Welcome, Mike! One of the admins should be along soon to give you a formal welcome and fill you in on how to join the squad.

It's Realtec onboard sound- I do not have a separate sound card. I will check for audio extensions though.

I just checked and I don't have that enabled. It only affects il2, and it only seems to have happened after playing ROF online while using TS3, so I do suspect that one or the other is resetting something. All my game and config settings in il2 are unchanged, though.

I miss-spoke. It was the EVGA GTX 460 2 gb. I got it and it runs ROF with everything maxed out, at 48% video memory usage- beautiful! In il2 I'm getting much better image quality, but strangely not better FPS. I'm still looking for the "sweet spot" with il2. Even though the FPS is about th...

I "solved" it by uninstalling/reinstalling the drivers. I sure don't want to have to go through this every time I switch between ROF and il2.

The problem has returned, and since I am using the latest drivers I can't update. It seems to happen after using TS3 and ROF. If I go back to il2, the sound is very faint and stays that way.

Good to see you back- we have also been flying 1946 with the HSFX 5.1 pack on Friday nights, alternating with ROF. Look in the Historic Encounters section here for more info.

The link isn't working for me. Thanks anyways.

I updated the sound drivers, and that seems to have fixed it.

Here are the sound settings from my config.ini; [sound] SoundUse=1 SoundEngine=1 Speakers=0 Placement=0 SoundFlags.reversestereo=0 RadioFlags.Enabled=0 RadioEngine=2 MusicVolume=1 ObjectVolume=14 MusState.takeoff=1 MusState.inflight=1 MusState.crash=0 MusFlags.play=0 MasterVolume=14 Attenuation=17 S...

Starting a few days ago, all sound in Il2 became very muted and I have to turn my headphones all the way up to hear anything at all. The headphones work fine when using any other program such as ROF or when listening to music. I have the volume in game turned all the way up, as well as in windows vo...

I notice that win7 has a feature in control panel called "Create and format hard disk partitions". Has anyone here used this? I am thinking about creating a partition for everything but the OS to be moved to, and leaving the OS in it's original partition. Would I be able to do this using t...

I don't think there's any way around having to run the updates. It saves the developers a lot of grief, since they only have to worry about supporting more than one version of the game. Furthermore the updates and patches always seem to improve the game in terms of how it runs and how many options o...

Mike, when you updated did it ask you to reinstall direct x? Did you reinstall it? This seems to be a requirement for getting some things to work. The game version is kept current by the online update process. This keeps everyone from having compatibility issues when flying online. Did you try looki...

Keeping fingers crossed (makes it hard to type, though) and setting lots of restore points. I almost have things back to normal, I just have to go through the long process of setting up the various stick profiles for ROF and creating a new CH HOTAS profile for Il2, since the old one got lost. I had ...