volume adjustment in vista x64 SP1

[Titan]

I have an M-Audio sound card, revolution 5.1. Latest drivers.

Windows media player, and the adobe flash player (like on youtube) allow me to adjust volume fine.

Winamp, my M-audio 5.1 driver control panel, and even windows volume control have no effect. The volume is the same if I slide it to zero.

I saw in the control panel for sound there is a checkbox for something like 'allow applications direct control of this device', it was checked, I uncheked it and rebooted with no change resulting.

I really need winamp to have volume control as I am recording out of it using their replay gain calculation feature.

How do I fix this? I assume when windows auto-updated me with some media center crap this happened.

 

[vshah]

can the windows volume control mute the sound?

 

[extide]

Are you using WASAPI for your output in winamp or direct sound? You may need to switch to direct sound if you are using something like WASAPI or ASIO.

 

[Titan]

switching to direct sound gave me control in winamp. Windows mute didn't work, but a mute for winamp in windows volume did.

 

[extide]

So, is that ok or are you still looking for a better solution?