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Quake 2 Vanilla - Regulating CD Music With Command Line
Posted by Strarshot on 2025/05/20 18:22:35
Hey Everybody,

I'm playing the original 1997 vanilla PC version of Quake 2 and everything works perfectly. But the music is way to loud and drowns out the sound effects. I saw that there is a command line that I can put in the console to regulate the volume of the music. However when I tried it it didn't work. But maybe thats my fault for putting a spacebar to many or the command wasn't written correctly in the first place. Thats why I wanted to ask: could somebody write down the exact way of useing that command for regulating the music volume and show me how to regulate its numbers correctly (i.e. 0.4, 0.5 etc).
 
#1 posted by gila on 2025/05/22 22:15:16
What was the command line you saw?

The command line arguments and console commands (or variables) are a different thing, though some console commands can be used as command line arguments.

Since you're playing original version of Quake II, I assume you are using the original .exe and not modern port. Here's an old page that has console commands and command line parameters:

https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~portnoi/quake/quakeiicom.html

And I don't see anything related to the music volume in that list. There is only s_volume, which is for sound effects. Original Quake II had music implemented as playing the audio tracks from the CD. Which if I remember correctly was an analog signal coming via 4-pin cable from the CD-drive to the Sound Card.

So try lowering the CD volume slider a bit in Sound Mixer in Windows. The original game has no music volume in the options due to that reason. 
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