engine sound question

[Angry_Kitten]

Just how do you control the VOLUME on the engine sounds? It is so loud an dannoying an dhurts the ears after 10 minutes i pop the headphones off. 

   

 

 

[343KKT_Kintaro]

1 hour ago, pocketshaver said:

Just how do you control the VOLUME on the engine sounds? It is so loud an dannoying an dhurts the ears after 10 minutes i pop the headphones off.

 

 

You need to open the "Windows Mixer".

 

1. Launch your game.

 

2. Go to "Options".

 

3. Go to "Audio".

 

4. Here you have it, the "Windows Mixer":

 

 

 

 

 

[Buzzsaw]

You should set your ingame sound to 100%... with possibly the exception of music if you don't like it.

 

Then you adjust the sounds from your speakers/headphones with the Windows Sound mixer to your preferred level of comfort.

 

If you don't set the ingame sounds to 100%, then you can lose some sounds, like bullet impacts or others.

[Reccelow]

Tried this, not effective for me.  Changes all sounds equally, so  looking for a method of decreasing only engine or increasing only radio/cockpit. Perhaps this can be done by (engine) sound file manipulation?

[Angry_Kitten]

not effective at all..   engine sounds are same horrendous noise

[Sokol1]

No solution, or you lower overall sound, and miss sounds like hits, etc or anticipate being deaf. ?

 

Engine sounds is too loud... in the name of "realism". 

[343KKT_Kintaro]

Look at my screenshot shown above... my Cliffs of Dover Widows Mixer is very low, this makes I hear properly my collegues on TS and, also, it makes my simulation sound is not excessively loud. Honestly, I see no problem with the sound in this game.

[Angry_Kitten]

Im using headphones here kids, its fricking loud. 

 

Doing it to match your screen shot, two things happen.    ALL the volumes go up to unpleasant levels, or they go down to where the only thing i hear is machine gun fire and the damn engine

[stevinne]

I have to agree that the engine sounds are just way too loud. No other flight sim I've flown, and I've been doing them since the 1990s, has engine sounds this loud - or at least included an option to go in and set it to a comfortable level. It's the thing keeping me from moving on to Tobruk. I like the sim, but I don't want to sacrifice my hearing to play it and turning everything down just to get the engine sounds manageable is definitely a throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater solution.

 

Edited April 26, 2022 by stevinne

[Dagwoodyt]

This is not a new issue. There is no way that I am aware of in SP to independently adjust engine noise lower so that other other sounds (voice comms) can be heard. This may be hard coded within the game engine and not accessible to correct. If that be the case it might just be better to so state.