I'm sure I must be completely missing something here, but I've got a quick question. I've played with a few tables and consistently notice that the table sound effects (flipper, plunger, etc.) are substantially louder than the music. I've tried turning the music volume to maximum and the effects volume to near minimum. That helps a bit, but it's still not that great.

So...am I dumb/missing something here, or is this just the way it works today?

Thanks.

Major Havoc

I have exactly the same problem, but only on some tables, Star Trek TNG and Theatre of magic. The sound effects are at normal voulme but the music is a pathetic whisper in the background that can barely be heard!

Please sombody help! Thanx.

...right...those are two of the main tables that I tried and found that low music volume.

Is this a known problem?

--Major Havoc

Maybe we have incorrect or badly dumped rom images. But then again I have no CRC errors?

Does anybody else have this problem?

Open the virtual door to the machine's innards by pressing the END key, then use the 8 & 9 keys to adjust the pinball machine's volume & your sound effects will no longer be drowned out.

> Maybe we have incorrect or badly dumped rom images. But then again I have no CRC
> errors?
>
> Does anybody else have this problem?
>


Jay
Hardware/Tech Support Moderator

# of bugs found in Windows so far:

I find that doing this is what causes the 'scratchy sound' on these tables though. If I turn up the volume with the END key, its scratchy (on Medieval Madness especially), but if I turn up the windows volume control, it isn't. I don't have a speaker volume control unfortunately, as I'm on headphones.

> Open the virtual door to the machine's innards by pressing the END key, then use
> the 8 & 9 keys to adjust the pinball machine's volume & your sound effects will
> no longer be drowned out.
>
> > Maybe we have incorrect or badly dumped rom images. But then again I have no
> CRC
> > errors?
> >
> > Does anybody else have this problem?
> >
>
>
> Jay
> Hardware/Tech Support Moderator
>
> # of bugs found in Windows so far:
>
>

Jay,

I finally got to try your advice tonight. You were right on the money! The volume on the music is now perfect and I do not have any crackling sounds (as someone else said they are experiencing).

Thanks very much for your help in resolving this. I am really enjoying pinball simulation!

:-)

Major Havoc

I've been having a similar problem with games such as Eight Ball Deluxe, where the background noise is just fine, but the speech sounds for the targets and the flipper sounds just don't make any noise. I remember initially that I could hear them, but after playing the game a few times, they went away. I am running on a 533MHz Pentium III with 128 MB RAM. I have also tried about 4 different versions of Eight Ball Deluxe, and have the same sound problems with all of them.

I tried the suggestion of adjusting the volume with the End and 8 & 9 keys, but I still can't get some of the sounds to work. Looking at the Sound Manager of the VPT, I can see and play the sounds I am missing during the game, and I can see where they are supposed to be playing within the script, but I just can't get them to work when running the table.

Has anyone else had any problems even closely related to this, or am I just being a total newbie?!?

Thanks for any help you can give.

> I find that doing this is what causes the 'scratchy sound' on these tables
> though. If I turn up the volume with the END key, its scratchy (on Medieval
> Madness especially), but if I turn up the windows volume control, it isn't. I
> don't have a speaker volume control unfortunately, as I'm on headphones.
>
> > Open the virtual door to the machine's innards by pressing the END key, then
> use
> > the 8 & 9 keys to adjust the pinball machine's volume & your sound effects
> will
> > no longer be drowned out.
> >
> > > Maybe we have incorrect or badly dumped rom images. But then again I have no
> > CRC
> > > errors?
> > >
> > > Does anybody else have this problem?
> > >
> >
> >
> > Jay
> > Hardware/Tech Support Moderator
> >
> > # of bugs found in Windows so far:
> >
> >
>