MrsPlatypus

This is beginning to fly WAY over my head, I'm not interested in learning how to separate audio outputs, I just want to chase my goats with a bucket and build a wonky windmill without going deaf.

No, I mean just music. There are separate sliders for music, weather, UI sounds etc. Everything else is behaving normally, music volume is all over the place and when it breaks like I described, music gets several times louder than all other sounds in the game.

Nope, all music.

(edit) Spoke too soon, it seemed to work, but now it looks like when I restart and the music starts fading in, it starts at the volume I set and as it fades in the volume rises well above comfortable levels. Wow, how did I not think of this! Thank you, it worked. After setting the volume to 100%, restarting the game and bringing it back down to 15%, the volume is as it should be, I no longer need to set it to 3% to hear the rest of the game. I'm not going to submit a bug report though, I don't have a GitHub account and I don't want to put my data on yet another platform just for this one thing.

I have been playing 1.20 all along, I haven't updated since I first installed the game. I'm not using any new hardware and there were no Windows updates around the time I noticed it. I was consistently playing with 15% volume and I haven't touched the volume settings at all. I set it lower when I went looking for bees. Then I turned off the game and during the next play session I wanted to put it back at 15%. And it was like the entire intended music volume (1-100%) got compressed into that 15% range I originally set. As in - 15% was what 100% should be, and everything above 15% was just deafeningly loud.

I usually play with music volume set to 15-20% but recently when I start Vintage Story, it plays much louder, to the point where I have to drop it all the way to 2-4% to be able to hear anything else. Setting it back to 20% is deafeningly loud, 30% is around the max volume of my speakers. Has anyone encountered this? How do I fix this / "reset" the volume setting back to the range of "very quiet - normal - loud" instead of "very quiet - loud - very loud - nuclear explosion"?