Sound goes loud when opening Sim, turn down, sound, then it goes loud again. If playing songs in Media Player, turn down to 2, open any other program, sound goes to 40, about blows out my ears. This happens in any program, but especially hurtful when Jet Engines are even at ground idle. I have tried to diagnose and fix using every possible trouble item on MS website, and countless YouTube videos. I have updated driver=no change, deleted driver, and installed old driver=no change, deleted the Intel and Nvidia USB Audio Drivers=no change.
Has anyone fixed this problem, if so please post your success, because I have not with countless attempts fixed this and it’s driving me nuts. I am fearful of ear damage and then where would the fun be if I cannot hear anything. This has been mentioned countless times in various places and other sim games with no solution. MS Support has at least 7 threads on this subject, with no solutions. If this is a windows 10 problem and you upgraded to 11 and it fixed it, that may be my only course, but not looking forward to that, because new PC in July ???, so it will come with W11Pro on it. Having the learning curve then would be better.
Windows changed the way you control sound volume (for what reason is a mystery to me). The sound control keys in your k/b do not work as they used to, either all on or all off. To control volume as it used to be you have to go to Sound settings, and then look for Volume mixer, and if you are in the sim, you will see it in the Apps, and you can move the slider to the level you want, you will see the System volume which you can set to the same volume. This is in Windows 10/11 version 22H2 (I have Win 11 Pro)
Tune & All - Ok, I tried those suggestions, no change - I also tried different devices, my Bose QC 35 Blue Tooth Headphones, My Samsung Buds + and my Buds Pro. Set volume level at 4, windows media player listening to music, open any other program, regardless of what, volume goes immediately to 40. This happens in Sim, every time I click inside cockpit on any button or instrument as well. I cannot even remember when it started happening. It’s a windows problem, because it happens in X-Plane as well.
It is frustrating because I just reset my system back to OEM baseload less than two weeks ago, and discovered a bad HDD, which had to be changed out. But, some update in Windows, changed this for me and I believe countless others as well. I cannot tell you which one, but it’s not the Realtek Driver, because I have rolled it back and then installed the one for Windows 11 and that did not fix it. It’s a MS Windows issue. Thank all for the assistance, I know MS is aware of it, but until enough people lose hearing, and class action happens, nothing else will change it.
If this sim would run in Linux (X-Plane can) I would dump Windows and go to Linux, but I would lose many of my favorite programs I think. Not good enough on OS’s now a days to go through all that disruption.