For those of us having problems with quiet sound effects (weak-sounding guns, bullets, etc), give this a shot:
1. Go to the Control Panel and open your Sound settings (make sure you're under the Playback tab).
2. Open the Properties for your output device.
3. Click on the Enhancements tab.
4. Disable "Bass Boost and Frequency Protection."
5. Disable "Loudness Equalization."
6. Enable "Virtual Surround" (doing this should disable "Room Correction." If it doesn't for some reason, disable that too).
Try these settings first. If there is no difference, try experimenting with different combinations.
In my case, no enhancements at all made everything sound very weak. With different combinations of enhancements, things almost always sounded outrageously quiet (particularly guns and grenades).
However, with only Virtual Surround enabled I'm hearing louder guns, louder explosions, and a lot of sound effects I haven't even heard before like different death sounds (I had never heard the gurgling before) and artillery whooshing overhead.
So to those of us complaining about quiet sounds, I would recommend trying this. I don't have much experience messing with sound settings and I don't even know if these same options are available to people with different sound cards, so leave some feedback and let me know if anybody finds something that works better. After combing the forums and tinkering with the ROengine.ini to no avail this is the only thing that has even made a difference for me.
Hope this helps!
1. Go to the Control Panel and open your Sound settings (make sure you're under the Playback tab).
2. Open the Properties for your output device.
3. Click on the Enhancements tab.
4. Disable "Bass Boost and Frequency Protection."
5. Disable "Loudness Equalization."
6. Enable "Virtual Surround" (doing this should disable "Room Correction." If it doesn't for some reason, disable that too).
Try these settings first. If there is no difference, try experimenting with different combinations.
In my case, no enhancements at all made everything sound very weak. With different combinations of enhancements, things almost always sounded outrageously quiet (particularly guns and grenades).
However, with only Virtual Surround enabled I'm hearing louder guns, louder explosions, and a lot of sound effects I haven't even heard before like different death sounds (I had never heard the gurgling before) and artillery whooshing overhead.
So to those of us complaining about quiet sounds, I would recommend trying this. I don't have much experience messing with sound settings and I don't even know if these same options are available to people with different sound cards, so leave some feedback and let me know if anybody finds something that works better. After combing the forums and tinkering with the ROengine.ini to no avail this is the only thing that has even made a difference for me.
Hope this helps!
