I re-installed Sims 3 on my new PC last night and I'm having an issue which I've never encountered before. I have all of the sound sliders turned to about halfway, and all of the sounds stay consistent in their volumes except for game music (CAS, Edit Town, etc). A couple of songs will play with consistent volume, but once the third or fourth song starts to play the volume is much louder yet no changes are reflected in its volume slider. Muting and changing the sliders at this point does nothing. The only thing that fixes it is when I preview a random song from the Music menu and then return to CAS or Edit Town or whatever it may be. Even then, the fix will stay for one song only, as the next song is back up to the high volume.

I have no CC installed, and I am running version 1.67.

Anybody know what might be causing this and how I could fix it? I hope I explained my problem clearly enough, it's a little hard to explain!

It's been awhile since I heard those awful jingles, except when doing a clean run to check something on vanilla, so I am unsure what this phenomena could be.

Though if you're interested to shutting off the sounds from those interfaces (load, CAS, Buy&Build and few other stuff), here's a mod that might help you with it: http://simsasylum.com/tfm/index.php...d-june-29-2013/ (requires a free registered-account to view content and download).