fluxdadaone Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 (edited) As a player who plays with two monitors and often switches windows while playing a game I find it incredibly frustrating that a game that spent so much time putting in beautiful voiceover work would make it impossible for me to do other things while listening to a conversation. The fact that we don't have quest text makes it incredibly frustrating to be forced to keep the SWTOR window as focus just to get a quest. I'm often sending a tweet or quickly checking an email between questing or while on a taxi. It is just so jarring to have SWTOR with it's beautiful background music totally muted while I'm on ANY other window. I've read other places on the forums that "sound in background" was available and it is available in most modern games. While I don't want to cry wolf I really really want to give SWTOR a proper chance but without the ability to do other things while listening to a quest conversation I'm not sure how much longer I can handle it. I may have to wait until you guys add this feature (back) in in order for me to try SWTOR again. This is such a basic function I think it would be silly not to have it in the game. Even now as I write this I have SWTOR open and would love to be hearing the beautiful music playing but I can't because when I'm using the my web browser SWTOR is muted. I don't want to play my own music because I love the SWTOR score but as I'm playing it sort of turns into this crazy sound psychosis of either all sounds or total dead silence. Please please please listen to me and add the feature to have sounds play in the background while using windowed mode. Edited December 24, 2011 by fluxdadaone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterSaucy Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 I'd like this feature too, but it doesn't bother me so much that I won't play the game though. I'd also like to see an option to set the sound output to than default in windows, because I have two outputs, one to headset and the other to my speakers. I'd like to be able to switch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MookieFett Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 As a player who plays with two monitors and often switches windows while playing a game I find it incredibly frustrating that a game that spent so much time putting in beautiful voiceover work would make it impossible for me to do other things while listening to a conversation. The fact that we don't have quest text makes it incredibly frustrating to be forced to keep the SWTOR window as focus just to get a quest. I'm often sending a tweet or quickly checking an email between questing or while on a taxi. It is just so jarring to have SWTOR with it's beautiful background music totally muted while I'm on ANY other window. I've read other places on the forums that "sound in background" was available and it is available in most modern games. While I don't want to cry wolf I really really want to give SWTOR a proper chance but without the ability to do other things while listening to a quest conversation I'm not sure how much longer I can handle it. I may have to wait until you guys add this feature (back) in in order for me to try SWTOR again. This is such a basic function I think it would be silly not to have it in the game. Even now as I write this I have SWTOR open and would love to be hearing the beautiful music playing but I can't because when I'm using the my web browser SWTOR is muted. I don't want to play my own music because I love the SWTOR score but as I'm playing it sort of turns into this crazy sound psychosis of either all sounds or total dead silence. Please please please listen to me and add the feature to have sounds play in the background while using windowed mode. this is the most annoying thing about the game other than world pvp. I remember this being in the betas too :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baar Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 /signed I remember it being in beta as well. It was nice to be able to tab out during a conversation and still hear what's going on while replying to a friend on steam or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LossMinn Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 Add me to the list. I multitask constantly, same reasons as stated above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triss Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 Signed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quidix Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 Signed! Very basic functionality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moaradin Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 Yea, would be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tzian Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 /signed defo would like to see this implemented at some point Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehmoose Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 /signed I don't remember this behavior in Beta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezrille Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 /signed too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeKay Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 Yet another dual-monitor player /sign. I really miss (swtor) sound in background. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herberto Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 For real this would be awesome. I listen to music on my second monitor and while im listening to storyline quests/etc, im usually surfing between songs. Unfortunately, I miss all the story when i do this. /signed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rickii Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 /signed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBushidoh Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 As somebody who plays with 2 monitors this suggestion has two-thumbs up and a cheesy grin from me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaiLunn Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 Add me to the two monitors and multitasking crowd. Funny thing is, I often play and browse the forums at the same time. Playing on only one monitor just isn't the same after you've had two. -Kai-Lunn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tazflyr Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 This. Please. Soon? I enjoy having my game sounds from one set of speakers while I use my headset for ventrilo, etc. This is a very basic "need" for gamers and truly needs to be implemented asap. I rank this "fix" a lot higher on the priority list than adding new ops/flashpoints, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artlig Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 Signed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fornix Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 Count me in for this. Dead shame BioWare didn't include such a very basic feature in from the start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artanis Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 /signed We need that feature. Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swordy Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 /signed Another multiscreen player who would appreciate this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORJTsukasa Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 /signed Would love to see it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayno Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 would really love to see that back aswell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anavassa Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 /signed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MookieFett Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 this should be a 80 page thread considering its so simple to add Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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