Game sound volume reduction when activated

[Shrike88]

Greetings, not sure if this is reported or not, however The Overall DCS Game volume is significantly lowered whenever the Voice Radio is activated and turned on after opening the menu.   As soon as all of the users disconnect, then the volume is restored.

[Northstar98]

23 hours ago, Shrike88 said:

Greetings, not sure if this is reported or not, however The Overall DCS Game volume is significantly lowered whenever the Voice Radio is activated and turned on after opening the menu.   As soon as all of the users disconnect, then the volume is restored.

I'm not sure if there's a solution in the works, but if you right click the audio icon in your taskbar, click sounds, then in the window that pops up, select the 'communications' tab and then check 'do nothing' (by default Windows will lower system sounds by 80% when communications activity are detected)

[Hotdognz]

9 hours ago, Northstar98 said:

I'm not sure if there's a solution in the works, but if you right click the audio icon in your taskbar, click sounds, then in the window that pops up, select the 'communications' tab and then check 'do nothing' (by default Windows will lower system sounds by 80% when communications activity are detected)

It does and doesnt, it worked for me, my mate had it all ready set and it didnt work for him

[Gryzor]

It doesn´t works for me (sound output is VR helmet). If I set other channel like speakers, sound is not reduced.

[chumpnut1323]

On 1/6/2022 at 4:10 PM, Northstar98 said:

I'm not sure if there's a solution in the works, but if you right click the audio icon in your taskbar, click sounds, then in the window that pops up, select the 'communications' tab and then check 'do nothing' (by default Windows will lower system sounds by 80% when communications activity are detected)

This worked for me. My situation was, single player volume was drastically louder than multiplayer sessions. I opened up the communications tab listed in the quote above and clicked "do nothing". Now single player volumes are on par with multiplayer volumes. Obviously would rather not have to tweak my windows settings for one application, as I do not know how this will affect other applications.

[Vortex225]

I'm having this issue too. The task bar/communications/do nothing trick did not work for me. 

I would prefer to use Voice Chat, but the volume reduction bug is sending me back to SRS until this is fixed. 

[GORNYAK]

Hello! This is a known problem.

[GORNYAK]

DCS 2.7.12.23362 Open Beta - 28.04.2022

• Improved voice chat
  • fixed lowering sound volume in other programs when using the radio
  • removed connection between microphone controls inside the game and Windows

Please check.