[Feature Request] Always gamesound on while game/window not focused

[Mikhail]

Hello,

Can we have a Button in sound settings "alway play sound"? I like to hear gamesound while the gamewindow has no focus.

1. As I like to stream on Twitch sometimes, I dislike streaming games without this option. It is weird if I have to do stream settings on my second monitor and the game sound goes on/off/on/off for watching people.

2. I like to hear alarms while browsing this forum

[LameFox]

If you are on steam you can use -nosoundthrottle as a launch option. I don't know how to do that on other platforms though.

[azaghal]

If on GNU/Linux and on GOG, I usually edit the start.sh to include the option in the run_game function, should look something like this (I add a couple extras in there):

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# Actions
run_game() { 
echo "Running ${GAME_NAME}" 
cd "${CURRENT_DIR}/game" 
chmod +x * 
 ./"testandlaunch" -nosoundthrottle -nocputhrottle -skipintro -showfps

}

Some of these should really be part of the game settings, though.

[Mikhail]

Thanks for the replies. Will really help me
But yes, please an option in the menu.

[charlie1024]

I think this will not be an official feature, based on previous X.

Even with X3, there's nothing of gamesound when the game is minimized.

Technically, just making that option won't be very hard one for devs, so I think there's another reason to not introduce the feature. Of course, I also want to see this option in-game.

[Falcrack]

If I didn't know about -nosoundthrottle, I'd have asked for an option to do this ages ago. But still, I agree that stuff like this should be in a game setting and not some obscure knowledge only obtained by playing close attention to the forums. Same thing as for example the config editing to make the container magnet a toggle.