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Originally Posted by geopsun
The sound settings aren't useful for changing the overall volume level. As you said, you either have to go to the XP settings or the speakers themselves. But what it does allow you to do is set relative volumes. An extreme example of this would be for players who play on 1x time compression. They can set their speech volume much higher than the rest of the game. So their watch officer calling a new contact can be heard over the TV, while the sound of the thunderstorm in the patrol area cannot. 
"General" affects normal ambient sounds in the game (e.g., internal sounds of the U-boat, weather, waves, etc.). "FX" is almost exclusively the sounds of combat (e.g., weapons fire, explosions, etc.) |
geospun,
Thanks for posting about 'General' and 'FX' settings. I have trouble sometimes with lingering ambient sounds, mostly excess winds, like stormy weather winds still heard in calm seas.
Or even diesel-/electric motors running, even when they've been turned off. It usually happens if the game is paused. I use headphones while playing so the unwanted sounds are a bit annoying.
I'm going to turn down General sounds a bit, and a bit louder with the FX setting.
p.s. I didn't know people were 'allowed' to watch TV while playing SH3.
