Help-In game sound too low

[SKUD]

OK I have given up trying to solve this on my own. I cannot get but the faintest engine and voice sounds out of the game. My volumes are cranked to the max. I have tested all my hardware and can blow my eardrums out with every other application. I was doing 2 things when I lost sound volume. One was exiting out of a flight and changed volume settings without going back to main menu and 2 I was screwing around with TS3 volume control plug in settings at one time. I have uninstalled the game. Uninstalled TS3 and cleared out its config file (no easy task to find them all). I have played with device settings for the sound card. Nothing will get me more volume.
Any help would be much appreciated.
SKUD