On the very first start of osu! after an install, it plays a random song in the library (or tutorial if you didn't restore songs), at full volume. I can't turn down the volume in-game either due to the login-prompt locking focus. Depending on the environment, song playing, and/or overall speaker volume (gg if you have headphones on), this could be pretty... frantic.

I preferred how it was in the past where nothing would play on the very first startup since the library wasn't cached.

You shouldn't have your speakers at an intensity where something at 100% volume is too loud...

Full Tablet wrote:

You shouldn't have your speakers at an intensity where something at 100% volume is too loud...

I suppose that's a good point, but I have no issue with mostly anything else on my computer (games, chat, etc). To be fair though, the other games I play start off around 80-90% Master volume.

The only other thing aside from osu! that is rather loud are YouTube videos, and I have quick access to the volume slider from the player itself, or the ability to just flat out pause it (via video click, space bar, or pressing the visible pause button). osu! forces me to either minimize it to get to the taskbar and adjust the volume (which takes a bit of time; or longer if you're already panicking from the volume), keyboard mute/volume adjust (not available on all keyboards), or go turn down my physical speaker (isn't nearly as easy since my volume is on the back of the subwoofer which isn't even my reach).

I believe a good suggestion would be to just start osu! off at like 80% volume after a clean install, and then let the user up the volume if they want.

What about volume mixer settings on windows? You can change volume settings on individual programs simultaneously.

Fr33z3R wrote:

What about volume mixer settings on windows? You can change volume settings on individual programs simultaneously.

That's also an option, but generally takes more time to get to that than just turning down the overall volume, or muting it.

Just to clarify, volume isn't an issue after the very first start and after you're logged in. Once I actually login, I just turn the volume down, and everything is good to go from that point and future sessions.

I do a rather large amount of OS reinstalls, and practically every time I start up osu! for the first time, I totally forget about it being "problematic" volume-wise (in my case), and end up scaring myself basically :p

My speaker volume setup (both physical speaker and Windows) is set to optimal levels for majority of the things I do/play (my set volume levels expect content to be played back around 80-90% volume basically). The few things that do go to 100% by-default though I just have to slightly turn down.

A YouTube video for example, I see that it starts out on max volume. I notice this before the video actually starts playing (I get like 2-3 seconds to do this), and I lower the volume via the visible volume slider. No problems there

Touhou 14 is another game that starts on max-volume, and I react the same way essentially. The only difference is, I start it out Windowed, and can quickly access my volume button on the taskbar, or just Alt-F4 close it.

osu! on the other hand, I start it up, it fullscreens (well, borderless fullscreen, but it still covers my taskbar), and plays whatever song it happens to choose at the time (or tutorial). Remembering that I can control volume in osu! via mouse-wheel, I naturally go try that first (being in slight-panic that it's already overly loud), but can't do this because the login prompt takes focus away from osu!, and I can't focus into osu! until I get rid of that box (either by logging in, or closing it and going offline). Seeing as closing the box and going offline would just make more effort later, I just figure I may as well login. At this point, I'm rushing to login, and a few times I either mistype something, or Bancho is being slow or down, further delaying the volume-turning-down process...

Not really too sure how else to explain it, but I surely can't be the only one who's ran into this? As I mentioned, every other game I play (aside from TH14) has its master volume set lower than 100% conveniently, and I'm free to adjust it later (not that I have to though). I imagine developers do this just to prevent this exact situation?

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