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Jul 15^th, 2011 at 8:54pm

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hey ive downloaded and installed some planes and some of them are silent, or I can only hear it in cocpit and not when im in 3rd person. its a problem throghout a lot of ac that ive installed. but some of them have their own sounds and they work fine

one of them that only has interior sounds is the B52 for fsx. and ive installed the b52 panel (which works fine)

There is sounds in the b52/sounds but the exterior sounds just dont seem to work.

ANother plane that doesnt have any sounds inside or out, I think its the mirage 2000 or sumthing.. again, there are sounds in the sound folder but they dont seem to work.

Do I have to put all sounds in fsx/sounds? or what?

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Reply #1 - Jul 15^th, 2011 at 9:15pm

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A lot of add-ons for FSX are actually for FS9. open the sound folder, and you are likely to find a sound.cfg file that has something like:

[fltsim]
alias=beech_baron_58\sound

What you need to do is make sure the aircraft after the equal sign is in your airplane folder. If it's not, change it to one that is similar that you do have.

In most cases, if you are dealing with a commercial jet, the old FS9 add-ons are aliased to the 737-400, in which case, all you need to change is the "400" to "800".

Addendum: The above is the usual "sound problem" (That'll teach me for skimming the header.. Tongue

It's hard to tell with some sound problems. If the download comes with a separate sound folder (outside the sound folder in the airplane folder) the contents of that external sound folder usually goes into the FSX sound folder.

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Reply #2 - Jul 15^th, 2011 at 9:32pm

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ok well the plane(s) im reffering to have their own sound in the sound folder in the ac folder.

but for some reason they are not using the sounds that are there

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Reply #3 - Jul 15^th, 2011 at 10:42pm

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exactly what plane(s) are you dealing with, links would have been nice so that we can check them out also to see what the problem is and try to help you figure out a solution.

it could be something as simple as your sound slider is turned down too much on ENGINES, or ENVIRONMENT.

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Reply #4 - Jul 16^th, 2011 at 3:54am

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michaelb15 wrote on Jul 15^th, 2011 at 8:54pm:

one of them that only has interior sounds is the B52 for fsx. and ive installed the b52 panel (which works fine)

There is sounds in the b52/sounds but the exterior sounds just dont seem to work.

It would help if you can be more specific - a file name or link to the page it's posted on.
I assume you mean this one. http://simviation.com/1/search?submit=1&keywords=B52x.zip&x=12&y=17

The sound doesn't work for me either. I don't know enough about sound files to know why. To fix it you can alias it to an aircraft with its own sound files or find a suitable 3rd party sound package for it.

PS. On further investigation the included sound package seems to be for a twin-engined prop.

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