Variable Volume -- Bug?

Variable Volume -- Bug?

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Posted by: Donari.5237

Donari.5237

I’ve had the worst time trying to keep the game at a consistent volume. For days on end it’ll be too quiet, then suddenly everything is crystal clear or even far too loud. Sometimes relogging or zoning affects the volume. Changing the sliders while in game seems to do little.

This morning it was on the quiet side. I moved the sliders towards max (no effect) and shut the game down to go eat lunch. On return it was about right. But it’s been creeping up, and now that I’ve entered the Retribution PS the battle music is blaring audibly through my house. It doesn’t help that today I have a persistent headache

I had it all about right for a while. Then I spent an evening playing PopCap Bejeweled Twist through their website, that game coming out so painfully loud that I hit its mute button. Right after that GW2 got too quiet, until the sudden swings in volume I’m now experiencing. It’s done this before, seemingly after I had to adjust volume for something in Firefox, but sometimes the ups and downs in volume come merely from zoning without my having changed anything in game or computer settings.

So this could be a game bug or could be an issue with my particular computer. If I need to give specs I’ll need someone to tell me how to find them, I never remember. (PC running Win7).

Variable Volume -- Bug?

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Posted by: Donari.5237

Donari.5237

As a followup, I had the game at a good volume on Monday. I then did not play on Tuesday or Wednesday. This evening on login everything’s drastically muted. I think my computer startup sound was also abnormally quiet, so it could be my specific system rather than something on the game side, as noted above.

It’s so frustrating not hearing the game.