Volume Goes down With Sim

[Allan Burek 811687]

Tried a search, no help. Intermittently the vPilot volume will go lower when the sim is running. If I change the vPilot audio to my USB headset then the vPilot audio is fine. Back to the speakers and its low again. I have integrated Realtek sound.

 

Any help is appreciated as this is an intermittent issue so hard to troubleshoot.

 

Allan

[John Binner]

Same issue here. PD v4 and any aircraft. As soon as I bring in the sim sounds, vpilot goes almost too low to hear. If I use "Q" to mute sim sounds, then vpilot increases volume back where it should be.

[Ross Carlson]

This has got to be something triggered by the OS or your audio driver, or maybe mixer settings. vPilot never changes volume settings automatically.

[John Binner]

made some changes in the vpilot client and the windows output settings. Will see how it does next flight. (vpilot was down at 54% volume for some reason in Win10 output mixer.)

[John Binner]

seems to have been an issue MOSTLY with Windows 10 sound mixer. HOWEVER......

 

If I use the "Q" button to turn off sound in the sim (P3Dv4), and then at ANY time press Q again to turn the sound back on, the sound from vPilot gets quiet again. NO way to set it back louder unless I mute the cockpit noises again, or restart vPilot for the remainder of the flight.

 

Running vPilot as admin, P3D as normal user, but that user is also in the admin group. So that shouldn't be an issue either.

 

Only thing I can think of is reinstalling / updating audio drivers?

[Pascal Doppmann]

Anyone found a fix for this yet? just had it occur and the Windows10 fixes I've tried so far haven't worked. Restarting vPilot doesnt work either.

[Josh Nunn]

In the windows sounds settings for your audio device ensure you have the following settings:

 

“Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device” = UNCHECKED

 

“When windows detects communication activity” = DO NOTHING

[Ronnie Cummins]

Has anyone published a solution to this problem as yet.

Also tried the two usually advised options above but with no resolve

The sim sounds are fine. But once vpilot is started, the aircraft volume drops and sounds distorted.

I'm using a Bluetooth/ No dongle Sony headset. Windows 11. Asus with realtek and all that.

 

Edited October 27, 2022 at 06:41 PM by Ronnie Cummins

[Matisse VanWezer]

1 hour ago, Ronnie Cummins said:

But once vpilot is started, the aircraft volume drops and sounds distorted.

You kind of seem to have the opposite problem from OP.  

Let''s get the obvious out of the way:

Sound control panel < Communications < Do Nothing

 

That being said, I have no issues even though my settings conflict with proposed solutions too so... fingers crossed for you.

[Ronnie Cummins]

Thanks....I did that.

However, the solution was to use a wired USB headset.