Is this thing just allergic to Steam?

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I've been having my struggles with the thing in FS2020 but I've now bought FS2024 as well after trying it through Game Pass for a couple days first. In the Game Pass version I had the A350 installed and the sounds we're near perfect all around but now that I've moved to playing FS2024 through Steam the sounds are on the same level of unusable as they are in FS2020. I have both games through Steam and in FS2024 there we're no problems with the sounds when playing through Game Pass.

[Eddie]

Hello

I need a little more information. What do you mean by "sounds are unusable"? What is going wrong with the sounds? 

Thank you
 

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Just now, Eddie said:

Hello

I need a little more information. What do you mean by "sounds are unusable"? What is going wrong with the sounds? 

Thank you
 

I've done a couple forum posts about it in the FS2020 forum side but I'll list a few here as well.

In FS20 there is no ground roll sound at all. In FS24 it's there but barely audible and in the Game Pass version of the game it was fine, even a little loud.

In FS20 the outside engine startup sound is unbelievably loud to the point where I won't even go to the external view because it actually hurts my ears. The aircraft OIS sound settings don't affect this sound at all and to make it not so loud with the in-game audio settings I have to basically mute engine and outside sounds. This is slightly better in FS24 so I can go to the external view when starting engines but it's still quite loud. Once again this was not a problem with the Game Pass version.

In FS20 during engine start in the cockpit view the engines are nearly completely silent until a specific point in the startup (I can't remember what exact moment but it's around the time the engines properly spin up when getting fuel). At that point the engine sound becomes quite loud for a few seconds until going almost completely silent in idle power. Mostly the same in FS24 but the loud startup sound just lasts longer through the startup.

When starting the takeoff in both FS20 and FS24, there is a point in the thrust (around 40-70%) when the engine sound gets very loud before going to normal levels again. I've only managed to get this to happen by putting in a lot of throttle quickly. Didn't notice this either when playing through Game Pass.

In FS20 after takeoff in the climb, many if not all sounds are mostly coming from the center of the cockpit making it very uncomfortable in the climb having more and louder sounds in one ear only. Haven't noticed/properly looked out for this yet in FS24 so cannot say if this is there as well.

And just to say it again. None of these audio issues we're there when I was trying the game and aircraft on on the Game Pass version of the game. If it helps, the version of the A350 I was flying on Game Pass was I think 1.0.4 so I can't say anything about the newer versions.

There are some new audio issues I noticed when playing on the Steam version of FS24. One of them being, every time I load in and go to the cockpit view there are many extremely loud sounds from engines spooling down to buttons being clicked to a very loud "explosion" like sound you'd hear on touchdown in a hard landing.

I can try my best at providing video proof of these if needed. I'm not saying the aircraft is unusable in it's system and the actual flying part of it. I enjoy it a lot and think it's great to fly. It's just that the amount of problems with the sounds makes it a very uncomfortable experience to the point I'd rather not fly it and have to listen to it.