[dev 1009] Volume adjustment window broken

I could find no tag that fit this description best.

But if you go to the in-game menu, open up the volume tab, and reduce all three sliders, even to 0%, the environment / weather effects and some other small sounds still play at 100% volume.

You can technically go to the ffxiv configuration tool 'out of game' and disable the entire sound driver, and this works. But to adjust the game volume you have to completely leave the game.

If I'm crafting, I like to have some music playing, or if I'm partying, doing leves with friends and we want to use Ventrillo, I have to disable the sound because I can't hear anyone 'well' over the environment noise.

If you reduce all fields of volume in-game, it should 'actually' reduce all volume output.

What she said. I would like to see an "Ambient Noise" volume slider added as a separate option.

I'd like a mute feature for each bar. When I'm crafting I get tired of the synthesis music after a while and want to turn it off entirely, but the rest of the time I generally leave the music on. Right now I have to slowly move the slider all the way up or down to do this.

Yea i hate that too. Needs to have a Ambient sound bar so we can turn that wind howl and running water down.

That wind-howl is incredibly annoying

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Originally Posted by Sigmakan

That wind-howl is incredibly annoying

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Yeah I know! It drives me nuts in XI, oh wait wrong game.

I agree, but those of you on Vista/w7 can right click the little sound manager in your taskbar and disable the sound for ffxiv until they do. Thanks to a guildie who told me about this.

Greetings!

Thanks for the feedback regarding the issue. I'll work to get your feedback over to the appropriate people.

As for trying to find an appropriate devtag for your topic, don't worry about it! Not every topic needs to have a devtag for us to find it! We're still working each day to go through the forums and see what's going on, so you don't need to rack your brain to try and find something remotely similar to your topic if there doesn't exist one! :D

Woot and stuff ^^

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

Greetings!

Thanks for the feedback regarding the issue. I'll work to get your feedback over to the appropriate people.

As for trying to find an appropriate devtag for your topic, don't worry about it! Not every topic needs to have a devtag for us to find it! We're still working each day to go through the forums and see what's going on, so you don't need to rack your brain to try and find something remotely similar to your topic if there doesn't exist one! :D

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Awesome. Its reassuring to know you guys are proactively (attempting to) keeping up with us.

Dev attention amazing.

I'm been playing since December muted, because I couldn't turn down the background noise that was overbearing the movies I have to watch, just to keep things fun.

Update: The dev. team is going to be checking into this and I hope we'll have an update for everyone soon.

Thanks again for the comments!

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Originally Posted by Seikninkuru

I agree, but those of you on Vista/w7 can right click the little sound manager in your taskbar and disable the sound for ffxiv until they do. Thanks to a guildie who told me about this.

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Thanks for posting that i'm on w7 and I never noticed that before.

Glad to see this is being fixed. Sometimes I want to listen to the ingame sounds and music and other times I like to pop on standup comedy or some out of game music while Doing craft or dol stuff. But the ambient sounds never go away. In all honestly please just merge the CONFIG utility fully into the game client like 99% of mmos already do, its a hassle to need to restart the client and play with a second program to do all this.

Hello everyone, back with an update for you.

Unfortunately, the volume settings for those sounds aren't separated out in a way that makes them adjustable. In the future, the team is planning to update it so that it is separate; however, there are other things that are higher priority for the development team work wise, so it will take a bit of time to take care of this.

What a stupid way of coding :(

That said, thanks for giving us an update. Glad it is going to be fixed and I agree there are more pressing matters that needs to be taken care of first.

Wurd up. There are more important things, the ambient sounds not being able to be adjusted in game is just a minor annoyance.

Sounds alright with me. This will be a nice bug fix someday, but 1.17 is and should be priority right now. Patch is gonna be a game changer!

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Originally Posted by Reika

Wurd up. There are more important things, the ambient sounds not being able to be adjusted in game is just a minor annoyance.

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So-so, I have all sound /music on zero and I continue to hear the wind. It's annyong when you talk with others in ventrilo/skype/others.

Well i know it is annoying, I turn my sounds down when i feel like watching an anime while crafting too, but still hear the annoying wind noise. It still isn't as important as other issues in the game. If it isnt something they can immediately tend to because the old dev team was 'not so good' at coding things, then we will just have to wait on this one.

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Originally Posted by Mr_Gyactus

So-so, I have all sound /music on zero and I continue to hear the wind. It's annyong when you talk with others in ventrilo/skype/others.

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It was posted before, but in case you overlooked it: If you're using Windows 7 or Vista, you can turn off the sounds completely. Just click on the sound icon in your system tray, then click on "Mixer" and you'll get a list of all currently running applications with sound output. Drag XIV all the way down and the game will be dead silent.

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Originally Posted by Efrye

It was posted before, but in case you overlooked it: If you're using Windows 7 or Vista, you can turn off the sounds completely. Just click on the sound icon in your system tray, then click on "Mixer" and you'll get a list of all currently running applications with sound output. Drag XIV all the way down and the game will be dead silent.

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This is one of the features I like about Vista and 7 is independent volume sliders for the applications.

I'm also glad that SE has acknowledged this. UI improvements such as this will assist the game in the long-run (or at minimum, for future audio).

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Originally Posted by Efrye

It was posted before, but in case you overlooked it: If you're using Windows 7 or Vista, you can turn off the sounds completely. Just click on the sound icon in your system tray, then click on "Mixer" and you'll get a list of all currently running applications with sound output. Drag XIV all the way down and the game will be dead silent.

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However, that doesn't help anyone who is playing in fullscreen, since you cant access the volume mixer without closing the game down. (No one should be in fullscreen anyways, but ya know...)

Is it me or did they remove the "crafting" sound? I mean, before when I muted everything ingame I still could hear the tinkering, but now its gone? or am I going crazy :D