How to increase the native volume in TRS2010

[cconesa]

Hi everyone.

I am a complete newbie in the Trainz community and would much appreciate if someone could shed some light with the following two questions:

1) How can I increase the (SFX) sound volume from within the program?. It is a little too soft for my liking and I have not been able to find an option in the program itself.

2) I am considering buying one of the addons: "Murchison 2" or "Classic Cabon City" which were created for TRS2009, but I understand that TRS2010 has backward compatibility with TRS2009 and thus, you have guessed, my question is if I can run either of these two addons on TRS2010 and do they run well?.

Regards,

Christian.

 

[JCitron]

Hi everyone.

I am a complete newbie in the Trainz community and would much appreciate if someone could shed some light with the following two questions:

1) How can I increase the (SFX) sound volume from within the program?. It is a little too soft for my liking and I have not been able to find an option in the program itself.

2) I am considering buying one of the addons: "Murchison 2" or "Classic Cabon City" which were created for TRS2009, but I understand that TRS2010 has backward compatibility with TRS2009 and thus, you have guessed, my question is if I can run either of these two addons on TRS2010 and do they run well?.

Regards,

Christian.

Christian,

Your Add-ons will work fine in TS2010.

The overall sound-level within the game, I think unfortunately is controlled on a per-asset basis. In otherwords each item has its own sound level, and given the huge number of sound-producing items, this would be a really daunting task updating the sounds for each object. So I think the only way to control the overall volume is to adjust your speakers or sound-level in Windows.

Now personally I have actually lowered the volume on my system using the Windows sound level adjuster (mixer?) because I found the sound to be too loud. Then yet again, I can hear ants walk at night so perhaps my hearing is more sensitive.

John

 

[NikkiA]

I'm not sure you can. You can adjust the relative volume using the mixer control in windows, if you're using Vista or 7, but other than that, I think turning up your PC's volume - or getting better speakers - is the only option.

Oh and regarding this:

1) How can I increase the (SFX) sound volume from within the program?. It is a little too soft for my liking and I have not been able to find an option in the program itself.

I recommend trying one of Sporbust's SD70s, they can't possibly be described as 'soft', and assuming you have decent speakers (I use Logitech X-540 5.1 set) then your neighbours will be banging on the wall and asking you to turn down the diesel engine you're running in your living room in no time...

 

[Gandalf0444]

Perhaps the addition of a sound card would also help. It would give all the sounds a louder crisper sound. As well as the ability to setup surround sound so it would make it sound and feel like your really standing next to the locomotive/train.

 

[j_maybury]

Hi everyone.

I am a complete newbie in the Trainz community and would much appreciate if someone could shed some light with the following two questions:

1) How can I increase the (SFX) sound volume from within the program?. It is a little too soft for my liking and I have not been able to find an option in the program itself.

2) I am considering buying one of the addons: "Murchison 2" or "Classic Cabon City" which were created for TRS2009, but I understand that TRS2010 has backward compatibility with TRS2009 and thus, you have guessed, my question is if I can run either of these two addons on TRS2010 and do they run well?.

Regards,

Christian.

Hi Christian,
And welcome to the trainz forum,

For your first question, I don't think there is a volume control as such, but I have a question for you...... How have you got your sound system set up?.... Because if you have got it set up for a multi sound system and are only using two speakers or a set of head phones then you are missing out a lot of the sound from the other speakers.

As for your second question, I can't say as I've only got the S&C add-on but all three have updates on the forum somewhere for TS2010 but they will work even without them, they just clear up some miner bugs.

 

[cconesa]

Hi everyone.

Thank you so much for all the replies.

I have a 5.1 sound card and increasing the volume in the speakers does indeed help and solves the problem but I was just curious if the volume could be changed from within the program.

Do you recommend buying one of the add-ons a d if so, which one?.

Regards,

Christian.