Some sound issues

[ossie]

Hopefully I'm not doubling up, but have checked back through 4 or 5 pages & while others have reported sound issues, I haven't seen my issue listed.

I've tested each of these issues in MSTS without a problem, so assume it's OR rather than my sound card. Many of the locos I've used have run fine, but a couple I have tried have seemed way too loud and then as they move away from my camera position, the sound will cut off abruptly.

I also have an issue with a couple of locos I have used where there is no external sound playing but in cab sound works normally. A couple of others have in cab sound but no horn.

RS volume also seems a lot lower than in MSTS.

As mentioned, I've tried each of the locos in MSTS without encountering these issues.

Happy to provide more info (ie loco details etc) if required, but if this is a common/known problem would appreciate a pointer to a fix (if any) or acknowledgement that the problem has been previously noted. Thanks!

P.S. I've only been using MSTS for a year or so & have only converted to Open Rails in the last couple of weeks. I'm knocked out by the improvement in graphics & want to thank you guys for doing a brilliant job in producing the package!

[wwhall]

The sound cutoff issue is a known OR issue--supposedly to be fixed in Version 1.0. I wish it could get remedied sooner. I've noticed that sound volume levels--especially in the cab--have been being "fine-tuned" in some of the experimental releases. For awhile, I was modifiying MSTS .sms files so that they would sound better in OR--until I realized that the whole sound-rendering scheme in OR is still a moving target.

Some fixes that the OR has made are really cool, though. For example, the air compressor sounds on each individual loco in a lashup of locomotives will now start and stop depending on the parameters set in the individual locomotive's .eng file. There is no more need for random compressor streams to be in an .sms file with OR, and I've been removing those from my .sms files.

[ossie]

Thanks for the info. If the cut off is a known issue, I'm more than happy to live with that until a fix arrives. The benefits far outweigh the drawbacks.

In terms of my other issue, some locos playing in cab sound but no horn/engine noise when outside, this is one of the locos I am having trouble with:

https://www.trainsim.com/vbts/tslib.php?searchid=2249982

If anyone would like to test it and let me know if they are getting both cab & engine audio, that would be great please. I did try adding a couple of other sound files to the C501 loco (UPSD70 was one I tested) aside from it's default sounds & got the same result with all of them. Could only hear loco audio when in the cab, not outside, but all worked fine in MSTS. If it is an OR issue, not much I can do, but if it is working for other players, then I need to do some more digging with my sound setup I guess.

[ossie]

Ok, please forget the previous post I made. It's something with my PC. I set up my old machine with OR & the loco sound works fine. Time to start doing some head scratching...

[ossie]

After a fairly lengthy process of going through trying EVERY one of the possible combinations for my sound card settings without any luck, I started playing around with the OR settings and as soon as I disabled the "train lights" option my engine sounds began to play fine. Enable train lights again & suddenly my engine/horn noises either disappear, get very low and/or distorted.

As mentioned, the sound ran fine on my old PC when I tested it & it runs fine on MSTS on this machine, but for some reason there seems to be a conflict between eng.sms & the OR train lights option on this PC. I have no idea why this might be the case so if anyone has any suggestions about a fix or even a theory about what might be causing it, that would be fantastic. Of the 2, I'll stick with the eng sounds, but no lights on the loco, particularly for night running, is clearly less than ideal. Thanks!