ShortCut to Control Volume?

shankly1985 · 9 Oct 2013 at 13:54

Hello is it possible to control volume with shortcut on Keyboard? Say like when playing bf4 I could have CTRL+F1 50% volume etc?

I using Microsoft sidewinder keyboard and Roccat Kave with Asus Xonar D2X

At the moment controlling the volume while in full screen game is all guess work I never know what % am at.

Thanks

paradigm · 9 Oct 2013 at 13:57

You could always bind the macro keys to run NirCMD and it's associated switches?

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html

shankly1985 · 9 Oct 2013 at 14:13

paradigm said:
You could always bind the macro keys to run NirCMD and it's associated switches?

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html

Thanks
What switches would I use to set 50%??

paradigm · 9 Oct 2013 at 14:36

NirSoft Website said:
Increase the system volume by 2000 units (out of 65535) - nircmd.exe changesysvolume 2000
Decrease the system volume by 5000 units (out of 65535) - nircmd.exe changesysvolume -5000
Set the volume to the highest value - nircmd.exe setsysvolume 65535

So I'd imagine that 50% (of 65536, seeing as 0 is a value) would be 32768.

With that in mind, setting 50% would be nircmd.exe setsysvolume 32768, 25% would be nircmd.exe setsysvolume 16384, and 75% would be nircmd.exe setsysvolume 49152

I've just tested these and it works fine.

d_brennen · 9 Oct 2013 at 14:44

SharpKeys - make an unused key into volume up/down/mute. I have num / as mute, num * as volume up and num - as volume down. Might not be so great if you use your number pad for actual numbering stuff, but at home I use this. SharpKeys writes changes to the registry, so doesn't need to be running (or installed) to work

shankly1985 · 9 Oct 2013 at 15:08

paradigm said:
So I'd imagine that 50% (of 65536, seeing as 0 is a value) would be 32768.

With that in mind, setting 50% would be nircmd.exe setsysvolume 32768, 25% would be nircmd.exe setsysvolume 16384, and 75% would be nircmd.exe setsysvolume 49152

I've just tested these and it works fine.

Thanks a lot for that reply

d_brennen said:
SharpKeys - make an unused key into volume up/down/mute. I have num / as mute, num * as volume up and num - as volume down. Might not be so great if you use your number pad for actual numbering stuff, but at home I use this. SharpKeys writes changes to the registry, so doesn't need to be running (or installed) to work

Will also look thanks

PixelChef · 9 Oct 2013 at 15:14

AutoHotKey is another option

gillywibble · 11 Oct 2013 at 09:36

3RVX works for me.

shankly1985 · 13 Oct 2013 at 00:49

Thanks guys I have tried what you guys have shown and the Winning software is 3RVX

Edit
It was almost perfect, it dont display when running games