

Hi,

 

I'm using RC since a couple of weeks - nice tool!!

 

But during my flights I have to fight with different sound levels. Sometimes (expecially at or near airports) the sound volume drops and after 30-50 seconds, the volume increases again.

 

I guess, the standard ATC still works in the background, although I hear no standard chatter from this engine!! Any suggestions how to kick the standard FSX-ATC out or how to get rid of theses sound level changes?

 

Greetings

Thommy

 

Are you talking about Radar Contact? (RC) or am I mistaken?

 

If it's RC4, what you are experiencing is a feature of Windows 7 or Vista, whereby Windows decides to automatically reduce the sound level of applications it deems background tasks.

 

Since Vista, every running application has a separate volume slider.

 

Look at the bottom right of the screen (the system tray).

 

Click the audio icon, then click "Mixer".

 

You will then be able to see FSX (or FS9) volume slider as well as RC4 slider.

 

To disable automatic attenuation of sound, provided you're running Windows 7 (can't do that in Vista), go to control panel, double-click audio applet, select "Communications" tab at he top of the window.

 

Select option "do nothing" and click Apply.

 

Follow "woodhick" advice on how to mute default ATC sound.

 

Hope this helps

In RC turn off Prerecorded chatter. Leave AI chatter and Interact with AI enabled. Interact with AI also enables RC control of AI for limited functions. Prerecorded chatter is random without paying attention to ai and its use decreases audio performance in RC. It is just there for those that require ambiance. AI Chatter is coms with ai in your area. They need to be on the same frequency, actually communications phase such as tower, approach, etc., that you are on.

 

To balance the environment sounds within FS and RC set the FS mixers as needed (with ATC all the way down. RC uses the main .wav mixer in Windows mixer so between the windows speaker level and wav mixer, set those for your RC level and then adjust the FS mixer so RC is not dominated by the FS environment.