Station Music Too Soft?

I was adding station music to some of my rides and it was virtually non-existant. At first I thought it wasn't working at all, but after turning up the volume a bit I could barely make it out in the background. In order to hear it comfortably, I had to turn up the volume so much that guests' screams were unbearably loud. Is anyone else having this problem or is it just an issue with my sound card?

Is there an option to turn up the sound effects? I don't have the game yet, but this might be a solution.

It might be an issue with your sound card. I was missing all kinds of sounds, and a driver upgrade fixed the problem. Everything is groovy now.

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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com
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I can hear all the sounds, but the game is missing background music. I have to start listening to my music while playing because it gets too silent.

Thats the one thing the game needs, music.

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The game really needs a mute button, I swear there was one in RCT.

Well, I downloaded the latest drivers and played around with some audio settings, and it helped somewhat. I can at least hear most of the music, but it's still very quiet; much quieter than RCT1 used to be on my old computer.

It's too bad there's not in-game adjustments of ride/guest/music levels. Oh well, station music isn't terribly important anyway.

Yes, there was a mute button in the first game. I miss it everytime the phone rings.

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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com
"There's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, when it's all in your mind. You gotta let go." - Ghetto, Supreme Beings of Leisure

There is a way to mute it...I can't remember off-hand (I am at work). I will look into it tonight when I get home. I seem to remember it was on the "park entrance" window - try right clicking on the title bar?

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Anyone notice any missing sounds?

When you add water, it used to make a little 'water' sound. I dont' hear that any more. I also don't hear ducks quack when I click on them. And at the end of a scenereo, the peeps all applaud, but there's no cheering or applauding sound. Anyone else experiencing this? Also, it seems that if I have a few rides playing music, it'll mix two of them together, but a third one is completely inaudiable until I move the others off screen. Weird. The other game had no such problems, and I have a very standard audio card with up-to-date drivers (SB Live!).

I have no problem hearing any of those sounds. There's a check box in the options that has something to do with sound mixing... I forget precisely what it says. Try checking it, exiting the game, and coming back.

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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com
"There's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, when it's all in your mind. You gotta let go." - Ghetto, Supreme Beings of Leisure

I still get the water sound, the duck quacks, and balloon pop as well. I didn't fidget with a thing...it was just there. I get ride music as well. One thing...when you move off the ride to the ride next to it on your screen, the music quiets down sooner, so maybe that could be the case with some of you. Anyone understand that? It was in my head better than what I could type, trust me.. :)

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FYI, there is a mute button. Click on the Park Information icon at the top, and once that window is open click on the Park Gate icon. That will mute everything. Sound will come back as soon as you close the window however.

I'm still experiencing weirdness with the sound.

I tried that check-box, Jeff, and it doesn't help at all (in fact, it makes things worse). But I also noted that the sound driver has a selcection for 'Primary Sound Driver' AND "SBLive!", so I switched it. Suddenly my sounds were working again... for a moment. It seems the moment I use the path tool, all those incidental sounds drop out (like the sound of clicking buttons, quacking ducks, popping baloons, adding water, etc).

If I go back to the sound options and select my driver again (I can either change from one to the other, or just reselect one of them, it doesn't matter), my sounds are back. But not for long...

Very frustrating. Hopefully it'll get fixed in a patch soon.

I just verified I'm not the only one experiencing this problem, and that the other person also has an SBLive! card.

Is anyone on here using an SBLive! card? Can you verify if you are or are not having these problems?

Has anyone tried adding more than one entrance in the toolbox design mode... It allows you to add as many entrances as you like but will it allow you to play this way... I am going for the Six Flags Worlds of Adventure type Layout....

SBLive must be a real piece of crap because RCT2, Hyper Rails, and various other games (as seen on other message boards) all seem to have problems with that damn card. I use the cheap-ass sound that came on my last motherboard and it works just fine!

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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com
"There's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, when it's all in your mind. You gotta let go." - Ghetto, Supreme Beings of Leisure

Well, except that I've *never* had any sound problems except for HyperRails and RCT2. RCT1 has no problems, and neither has any other game I've ever run.

Given how popular and ubiquitous this card is (it comes standard on most Dell's and Gateways), and given that RCT1 had no issues with it at all, it seem strange that RCT2 has problems, or that you'd think the problem MUST be the card rather than the code.

Hmm, now that I've looked into it, I'm having the same problem as Spryboy. Certain sounds come and go. I posted in another thread about my ducks not quacking; well they quacked until I started building stuff and then they shut up again. I'm running a Santa Cruz Turtle Beach something-or-other. It came with my computer.

I have an SBLive...no problems here.

I have an SB Live Value. After I realized that I was missing a lot of the sounds, I discovered that changing my sound device to "SB Live! Wave Device" and enabling the sound mixing option seemed to work.

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