Please let me turn off the intro music in the launcher

[Aeon221]

Here's the scenario. I'm on teamspeak with friends, I turn on CK2/Vicky2/etc and my ears are filled WITH THE SOUND OF MUUUUUSIC.

And now my friends are all inaudible and I can do nothing about it for a good few minutes until the splash screen pops and I can run to the options menu and save the bleeding remnants of my ears.

If I could turn it off in the launcher BEFORE turning on the game I could still listen to music during single player without shredding my eardrums in MP.

Please Paradox, HALP.

 

[Emperor Marcus]

Its under audio options you can turn off or lower the music there via toggle bar. You cant do it prior to launching the game though but the game will keep the settings so that on subsequent launches the music is off or is lowered. So the easiest solution would be to remember to lower your music audio prior to exiting the game.

 

[AndrewT]

Or just run those games directly from the exe file, skipping the launcher.

 

[Emperor Marcus]

Or just run those games directly from the exe file, skipping the launcher.

No he means the music that plays while you load the game.

 

[Aeon221]

No he means the music that plays while you load the game.

Yeah, exactly. And turning it off always is a shit solution. If I want to listen to music while playing alone I'm deafened on my next MP play unless I remember to turn it off again.

A launcher option would be far superior.r

 

[Emperor Marcus]

Yeah, exactly. And turning it off always is a shit solution. If I want to listen to music while playing alone I'm deafened on my next MP play unless I remember to turn it off again.

A launcher option would be far superior.r

Well my solution is the only solution. Far better than none.

 

[riknap]

a modding solution would be to replace the launcher intro music file with a blank/empty/silent audio file with the same name...

 

[Ekyman]

a modding solution would be to replace the launcher intro music file with a blank/empty/silent audio file with the same name...

He wants to be able to turn it on and off easily.

 

[Quendorsof]

CK2, Vicky2 and EU3 have text files with the settings in them either in the game folder itself or in its folder at documents. I assume changing the music_volume value in these files before launching the game would work.

 

[Marshall18]

the DH and AoD launcher have the option to disable music before starting up
Would be a nice feature for the rest

 

[Weijun]

In the root directory of each of your PDS games, there should be a file named settings.txt. Look for the lines:

sound_fx_volume=100.000000
music_volume=100.000000
scroll_speed=50.000000
camera_rotation_speed=50.000000
zoom_speed=50.000000
mouse_speed=50.000000
master_volume=100.000000
ambient_volume=50.000000

and adjust accordingly before you launch the game.

 

[safe-keeper]

Completely agree. HOI3 TFH takes an eternity to load for me, and during that time it's either listening to the soundtrack for 11 (!) minutes, or muting the sound and also losing the audio from Spotify, YouTube, etc.

A simple "Mute music during initial loading" checkbox would fix this. Hoping they add this for EU4, EvW, etc.

 

[EUnderhill]

If I want to listen to music

...I turn off the game and go to the piano. Never saw the need for in-game music

 

[safe-keeper]

In the root directory of each of your PDS games, there should be a file named settings.txt. Look for the lines:
(...)
and adjust accordingly before you launch the game.

I suppose the best makeshift "solution", other than replacing the intro music with a dummy wave file (one second of silence or somesuch), would be a desktop shortcut straigh to the file, allowing you to mute the music while the game was loading. As a matter of fact, I think I'll do so now .