Every time i play a game for the first time i have to immediately turn the volume down to like 10 percent. Does anyone play games at 100% volume? Are games being made to accommodate people who are hard of hearing? Why does the game need to be so deafeningly loud what the fuck.

  • Mike_Penis [any]
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    3 years ago

    it's not that the games start at max volume, it's that the max volume is louder than any human being could tolerate.

    • blobjim [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I think it just follows the general rule that you should turn up application volume and turn down system volume, to get more accurate audio quality. I always have my headphones at about 14/100, although my monitor builtin speakers have to be maxed to hear anything.

      • Mike_Penis [any]
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        3 years ago

        i've been playing games on pc for around 10 years and have never seen that rule. interesting

        • blobjim [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Could be that I'm just making it up. I've never done audio programming or whatever so I don't know exactly how applicable it is.

          I think it's probably more about turning up software vs hardware but I dunno, here's an explanation: https://superuser.com/questions/492281/from-a-quality-perspective-what-is-better-turning-volume-up-in-the-software-i

          Might also just be more efficient leaving software at 100% because it might not have to do as much processing of the audio data(i.e. multiplying it by a ratio) since audio data is very large but that wouldn't excuse not normalizing the audio to proper levels beforehand.