how to turn off background music?

[ramileous]

The background music is getting kind of old and there are times when i just want to hear the sound of the boat and ocean, how can i completely turn off the music while playing the game. (note: am not talking about the gramophone)

[Von Manteuffel]

In SH III I think the music volume control on the Options menu controls both the in-game music and the gramophone, so - if you want to keep the gramophone - the best way to get rid of the in-game music is to go to your

Program Files\Ubisoft\SilentHunterIII\data\Sound\Music folder

make a backup copy of the sound files inside the folder and keep them somewhere safe ( e.g. a new folder named "MUSICBACKUP" ) in case you want to restore them and then simply delete the files from the data\Sound\Music file.

If this causes problems - it's a bit more complicated because you'll have to replace the sound files in the data/Sound/Music folder with the same number of identically-named files you have backed-up, but make each one, say, 10 seconds of silence. You'll only have to make one piece of silence and then simply copy and re-name.

[Lzs von swe]

It´s a long time since I did this, but you can turn music of in Options on the Main Menu. Should be in the Audio section and it does not affect the gramophone.

[Reece]

Hi, if you want to actually edit out any particular track just go to the data\Sound\Music folder & edit the music.cfg file by placing a semicolon in front of the line, example:

[NORMAL]
Tracks=1
Track1=Silence.ogg
;Track1=Stalker_1_Mix.ogg
;Track2=Stalker_2_Mix.ogg
;Track3=Stalker_3_Mix.ogg
;Track4=Stalker_4_Mix.ogg
;Track5=Stalker_5_Mix.ogg

[TENSION]
Tracks=5
Track1=Tension_1_Mix.ogg
Track2=Tension_2_Mix.ogg
Track3=Tension_3_Mix.ogg
Track4=Tension_4_Mix.ogg
Track5=Tension_5_Master.ogg

In this, only the music for "TENSION" plays.:yep:
You can also see how easy it would be to put your own music tracks in!:up:
Cheers.