When I load a plane, I hear no sound. As I throttle up and it goes by, I get sound. As I fly around, the sound cuts on and off over a period of a few seconds. It'll be on for a couple seconds, then off. It doesn't seem to correlate with distance or throttle position. It happens on all the airplanes I've tried, both gas and electric.
Any suggestions/ideas? I've fiddled around in settings, but couldn't find anything I thought was applicable.
I'm glad I searched the forums for this incident because it's kept me from duplicating a troubleshooting topic. The same thing has happened to me, yet IT ONLY Occurred after updating to the most recent patch, 6.50.016.
Due to real life issues, it had been over 6 months since I last flew around in RF G6.5, and just this past Monday, 5/6/2013, I fired up the simulator and was prompted for an updating.
When I launched the simulator, I noticed the same issues that fryfrog experienced, i.e., No sound when the aircraft is dead center of the screen Only in Fixed and Chase view, however sound does occur when it's left or right of center in Fixed view, and regardless of throttle position, there's no engine sound, only that of the servos, airfield, and environment sounds.
My sound card and video drivers are the latest, although my hardware isn't. The sound card is 2 years old, the GPU is almost 3 years old. Make: Sounblaster XFi Fatality Xtreme Audio PCiE, and NVidia GeForce GTX 260 (x2 - in SLI configuration).
I don't understand what was done in the most recent patch could undo the sound that was working flawlessly when I was running just fine in version 6.50.014 (the latest version I had prior to my update, before I had to deal with my real life issues apart from flying RF G6.5.
Based on feedback from those who've offered suggestions, I also double-checked my settings, and I don't have a teenager here messing with my sound configuration.
By the way, I primarily play with my RAZER Gaming headphones/Microphone. My Creative (Soundblaster) Control Panel settings are in the same configuration as they were when I had no issues with sound, yet, I've experimented with all settings, even restoring the soundcard to its defaults, and changing them back.
I've toggled from 44kHz, to 48kHz, and both 16 and 24-bit audio, still, the sound issue exists.
I've toggled more soundblaster settings.. Enable EAX Effects on and off, X-Fi Crystallizer on/off, and X-Fi CMSS 3D on and off, and from Surround to Stereo (mixing both left and right on the center speaker) or in my case, headphones.
I do have 5.1 sound speakers, but due to maintaining household noise levels low, I only use headphones while gaming and because it's easier to use Teamspeak 3 voice comms during other game sessions.
From within the simulation, I experimented with the menu: Simulation \ Settings \ Audio (both Application and Simulation) to no avail.
Finally, one thing I'm using that fryfrog didn't mention in his situation is the use of TrackIR 5 (for View \ Head Tracking \ TrackIR). With it disabled, and enabled, the sound issue still exists, however, while it's Enabled, while flying at a computer 3D-drawn airfield, like Palace, Castle, etc. not the photorealistic airports, while in almost every view that allows me to look at the aircraft from side to side, or in cockpit view, the sound is perfect, as it should be. While in Fixed view, if I lean my head to the left or the right, or if I look left or right, then the ear that's closest to the aircraft hears sound. In cockpit, it's full stereo sound.
Financially, I'm not currently in a position to where I can upgrade my hardware or my Windows 7 64-bit PC, and I shouldn't have to because before this most recent patch, the sound was perfect, and worked as designed.
Sorry to be long-winded, but it's thorough in hopes of getting feedback from you all should you have suggestions for me to try.
My system is a Dell XPS 710 (built May 2007), running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, 4GB of memory.
Soundblaster X-Fi Audio Xtreme PCiE audio.
NVidia GeForce GTX 260 with the latest WHQL drivers. (2 cards with 896MB each, in SLI-configuration.
Latest DirectX was updated following my drivers update for the sound and graphics.
Thanks in advance for your help.
I may record my situation using FRAPS or PlayClaw4 sometime. In the meantime, I hope this will do to seek for advice.
Thanks,
Sniper121
RF Profile name EJP_Sniper121