legacy volume control troubleshooting

[michaeljay]

Whenever I run Legacy.exe WITH sound (when disabling "all sound" this doesn't happen), Legacy resets my wave/directsound volume level in Windows, rendering all PC sound almost inaudible: very frustrating to say the least. and it's not limited to DirectSound; if I disable Directsound in Legacy and leave sound effects on, or MIDI music, it still lowers the volume in Windows (resets it?)

I'm running WIN 98 with a SB Live! AWE 32 card. anyone have any ideas as to how to stop Legacy from doing this? it's the only program I use that does this ... thanks for any replies.

[michaeljay]

er, almost forgot. i'm running legacy version 1.40a for Win/32 with glide/openGL support.

thanks

[DarkWolf]

Most Windows programs use the Window's mixer for volume control. It happens to me also, since I have MIDI volume to 0 in Legacy, it sets the Window's mixer to 0 and doesn't change it back.

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[Gherkin]

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Easy, but definitely not the right way to code volume control. The mixer is a untility for the user to control his overall volume on the different devices his soundcard works with, so its not for applications to screw around with. Indeed very frustrating.
BTW: DirectSound has the ability to playback sound with different volumes (even many more different effects) without touching that mixer... I thought legacy was already using that right? Can be mistakin tho.


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[Agent Spork]

I never can adjust the midi volume from in legacy.

[Aliotroph?]

What Legacy should do is store the settings before it changes them so it can change them back when it exits. Sounds like a simple fix but then again I don't know much about the guts of windows. http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/wink.gif

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