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it should be illegal for games to force unpausable audio before presenting a volume slider.
(hexbear.net)
its fine ill just lose my hearing when launching your game while being unable to change the volume - forcing me to quickly alt tab, change program specific volume, and alt tab back before missing anything. latest example i put the game at 1% system volume and its still loud...
for reference, my entire system volume is set to 50% by default.
Wait, if the game volume is 1%, and the system volume is 50%, shouldn't the resulting volume be 0.5% of maximum? Do you have that amp setup from Back to the Future?
Sorry, I'm joking. To be more helpful, this reminds me an old problem PulseAudio introduced (and then disabled) on Linux some years ago, it was a feature called "flat volumes". The idea was to avoid the need to have two volume adjustments (if only one application used the sound card), one a per-application one (done in software) and then another from the sound card, which is wasteful and can result in lowered audio quality if one is set very low. So they got rid of the per-application volume in the case that only one application was playing audio.
But the result would be that, if an application (like a game) changed it's volume (by setting the application volume), it would in effect set the hardware volume, resulting in this kind of sudden loud noises even if you previously had your system volume set all the way down.
Maybe on your system it works similar to this "flat volumes" feature and maybe that can be disabled somehow?