Sound cutting out

[andrewclaridge]

Hi

I've been trying the demo and love it! However it is causing my sound to completely cut out, after a short time (even if not on an
fspassengers flight). I have uninstalled the demo and find I have no problems now. I have tried pressing "Q" as suggested in earlier
forum answers that I searched, but with no success. Can anyone help me as I'd love to purchase the full version but I can't with this
problem. My soundcard is a Realtek AC97.

Many thanks
Andrew Claridge

[SWAFO]

Never heard of your soundcard. Try testing your sound with the different "notches" in DirectX Diagnostics (START-RUN-dxdiag). From
here, choose the sound acceleration tab, and adjust downwards. Some people report that the sound issues are fixed when turning
down, or completely disabling hardware acceleration.

Good luck!

[TonyH]

Realtek AC97 is 'on board on a lot of motherboards', certainly those by MSI. I have this also and don't have any particular problems
running FSP. Sometimes I find when I switch to another window and then back to FS9 I have no sound, but hitting the pause key twice
always cures it.

[andrewclaridge]

Thank you for your suggestions. I have tried them tonight and unfortunatly they have not helped. But thanks for trying!

Andrew

[SWAFO]

Why not buy a new sound card? Most on-board OEM cards are junk anyway, and with the price of PC hardware so cheap these days, it's
really worth it to upgrade! There's no need to buy a $100 card... even some of the $20 cards are better than alot of the onboard junk!

Just my 2 cents!

[andrewclaridge]

Thanks Brad - that's my next step! I do have a soundcard in an older computer that I could try. I was just concerned it might cause
conflicts with the existing onboard soundcard if I installed it - but it's worth a shot I guess!

Thanks again for taking the time to respond!
Andrew

[Dutch64]

You can run both soundcards in fact but to rule out any issues better disable the realtek in your bios

[pegase]

I had somehing like this last Sunday;

I paused the flight.
Launched the TV to watch the news
The TV program crashed on exit.
I Resumed to the flight which was totally silent, tried pause, Q... no avail and finished the flight as deaf pilot.

Finally opened the sound mixer icon on bottom right ; "something" caused all sound channels to be muted. just had to uncheck the box to
fix the problem...

Hopefully it helps ?

[maury]

I've noticed the same with the new upgrade

maurizio

[SWAFO]

andrewclaridge wrote:
Thanks Brad - that's my next step! I do have a soundcard in an older computer that I could try. I was just concerned it might cause
conflicts with the existing onboard soundcard if I installed it - but it's worth a shot I guess!

Thanks again for taking the time to respond!
Andrew

The onboard card can be disabled in BIOS. Other than that, I've got an older PC (about 3 years old), and use the latest technology in
Soundcards (The Soundblaster Audigy 2ZS Platinum).