In game Volume
Hi, anyone else noticed how in game volume is quite low compared to the other games? Especially the surround sound (5.1 system here) is extremely low. I have turned all the volume to the max but it's just quite quiet compared to the other games well basically compared to every application. I'm playing PC version. Volume kind of increases with "stereo mixdown" but i don't want a stereo output i want full 5.1 surround sound output and there is no other way but to turn volume up on my amplifier but then noise from the amplifier starts coming through because of the low output the games giving. It's like turning your windows volume to 40% and then try to increase volume by turning a knob on your amplifier. Amp noise just rises up and you can't hear properly (because it's at 80-90% of it's capacity)...
In your "documents" folder then find "need for speed" You will see 2 files... Open with wordpad the file where it says "profile". Then find 3 lines which are sound effects music and speech. Crank them up to "4.0000". Then save and close the file. start the game and go to audio options and if you see big line then it worked. You cranked it up over the limit the game lets you crank up. But still even with this music is so low compared to sound effects. At 4.000 they're perfectly loud but music is very silent. This only happens with surround option when selected stereo mixdown audio gets properly loud without editing settings.