legacy volume control troubleshooting

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.

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

thanks

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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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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I never can adjust the midi volume from in legacy.

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.

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