![]() The reason for this is that the sim had taken it's own sound settings from the Windows sound settings, and the change to HDMI monitor as the primary output in Windows had caused the sim to set sounds to come out of the "Default Communications Device". the volume decrease to sim sounds would occur every time ATC spoke. But, the result of the change was indeed noticeable. The change of ATC sounds coming out of the HDMI monitor instead of the external speakers was barely detectable (I certainly had not noticed it at all until after I had made this discovery about the Windows sound settings change). But, if I turned them on AFTER I load and run the sim, then engine and environment sounds would come out of the external speakers, whilst ATC sounds were not. If I turned them on BEFORE I load and run the sim, the sound from the sim worked fine, came out of the external speakers, and ATC speaking did not cause a lowering of the volume levels. My external speakers are powered separately and I need to manually turn them on to use them. Anyway, as a result of that change, the sound settings in the sim were also changed to follow suit and it was now set to send all sound out of the HDMI monitor. so I can only guess that Windows Update has made that change without any thought to prompt or ask me. I would have set my external speakers to be the default. I would certainly have never set it up that way. I noticed that my primary default sound output device in Windows was set to be my HDMI monitor as opposed to my external speakers. After some exhaustive fault finding, and much changing of many settings followed by testing, I stumbled across the following. And, in my case, it is even more frustrating as I work in IT customer support and should already have enough knowledge to solve stuff like this. It is so frustrating when something works well for so long, and then along comes a Windows Update which makes changes "in the name of making things better" only to have it "break" what was a perfectly well-working PC. ![]() And, choosing the "defaults" is probably no good because the setting which is causing the issue is probably one of those defaults. ![]() so there is no way to go in and change that setting back. Sadly, there is no way to know what specific setting was changed or modified by a Windows Update. I did not have any issues previously with my settings and used the sim (FSX and now P3D 4.5) for ages with no loss of volume when ATC speaks. I've read a few different things on various forums, but, there seems to be a mix of responses, and nothing very solid that stands out. (Note that the issue seems to not be limited to the Dash 8, as I've also experienced it in PMDG aircraft too.) I will watch this thread with interest as I have only just begun to experience this exact same issue and my settings were already set to "Do Nothing".
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