Volume control for sound effects

Karsten75 · January 17, 2011, 12:34:11 PM

CW1 allows only to modify the in-game music volume, leaving it up to the PC's volume controls to modify sound effects. If one wishes to listen to external music sources, this can be annoying or disruptive, as it seems not possible to reduce the game's sound volume while playing without also impacting the volume of all other applications on the the PC.

Please, can CW2 have discrete controls to modify game sound and game music?

Thank you!

knucracker · January 17, 2011, 12:57:23 PM

What you described is a good reason to do it...
I'll see what I can do.

Kamron3 · January 17, 2011, 02:20:00 PM

Well, on Windows 7 it allows you to control the sound of individual applications, but not everyone has Windows 7, so yes, I do believe that this is very good idea. :)

Echo51 · January 17, 2011, 02:25:58 PM

Induvidual application sound was introduced back in XP, if not before unless im remembering wrong..?

Grauniad · January 17, 2011, 03:17:33 PM

Unless you can provide a link, I think you misremember. From what I recall one used to have little apps to do that. :) I'm not putting my head on the block here, but I think application sessions were introduced as part of Vista.

However, in-game volume control isn't that bad an idea, IMHO, especially if it has hotkeys for on-the-fly volume control. What's too loud one minute may not be loud enough the next.

thepenguin · January 17, 2011, 05:34:48 PM

IT IS NOT PART OF XP!, at least not yet ;)

Kamron3 · January 17, 2011, 05:38:54 PM

Quote from: thepenguin on January 17, 2011, 05:34:48 PM
IT IS NOT PART OF XP!, at least not yet ;)

And it won't be unless you download 3rd party software. Get Windows 7 today!

thepenguin · January 18, 2011, 10:03:39 AM

[off-topic]lol[/off-topic]

I would really like a seperate sound effect volume control.