pev69: Yeah I have had that "automatically reduce wolume" always off as it is now too, I checked. And yes Win7 has that individual program sound mixer and I just confirmed that since I can alt-tab out of Stasis I can reduce the sound volume through the windows mixer, and it seems to remember the setting even when quitting and restarting Stasis. So that seems to be a solution for the too loud volume in Stasis. Still, I'm a bit disappointed that your game still has this kind of issue with its own volume control. I also saw an older post (I don't remember where) about the same kind of problem that was left unresolved, so I'm not entirely alone with this thing.
Thanks for your quick reply.

pev69: Thanks. I don't think my setup is anything special, it is a Gigabyte mobo (Intel LGA 2011-3) (from 2016) with a Realtek ALC1150 codec, which was quite a popular integrated audio solution at the time as I understand. But yeah nice that at least windows mixer could help in your game. This is the first time that I can remember where I have had to rely on that in a game and I have played a LOT of games over many many years :)

pev69: Sorry, money's too tight right now for me to get any extra games (time I have; money, not so much). And I do not need a million options, I just need the basic ones (graphics, control and sound) to work as one would expect today.

st3r01ds: Please allow me to add my 2 cents. I am gaming on a Gigabyte B550 and AMD 5600x. I am using the native sound on the board. Not really an issue, but I have an AMD 6600xt video card.

The config.ini in my %appdata% directory is being written with the wrong settings upon exiting the game. I manually set every volume to 30, but some of the settings change. The settings in the file config.tmp2, (when present) are ok.

config.ini (set values to 30, then start and exit without playing):
[config]
FULLSCREEN=yes
RESOLUTION=Auto
FILE=Stasis.vis
Brightness=100
RESIZEABLE=no
LOGLEVEL=info
TEXTSCALE=0
UseTextureForWidescreen=yes
configUpdated=12:25:27_3|21|2023
MusicVolume = 30
SoundVolume = 30
SpeechVolume = 30
MovieVolume = 30
GlobalVolume = 100

config.ini (set values to 30, then start and exit new game started):
[config]
FULLSCREEN=yes
RESOLUTION=Auto
FILE=Stasis.vis
Brightness=100
RESIZEABLE=no
LOGLEVEL=info
TEXTSCALE=0
UseTextureForWidescreen=yes
configUpdated=12:25:27_3|21|2023
MusicVolume = 100
SoundVolume = 80
SpeechVolume = 30
MovieVolume = 30
GlobalVolume = 100

GlobalVolume is set 100 no matter what, SoundVolume only changes to 80 after a game is started. Maybe an internal variable is getting set to the default, instead of honoring the config.ini?