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Faint sound playing Dead Rising 2

Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by DrWhistler, Jun 10, 2011.

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Game sound (Music / effects) are fine for games such as Rift, NFSShift, DeadSpace 2. But with Dead Rising 2 its very faint even though I have system and in game audio settings maxed.

Anyone experience driver issue with the M17xR3 like this?

Hopefully it just somethign with the game and I'm trolling their forums for answers.

DrWhistler, Jun 10, 2011

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There is this thing in Windows 7 that when you start a game it creates a slider for the game sound volume in the Windows volume control. This allows you to control volume for Windows, games and other apps individually.

I had the same problem with one game a while back. Can't remember which one. Anyway the fix was to alt tab once the game starts. Open sound volume control/mixer and use the slider for your game volume to increase the volume.

Note: The slider will be there only when the game is running.

GandalfTW, Jun 12, 2011

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Unfortunately I had this issue and it went back to the headphone jack issue.

LVNeptune, Jun 12, 2011

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