rec.autos.simulators

>The answer to this problem is in the manual, bottom of page 29.  Max
>volume for the spotter is 50%.  If you set it at greater than 50% it
>CUTS the engine sounds and other sounds.  I set the spotters voice
>down, and the engine sounds came back to where they should be.  Still
>having a problem with getting a good balance though, where the engines
>sound good and I can stil hear the spotter.  Seems like the whole
>thing should still have a bit more volume.

>Jim

>The answer to the volume problem is listed below....he has already
>said it before.  Set everyone to 100% and the Speech level to 50% and
>that fixes the problem.

>IFLY4DELTA

>>The answer to this problem is in the manual, bottom of page 29.  Max
>>volume for the spotter is 50%.  If you set it at greater than 50% it
>>CUTS the engine sounds and other sounds.  I set the spotters voice
>>down, and the engine sounds came back to where they should be.  Still
>>having a problem with getting a good balance though, where the engines
>>sound good and I can stil hear the spotter.  Seems like the whole
>>thing should still have a bit more volume.

>>Jim

> N99 seems to be working fine on my system except for a very low sound
> volume.  Of course I have the master volume and engine volumes all set to
> 100% and I can barely hear them.  This is using a Windows98 volume that
> blasts me out of the room with GPL unless I turn its volume down
> substantially.  All other games have more than enough volume (I almost
> always have to turn the internal volume level down).  Any ideas?  Is there
> some sort of .INI setting somewhere that could be scaling back the volume?

> I had the very same problem as you have.  I have a Sound Blaster PCI 64
> sound card, and had the exact same problem.  What fixed the sound was new
> drivers that Creative Labs released on the 25th.  Check for new drivers
> for your sound card and that may take care of the problem.

> Realizing that NR99 is running through windows98(at least for me anyways), I
> adjusted the main volume using the windows or soundblaster master volume
> control.  Cleared up the problem instantly.

> >I hope you don't think all the rest of us reporting this problem are so
> >moronic as to not have properly adjusted the master volume level in Windows

> No I don't think this. But this is why I think the problem is specific
> to your soundcard or soundcard driver, or both :-)

> If it doesn't work right with the industry standard, SoundBlaster, then
> what chance do we have?

>I posted this elsewhere but I might as well post an edited version in
>this thread-

>If you use the shortcuts or .bat
>files that are supposed to be used to start the game you get LOW sound
>and no balance between spotter and engines. IF you go straight to the
>.exe file it is MUCH better! ie. double click nr199r.exe or nr19993d.exe
>from Windows explorer.
>...I would assume this applies to the regular exe (nr1999.exe) also but
>I never tried it.

>This skips the 'intro' movie and takes you straight to the game.

>Hope this helps.
>Alan
>http://www.kiva.net/~akh/simshop.html

>> If it doesn't work right with the industry standard, SoundBlaster, then
>> what chance do we have?

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