Audio problems

[Dave Coyne]

Has anyone experienced any audio problems with RF2 , i have been playing only 60s racing without any probs , i tried Meganes and had to put volume on my speakers to max and then could barely hear the engines etc , swopped back to 60s cars and found i now had to run higher volume to hear those also but not as high as Meganes . In all other games these setting blow out the walls .
The ingame volume controls are set to max have tried to set all but engine noise to minimum but volume does not increase at all , it appears that the game is going quieter slowly .

 

[Marco Bijl]

No, have not had that before.

Did have some strange things with the meganes, but that was only for 1 day. Next day all was well again, so I figured it was a bad connection of the headphone.

 

[Matt Cox]

I've installed Rfactor 2 this evening and I've run into very very quiet audio and I can barely hear anything no matter what I do to the settings. I've only downloaded the FR 3.5 so far, so will try some others, but was wondering if anyone else had come across this?

 

[Andy White]

Have you checked Windows Volume Mixer, to make sure RF2 isn't turned down?

 

[Marco Bijl]

Are ALL the sounds low on volume? F.i., if you hover over a button, does that sound is low in volume as well, or is it just the volume in the cars?

 

[Matt Cox]

It's all the sounds that are quiet including menus etc.

I didn't think to check the mixer, I was looking at the overall volume and speaker config. I'll give it a look when I get chance later this evening.

 

[Matt Cox]

Yep, it turned out to be the mixer setting for rfactor 2. I've never known an application set itself so low by default like that. Oh well, mystery solved. Thanks for the suggestion.

 

[Chris Preston]

Since it's pointless to make a new thread I'll post my audio problem here... When playing all I get is the sound of the tyres, the wind, spotter, etc... No engines sounds =\ I've reinstalled the game and nothing has changed. Any ideas?

 

[Marco Bijl]

@Chris,
Did you check if the sounds are installed correctly? Open the MOD manager, UNtick the Show mods only box at the options, and look for the engine sounds.
You can also check it in game, with the component manager. There should be a sounds 1.0 installed I believe.

 

[Chris Preston]

Yeah I checked that and it says all the sound files are installed.

 

[James Andrew]

I don't hear any spotter. No idea whether he only calls laptimes (I do have that option set ON) but not getting those or traffic calls if those exist. Spotter volume in-sim is also at 100%.