Games Volume far too low..

[Khajiirah💗🧡💛💚💜]

The Games Volume is very low, is there a fix or workaround for it yet?

Please Help! :o(

[Sik Style]

YES

[Khajiirah💗🧡💛💚💜]

Found a solution, in the Games Settings File i set the
MasterVolume=1.000000 to MasterVolume=3.000000

So it is three times louder finally

[Sik Style]

wow thx

[Khajiirah💗🧡💛💚💜]

Hm but it seems to have no effect. :o(

[Khajiirah💗🧡💛💚💜]

The file is in C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\Bellwright\Saved\Config\Windows\

it's called "GameUserSettings.ini"

inside there, if you search for "Sound" you find:

[/script/mist.mistusersoundsettings]
MasterVolume=3.000000 <-i raised this to 3, but the game is still quiet.
MusicVolume=1.000000
SFXVolume=1.000000
UIVolume=1.000000
NarratorVolume=1.000000
VoiceOverVolume=1.000000
AIVoiceOverVolume=1.000000
bMuteNpcAIVoices=False
bMuteWhenBackground=False

Problem is, if someone joins my discord now, or sends me a message in steam, it will kill my ears as i have to raise my Speakers up to nearly 80% to barely hear the game.

I hope they fix this soon. :o(

[vyraka]

I just wanted to bump this up as it is frustrating the heck out of me.

I tried wearing my headphones to see if that helped. I turned it up so loud that the headphones were crackling, and I could still barely hear anything from the game.

Please fix asap! Thank you!

[JS1HUNDRED]

Can you imagine being a dev playtesting this game and not being able to hear a word any NPC says, and thinking 'yes, this is ready for release'. Wow.

[★ ace ★]

Just turn the volume up, you probably got it turned down somewhere, or you can go to the device settings and give the device a decibel boost, usually does it by percentages. In Windows there is also a setting for voice communications it will reduce other sounds by 80 or 50% by default, I forget which one.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3280828568

[JS1HUNDRED]

Wow, we never thought of 'just turning up the volume'. Thanks for that, bud

My issue is specifically NPCs voices when in conversations. There is no Windows setting for that. The problem is within the game.

[MaanrikV]

@JS1HUNDRED ... are you sure you did not turn off the NPC voices in your options/setting .... I personally turn them off as they are annoying ... that may be your issue (turned off , not that they annoy you :) ) P.S its the 'In game' setting I refer too :)

[★ ace ★]

Originally posted by JS1HUNDRED:

Wow, we never thought of 'just turning up the volume'. Thanks for that, bud

My issue is specifically NPCs voices when in conversations. There is no Windows setting for that. The problem is within the game.

I was responding to the person that created the post. Yours might be some other issue, I think the NPC's have 3 lines that goes through a conditional so it all sounds the same to me at this point.

[JS1HUNDRED]

Originally posted by MaanrikV:

@JS1HUNDRED ... are you sure you did not turn off the NPC voices in your options/setting .... I personally turn them off as they are annoying ... that may be your issue (turned off , not that they annoy you :) ) P.S its the 'In game' setting I refer too :)

Nah its turned on

[ᗷᑌᒪᗩᗰᗩTᗩRI]

Originally posted by Khajiirah💗🧡💛💚💜:

The file is in C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\Bellwright\Saved\Config\Windows\

it's called "GameUserSettings.ini"

inside there, if you search for "Sound" you find:[/script/mist.mistusersoundsettings]
MasterVolume=3.000000 <-i raised this to 3, but the game is still quiet.

Problem is, if someone joins my discord now, or sends me a message in steam, it will kill my ears as i have to raise my Speakers up to nearly 80% to barely hear the game.

I hope they fix this soon. :o(

The idea was good. It's the execution that lacks a bit of something, as the game sets it back to 1 when you quit or simply start the game after the changes you made. You'd have to make the .ini read-only in order to keep the changes. It will then stick and work. Another (my preferred) method would be this:

Use Notepad++ (always, as it does not change codings of codes!) and open the GameUserSettings.ini. while the game is running

Search for "master..." that gets you to the respective "MasterVolume" setting

Increase 1 by whatever you want. I also tried your 3, and it seemed sufficient.

Now press F5, like you would to refresh a page in a browser. This will also refresh the ini in the running game, if Notepad++ would only know which programme to use to apply the altered .ini to. ... 🤔

A pop-up appears with an empty field for a programme to be selected. Now click on the three dots to the right of it and navigate to the game and link the game-exe with its opened .ini, but caution!!!!

Take off yer headset or whatever you have on or in yer ears, and if the global volume is already set to 80%, reduce it back to normal first, otherwise you could damage yer hearing!

Then link the Bellwright exe to its .ini to run it, and boom... the game is indeed three times as loud without having to change any Windows/system volume!

For the time being, you can create a shortcut to the .ini on your desktop, and whenever you want to play the game, you can also open the .ini-file, make changes and apply them again with F5. You can even save the set programme to an own hotkey, e.g. Shift+F5 and give the hotkey a new name.

Then Notepad++ would immediately send the changes to the running programme when you hit Shift+F5 or whatever your shortcut is, and Bellwright would reload/update the .ini and apply any changes you made to the game on the fly!

No .ini-saving is required this way! You can change whatever you want in the .ini and NOT close it that way, or if you close it at the end of your game session, just don't save the changes you made if you just wanted to test something, and it will revert back to the .ini it was before the changes.

This is better than making it read-only, as read-only also prevents you from making changes to the settings in-game yourself. They would be reset after closing the game as the game cannot save them in its .ini.

However, you can close the .ini again after your changes as long as you have applied them to the game with F5 and as long as you change NOTHING in the game that would change the .ini again. The new volume will remain applied to the game as long as you play, and may be set back to 1 when you close it. Same procedure next time, hence the desktop shortcut to quickly open the .ini, change the master volume, refresh the .ini with F5 (Notepad++ already knows which programme to send it to now), close the whole shebang and play.

Hopefully this helps a few more people who have problems with quiet sounds or whatever in games in general, not just in Bellwright.

Edit:
Tested it with a chap, and that's not exactly how it works. The game indeed saves the new master volume in the .ini even after closing it, but you HAVE TO apply it from within the .ini with F5 to save it this way, not just saving it. So F5, then the popup, then navigate to the game.exe etc. as above and execute it, BUT:

Do NOT start the game first and then open the .ini and make the change, because after F5 will be executed the game will be started with the new .ini setting, in another instance! This means you will have the old one and the new one with the new volume running, and this might freeze the one or other machine! Don't panic, Ctrl+Alt+Del, bottom right, click the ON/OFF switch and choose restart. PC will reboot then. But to prevent that from happening, just fire the game up through the .ini with this F5-refresh trick. Navigating to the exe through Notepad++ and executing the exe means you do start the game by that! Close out the .ini. then. Next time you start the game the volume change will still be there.

[Caide Calico]

+1 for Audio fix