Modified sound files

[»Ceiu]

As most of us know, the sounds for this game are too damned loud. So, I've gone ahead and run these through Sound Forge's volume filter and reduced them to 10% volume which makes ?sound=10 roughly equal to the current ?sound=1.

 

Download, unpack into sound, enjoy.

 

sound.zip

 

 

Note: Some of the sounds were more quiet than others and are really quiet now... so you may want to do a selective update. Also, L3 guns have a nice hum in the sound file after the gun sound which I may fix eventually... But yeah.

[Samapico]

A common bug is that when you enter, most (not all) sounds get set to a volume of like... 15, whatever your ?sound= value was. And you have to type ?sound=#, where # is a DIFFERENT value than your current ?sound value, and then ?sound=1 or whatever you really want it as.

[LeftsideChaos]

If you're running Vista or Win7 you can open the Volume Mixer and change continuum's sound to be different than everything else..Ive got it set to 1/100.

 

I suppose the sound pack would be good if your running xp or linux though.

[»Ceiu]

@Sama:

Even after fixing that annoying bug (I've found I have to do ?sound=10, ?sound=0, ?sound=# to get what I want), it's still obscenely loud compared to everything else.

 

@LSC:

Holy shit, you mean MS did something useful with the new audio stack (aside from fucking over Creative's nice little monopoly)? Impressive. That's the only thing I really hate about XP -- the whole audio system is god awful and has a number of issues. As it is now, my volume bar is only useful from 0-25%; at 25% or above on the bar, it's at max volume. That and the fact that some programs are noticeably louder than others... Yuck.

 

So yeah, seems this is only useful for people still using XP.

[Samapico]

If you're running Vista or Win7 you can open the Volume Mixer and change continuum's sound to be different than everything else..Ive got it set to 1/100.

 

I suppose the sound pack would be good if your running xp or linux though.

Does it remember the setting?

 

Also, can you mix volume for separate browser tabs? If it needs to be separate processes, does it work with Chrome since each tab/plugin has its own process?

[LeftsideChaos]

Yes, it remembers the setting. Not sure about separate tabs, FF doesn't support sep processes yet (and Im not installing chrome).

 

Even if it did support multiple processes, what good would changing individual volume be? It would disappear forever when you close the browser.

[Samapico]

I just hate it when some sucky 90's html pages find it fun to play some poor MIDI background music or some shit like that... and sometimes you might have music playing on a radio in another tab for example.

 

I was just curious