Re-install..annoying guage wav

[mikeap]

Hello...I have an annoying wav file that has to be part of a guage. I cannot figure out which guage it might be.

I was wondering if it would be possible to reinstall my guage folder without doing a complete reinstall. If I do a complete reinstall, can I just overwrite files? Does anyone know whre to find the guage files that I could just copy over?

I have this annoying wav with different aircraft, so this filke must have overwritten a default file.

Thanks for any help!

Mike

[Ridge_Runner_5]

What is the sound and in which aircraft do you experience it?

[mikeap]

Hey Ridge,
Thanks for the inquirey.

The wav file that keeps coming on is a before takeoff checklist. The voice has an accent, (obviously not from the US.I don't mean anything by this remark.) and the recording is kind of loud and scratchy. It says something like"flaps, 20, 20, green". "takeoff ignition on. takeoff checklist complete". I'm leaving a lot of stuff out. It's much longer, and the real bad part is that it plays about every 2 minutes, whether you are taking off, cruising, landing, taxiing. Just about all of the time. There is a shorter wav that plays that sounds like it's from the same "author". It's not quite so annoying though. It happens on at least 3 different planes/panels. I haven't tried it on some of the others yet. All planes are "heavies". I believe it's a gauge because it plays with different planes. I tried to go through all of my wav files, playing them, trying to find it. No luck.

HELP!!!

Mike

[UPHILL3]

I was about to do a separate POST on this same annoying problem!

I believe this strange transmission comes from either a gauge or
wav file in a recent freeware download of aircarft, sounds & panel
by Kevin Nelson and Quinn Miller that replaced the DEFAULT
737-400 aircraft with four new liveries plus a custom panel.
I could not find it in the wave file (to Delete) and I was about
to start going thru all the gauges most likely to cause this...

Basically this transmission keeps going off every 10 minutes
or so in-flight.. It's driving me crazy! But the panel and
sounds are too good to discard (So I live with it)

Can anybody identify it?

[mikeap]

UpHill,

You got it!! That's the same panel I downloaded. Love the planes, panel, sound, and liveries...but hate that ##### wav!!! For thje life of me, I can't find it, and there is no contact info for the authors. If someone knows how to get in touch with them, please let me know!

Mike

[matsis]

This sounds like wav files programmed into a C++ gauge. The only solution would be to go through the associated panel.cfg and consecutively add
//
before one gauge line after the other until the sound playing quits. The gauge with the // in front of it is the culprit. You always need to re-laod the aircraft to experience the change in the (saved) panel.cfg.

Mathias

[mikeap]

Thanks Mathias,

This proceedure would identify the suspect gauge right? Then I would need to delete this gauge right?

Hey uphill. Want to help tackle this??

Also...When refering to a gauge...what does C++ mean??

Thanks,

Mike

PS. Mathias....as in Mathias Kok?? used to be with Lago??

[matsis]

Mike,
yes, the decribed procedure should help in identifying the supect gauge. If sveral gauges are involved in this it would of course complicate the matter. Just make sure that you only mark ONE single gauge entry at a time with the //. Only if you feel that multiple gauges are involved it may be a better idea to mark every single gauge entry EXCEPT for one...

C++ is a programming language (like A, B, C, Basic, Pascal, Turbo Pascal, ...) which is what the MS *.gau format is based on. The standard gau files since FS98 times are basically dynamic link libraries (dll files) that are programmed in the C++ programming language.
FS2002 introduced the text file based XML gauges that are mute as far as sounds are concerned so my assumption was that the gauges causing you annoiance must be of the C++ type where you have access to very sophisticated sound funtions if you know how to work with them.

And, no, got nothing to do with Lago, Mathias Elsaesser is my full name. If you type that into the flightsim.com file search you will find all the files I have submitted to this site, mainly being related to a certain Dornier 128-6 :-)

Mathias