Thread: Sound settings

I was just curious to know if there were any. I know there is an audio options button but its freaking useless, it brings up the steam audio options and it doesn't do shit to in-game settings. Anyway, is there any actual options like there is in source? ie mic input/output volume and game volume in particular.

For overall volume,

volume 1 //Range from 0 to 1. Default is 1


For music volume,

snd_musicvolume .7 //Range from 0 to 1. Default is .7


I don't know of any other volume related options.

I want my 50/50 sound scape back. Not this 65/65. It makes it sound like people are closer than they are & it annoys the shit out of me.

Look at the code post by h0llywood1. Section in there for game volume. He sets it up to allow volume up/down buttons using scripts.

Post your CS:GO autoexec/config/cfg/tweaks/settings - Page 7 - Steam Users' Forums


The command is voice_scale provide a value from 0.0 to 1.0 .. I haven't messed with it much and I think it impacts both incoming/outgoing VOIP.

I think the mic test setup in steam is just to normalize your mic volume so you do not clip or sound horribly low.

Edit: To be honest I havent had much time to test all these variables I have on my todo list. Need to get a monkey sometime to help me out.

What I have in my config in regards to sound:


snd_mixahead "0.05"
snd_headphone_pan_exponent "2"
snd_musicvolume "0"
snd_headphone_pan_radial_weight "2"

It seems to work better for positional sound than defaults.

Originally Posted by Madmax (Grape)

What I have in my config in regards to sound:


snd_mixahead "0.05"
snd_headphone_pan_exponent "2"
snd_musicvolume "0"
snd_headphone_pan_radial_weight "2"

It seems to work better for positional sound than defaults.

Does this bring it closer in line to CSS settings? I do really well hearing people in CSS. Although, tonight in that 1v3, I could hear a guy I might not have if it was the 50/50 CSS settings. Wish I got that on demo.

How about a setting to stop basically muting my background programs when i join a lobby, For instance if i have music on in the background, I control the volume with my keyboard for the music, However GO does the wonderful job of basically making it so quiet i can barely hear it at all, A quick fix is to load the lobby first THEN load WMP or Pandora, or w.e, But still an option to turn off that auto mute background noises would be Real nice.

That sounds more like the Vista / Win7 habit of reducing volumes bigtime (in Sounds > Communication settings, set "Do Nothing").

Windows 7

Go to your Control Panel via Start -> Control Panel
Click on Hardware and Sound
Then click on Sound
After that click on the Communications tab
Finally check the Do nothing radio button under the When Windows detects communications activity section