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.
100% volume should be too loud for basically everyone, that way the optimal level is somewhere 0-100 for basically everyone
100% should be the the ideal volume for most people and the default. Just let the volume slider go to over 100% for people who need it louder.
The first 2 minutes of starting every game is yelling in agony and trying to franticly find the audio sliders. That's just good game design. :meow-bug:
Also, the game is in totally the wrong screen resolution, but you can't change it until after the intro sequence.
Oh of course, all unskippable too btw, because you need to get the player right into the action! Only nerds need to fix their graphic options beforehand.
It's really hard to get sound to be the same actual decibel production across every computer.
But it’s really noticeable with games compared to video/youtube :soviet-hmm:
Porn is also somehow 300x louder than the rest of the internet. They'll do whispery dirty talk and then just SCREAM at the top of their lungs
Most electronics offer a max volume setting, which sets your default to a safe level. Excellent for children who will instinctually crank everything. I have mine set to 70%.
For reference, inner city traffic tends to be around 85 dB, which will cause irreversible hearing loss after 8 hours of exposure. Most headphones cranked can reach about 110 dB. If you’ve ever spent a day working with your headphones cranked, you’ve probably killed some cilia that way. But it can also be cumulative. Bottom line is your ears need to rest throughout the day.
Either 110dB is vastly more painful than I thought, or all of the headphones I own go way past that. Going above about 35-45% is when stuff gets too loud for me. Add a decent amount of amplification and I have to lower it even further.
That's far preferable to having the audio be extremely quiet like on the very legal movie streaming sites I've used. I'm not trying to crank it up to 100 on system and browser volume to hear any dialogue. Even worse when literally none of the subtitles line up with the dialogue because they're for different versions.
I also have this problem with DVDs and Blu-rays I rip myself. Idk what I'm doing wrong with subtitles but they're almost never right on timing with Plex, and the built in timing adjustment thing seems to do nothing there.
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I play most non-FPS games on mute or I play my own music/podcasts anymore.
I haven't been blown away by a game's sound production besides Disco Elysium in years.
I used to do that, but it messed with my ability to really love the game.
Lol I do the same. Better than too quiet at least, but it's weird games start at their volume maxed
it's not that the games start at max volume, it's that the max volume is louder than any human being could tolerate.
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.
i've been playing games on pc for around 10 years and have never seen that rule. interesting
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.
This is complicated by different operating systems handling volume differently. Some of them have their "neutral" volume (i.e., source-matched +/-0dB) at points other than 100%.
The goal for highest audio quality and greatest comfort is to keep everything at neutral and only adjust the last link in the chain. So if you're playing a movie, you keep the movie at 100%, keep the OS at 100% (or whatever neutral is), and only adjust the volume on your speakers/stereo. You also want to turn off OS-level adjustments, like auto volume leveling and other things which might make it harder to get the exact results you want.
I've had this complaint for over a decade lol. It's true and it's incredibly annoying
Decent headphones are usually really quiet compared to cheap ones at the same source level. My akgs had to be near 100 to be at a normal volume. So the max volume has to be loud.
It used to be most people would be using computer speakers with their own volume control on them, so it made sense to default to max volume to drown out any electronic noise in the signal chain. The practice of defaulting to max stuck around even after this wasn't the case, out of habit.
Games have recently started to default to reasonable volumes, because everyone directly plugs headphones into their PC now.
Which is really annoying when you want to use them in any kind of noisy environment. Luckily the HD280 can handle a bit of volume (one glorious day I'll get a pair of HD600s or 650s.)
You're kinda expected to have your headphones turned down or the computer volume turned way down in the volume mixer. So if you have headphones that don't have volume controls on them, games will always be too loud.
