Scratchy sound

[drwalker]

I am running Win 7 64 bit beta on a Gigabyte x48 mobo with a realtek on-board high def sound chip. 9800GX2 GPU, 4 G DDR3 ram, core 2 quad 9550. It was running FSX?FTX beautifully. I did an update to Kapersky which required a reboot, and after the reboot the machine would blue-screen about a second after getting to the log in screen. Long story short - full re-install. As far as I recall, I have done an identical re-install to the one I had before. I have downloaded the latest realtek driver (vista 64 bit) from the Gigabyte web site. For some reason now, the sound in FSX is awful. There is a loud scratchy noise in the background - like static on an old radio. Sound outside of FSX is normal with music, video etc. Has anyone heard anything like this in FSX?

[Wolter van der Spoel]

Could you post a copy of your Sound section of the fsX.cfg like this :

[sOUND]

AmbientUIMusicVolume=-6.000000

SOUND_FADER1=0.350000

SOUND_FADER2=0.500000

SOUND_FADER3=0.500000

SOUND_FADER4=0.500000

AmbientUIMusic=FSX01

PrimaryDevice={BD6DD71A-3DEB-11D1-B171-00C04FC20004}

VoiceDevice={BD6DD71A-3DEB-11D1-B171-00C04FC20004}

SOUND=1

SOUND_QUALITY=2

SOUND_LOD=0

UISound=0

AmbientUI=0

I ask this as you have to assign the soundcard part of your mobo to fsX, probably now it is set to windows default instead

[drwalker]

Thanks for the prompt reply, Wolter. Here is the appropriate section of my FSX.CFG

[sOUND]

AmbientUIMusicVolume=-6.000000

SOUND=1

SOUND_QUALITY=2

SOUND_LOD=0

UISound=1

AmbientUI=0

SOUND_FADER1=0.700000

SOUND_FADER2=0.700000

SOUND_FADER3=0.700000

SOUND_FADER4=0.720000

AmbientUIMusic=FSX01

PrimaryDevice={F17FB6BC-C00D-4A66-A9AF-C9896F6649EF}

VoiceDevice={F17FB6BC-C00D-4A66-A9AF-C9896F6649EF}

[Wolter van der Spoel]

attached a screenie of the sound setting panel in fsX, make sure you select the sound device that is not the "Default Primary Device"