Pagoda Question

[stillgolfing]

With hundreds of courses available to experience, I have generally been picking off of the top 400 Couses list, somebodies(?)Top 40 PGA Courses list, or the original 33 course available for PGA2000. However, occassionally, I get the urge to "Pot Luck " a course (usually because the described type or the name sounds interesting).
One such "Pot Luck"course was Pagoda. The problem I encountered was with a "global" sound (the trains rolling stock noise combined with an incessant train whistle) that was so loud it easily drowned out the play by play, which I had turned on, on every hole (well the first 6 at least, as that's as long as I could stand the noise). I was wondering if I have a unique sound card issue or that's the way the course sound was designed.
Thanks, Dave

[BrianZ111]

I designed the course so I can answer that. There are railroad tracks parallel to some of the holes so the idea was to add some unique atmosphere to the course. It is fairly loud for realism since the railroad tracks are so close and the course is on a small area of land with not many trees to block the noise. It lasts about 3 min. It was supposed to be set up so you would only get the train sound for about 1 in 4 rounds. This depends on how fast you play a round and what you have ambient sounds set to in your options though. I'm a fairly quick player and I have ambient sounds set to moderate so this is how I tested it. If you have it set to frequent you'd probably get it every round or maybe even more then once a round. If you don't want it ever, you could set ambient sounds to never when you play there. You wouldn't get any bird sounds either then though.

[stillgolfing]

Thanks BZ for the info. I will stress that I used the term "Global" for this sound because it played extremely loud and was constant (non stop - the train never went by) for the six holes I played (I usually play with a randomly selected computer golfer, so I'm guessing that's about 24 minutes for two to play six holes. I'll check my settings and see if they need adjusting, but I've got a feeling it is still sound card related. Had a similar issue with a couple of sounds in one Custom Designed Links 2003 course recently (crash to desktop when sound encountered). Since a few other Links players encountered this problem the designer provided an "unlocked" version of the course and users could remove the offending sounds and replace them with something similar, but it only affected certain sound cards on certain machines. I will update you on this after checking my settings.
Cheers, Dave