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GSX Little To No Sound **SOLVED**

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Carbonbell:

--- Quote from: LX2259 on July 07, 2018, 05:22:09 pm ---Hi,

I also experience these volume fluctuations with GSX. I think it might have started with the last (big) windows 10 update a couple of weeks ago.
I use P3D v4.3 (before that v4.2) and lately I only flew the fslabs Airbusses...

--- End quote ---
I agree with you.  From my recollection, it was when there was a OS update that my sound went  a little off.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Kind regards.
David Bell

virtuali:
GSX never tries to handle your audio card directly, it uses OpenAL so, if there are issues with it, it can only be related to how compatible your audio drivers are with OpenAL.

Clear example of this, are such reported "volume fluctuations". GSX never change the volume, unless you explicitly move the GSX volume slider in the settings. There are no other places in the code where GSX ever changes the volume.

However, the driver itself might, to do positional audio. Even in this case, GSX doesn't do anything directly, it only specifies a position in the 3d world for an audio source, but the rest is entirely handled by OpenAL, which in turns call the audio drivers (not 100% technically accurate: it calls the audio drivers if the card support EAX hardware acceleration, otherwise it calls OpenAL, which will in turn call DirectSound, and finally the drivers).

So, whatever issues related to sound you have with GSX sounds, while the sim is running, are entirely outside our control. Well, unless you hear something clearly wrong from a logical point of view, like playing the voice of the deicer when you call pushback...

zk:
Just in case anyone is still having this problem, I found the root cause.  Windows 10 is detecting "communications activity" (like being on a voice call) and reducing the volume of all of the other sounds outside of the main program you are using.  Once the "communication" (or the voice call) is complete, Windows restores the volume back to normal levels for all other programs.  In my case, this would occur every time I used P3D's built-in ATC.  Since I generally go for clearance while GSX is boarding the aircraft, Win10 lowered the volume for GSX by 80%.  NOT COOL WINDOWS!  Anyway....to fix it, do the following:

go into Control Panel -> Sound

Click on the "communications" tab and select "Do Nothing" - press apply when finished.

Thats it....super simple.  Good luck!

LX2259:
Thanks for the tip!

It seems to work for me as well!

Ray Proudfoot:
Thanks @zk, that solved the GSX sound problem for me too.  :)

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