No external sounds and no radio chatter sounds in Windows 10

[grover1]

Hi all,

Was forced to upgrade to Windows 10 recently from Windows 7. Whenever I switch to an external aircraft view, I get no sounds at all. I'm assuming that there's a glitch somewhere?

Any suggestions as I'm completely lost

Thanks,

Chris

[MajorMagee]

It's been years ago now, but I remember something similar happening when I made the switch to Win 10. I seem to think it had to do with an incompatibility with the sound drivers, and how they were trying to do environmental/special effects. Are you using the generic Windows plug and play sound driver, or a dedicated one?

I'm on a newer computer now and Win 10/ CFS3 doesn't seem to have a problem with the Realtek HD Audio Manager that came with it (No Environmental Effects, Loudness Equalization Checked, Equalizer using the Powerful Preset).

[grover1]

As far as I know, I'm using a RealTek sound driver, so I'm assuming it's a generic sound driver. Any suggestions? I've finally started getting back into CFS3 after so long.

[33lima]

Have you applied any compatibility settings to CFS3?

Running Win 7 on a dual boot 10/7 PC here and don't recall if I played CFS3 in Win 10 before adding 7 on an SSD (mainly to play BoB2 without issues) but - if only as it's a very easy thing to do - it might be worthwhile locating cfs3.exe, right-clicking on it, and in the menu which appears, selecting Properties/Compatibility, ticking 'Run this program as an administrator' and 'Run this program in compatibility mode for:', trying different values in the drop-down - I have Windows XP (Service Pack 3) compatibility set.

[grover1]

Have you applied any compatibility settings to CFS3?

Running Win 7 on a dual boot 10/7 PC here and don't recall if I played CFS3 in Win 10 before adding 7 on an SSD (mainly to play BoB2 without issues) but - if only as it's a very easy thing to do - it might be worthwhile locating cfs3.exe, right-clicking on it, and in the menu which appears, selecting Properties/Compatibility, ticking 'Run this program as an administrator' and 'Run this program in compatibility mode for:', trying different values in the drop-down - I have Windows XP (Service Pack 3) compatibility set.

Turned out to be a very simple fix. Just had to set the sound driver to headphones and now the audio works flawlessly!