Perhaps an older convention but still stupid non the less. INSTALLER MUSIC. Music that plays as the game is installing. WHY?! So we can sit and watch the bar go to 100? The thing that gets me, is that you can never turn it off. I’m the type of guy who constantly has internet videos loading in the wings and have figured out how to maximise my internet usage (time wastege) through 20 different tabs, not a second goes by that I am not getting stimulation from dogs back flipping or Parkour injuries. So when an installer… installing, the obvious thing is to NOT watch the bar but to do something else, such as watch a sweet video. But now my Wall-E trailer has ominous music associated with the occult. WALL-E IS NOT AN ASSOCIATE OF THE OCCULT! He is most probably involved in a workers union.
I hope they add music to when you unbox the game, like one of those gift cards. Maybe even the store salesman can sing me a few bars of the theme as I purchase it.
In Vista you can control volume of individual application. Which is about the only nice thing about sound in Vista.
1 | Suraj July 22nd, 2008 at 10:58 pmAlt-Tab? I forget if that mutes the sound or not, and being at work i have no sound here anyway. Oh the humanity!
I guess it’s kind of as annoying as the insane wav music you get with keygen applications and such (not that I ever have participated in such activity).
I like the idea of the store clerk singing to you though. Could be quite amusing. I find even when im listening to music full blast on headphones in GAME, some dullard employee still starts talking to me. Maybe if they were singing my favourite song, i would talk to them(sorry for slight tangent there).
2 | Continental Drift July 23rd, 2008 at 9:18 pmIt can’t be as bad as the sub-par chillout music and multi-cultural hello-athon you get when installing OS 10.something (Ocelot or whatever edition it is now). Its some kind of perfectly honed irriation device, designed by Steve Jobs, to make me grind my teeth into a fine, calcium powder.
3 | Samorai July 24th, 2008 at 1:58 amGet a decent task manager like Process Explorer from Sysinternal (now Microsoft), dounle click the installer process and a new windows pops up. Now have a look at the tab called “Threads”, when there is a thread with “wmd” in it, usually a dll… kill it. If you’re lucky the installer won’t shut down and keep installing without problems, and oh the music’s gone.
4 | Levar Ripley July 24th, 2008 at 11:38 am