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Is there any way to lower the volume of the music playing in the background? I don't want to turn it completely off but I can barely hear the game volume when it's playing. The main menu music is especially very loud.

In the options menu you find when you first start the game; first panel has a music control slider. Place it where your prefer.

Durk wrote:In the options menu you find when you first start the game; first panel has a music control slider. Place it where your prefer.

That's not what I'm asking, I'm asking about the volume.

Ok, then I do not know. I always play with music and sounds off.
Maybe someone else knows.

You could try modifying the music files, but I always play with the music off
myself as well.

DrPostman wrote:You could try modifying the music files, but I always play with the music off
myself as well.

Thank you, and it's great seeing a fellow Memphian. I'm from Bartlett. You?

Midtown. I've always been a Midtowner, except when I was in the USAF
and a brief few years of insanity when I lived in West Memphis.

Look in the ..\Civil War II\CW2\Settings folder if any of the .opt files has a line containing 'inoMusicVolume'.

If you cannot find it, add it to ..\General.opt, because that's where your personal settings reside, and that file does not get overwritten by patches, etc.

The line should look like:

inoMusicVolume = 60 # Any comment you might wish to add.

Set to anywhere between 0 and 100, and try out different settings to see what you like. Now off with you, you Memphis boys

Captain_Orso wrote:Look in the ..\Civil War II\CW2\Settings folder if any of the .opt files has a line containing 'inoMusicVolume'.

If you cannot find it, add it to ..\General.opt, because that's where your personal settings reside, and that file does not get overwritten by patches, etc.

The line should look like:

inoMusicVolume = 60 # Any comment you might wish to add.

Set to anywhere between 0 and 100, and try out different settings to see what you like. Now off with you, you Memphis boys

This is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you so much for the help German boy

DrPostman wrote:Midtown. I've always been a Midtowner, except when I was in the USAF
and a brief few years of insanity when I lived in West Memphis.

Haha West Memphis is the Detroit of the South. I'm guessing you're aware they city council are trying to take down that N.B. Forrest monument? They are also trying to take him and his wife's remains...

James W. Starnes wrote:Haha West Memphis is the Detroit of the South. I'm guessing you're aware they city council are trying to take down that N.B. Forrest monument? They are also trying to take him and his wife's remains...

People don't understand that Forrest did a mea culpa when it comes to slavery.
Still, if it will make everyone happy they could move the statue and the graves
to Elmwood.

DrPostman wrote:People don't understand that Forrest did a mea culpa when it comes to slavery.
Still, if it will make everyone happy they could move the statue and the graves
to Elmwood.

Yeah and also a lot of his personal bodyguard were his slaves, and he promised to free them when the war was over.

IMHO intentions are very meaningful, when assessing a persons actions; they breath life into understanding a person. So to me, it's less a question of 'what' NBF did, as 'why' he did it, and that is very difficult to ascertain with any certainty.

But you guys have made statements, which insinuate knowing what Forrest's intentions were, what values lead to his decisions. My question is, why do you feel the need to project what you believe to be Forrest's intentions onto his actions?

Captain_Orso wrote:IMHO intentions are very meaningful, when assessing a persons actions; they breath life into understanding a person. So to me, it's less a question of 'what' NBF did, as 'why' he did it, and that is very difficult to ascertain with any certainty.

But you guys have made statements, which insinuate knowing what Forrest's intentions were, what values lead to his decisions. My question is, why do you feel the need to project what you believe to be Forrest's intentions onto his actions?

Can you elaborate? Forrest's actions are put under a microscope, which are analyzed with modern norms in play. Do that with just about anyone at the time such as William Tecumseh Sherman, and you'll find his actions made him a man of his time. I don't know if that's what you were asking, but hopefully that mihgt clear something up.

Captain_Orso wrote:But you guys have made statements, which insinuate knowing what Forrest's intentions were, what values lead to his decisions. My question is, why do you feel the need to project what you believe to be Forrest's intentions onto his actions?

I'm going by NBF's own words:
Forrest : Memphis' first White Civil Rights Advocate

James W. Starnes wrote:Can you elaborate? Forrest's actions are put under a microscope, which are analyzed with modern norms in play. Do that with just about anyone at the time such as William Tecumseh Sherman, and you'll find his actions made him a man of his time. I don't know if that's what you were asking, but hopefully that mihgt clear something up.

Yes, of course. It appears to me that you are complaining about the local Memphis government considering or planning to move/remove his monument and, if I understand correctly, have his remains exhumed and rebedded elsewhere, and explaining his position during the war with his action after the war and the fact that he offered a number of his slaves their freedom for their service as his personal bodyguards.

I cannot honestly say what Forrest's true thoughts were after the war, but I know from his writings and what has been documented of him from after the war, that he unequivocally advocated reconciliation with the North, and integration of African-Americans as equals into society, which in any light, but especially in the light of recent history at the time, was not only honorable, but courageous.

However, the monument of Forrest depicts him in uniform during the war at a time he fought for exactly the opposite values. Therefore the monument celebrates some values--racism and enslaving African-Americans--, which is obviously insulting to many of the citizens of Memphis, and can easily be understood as advocating exactly these abhorrent values.

To me this situation is very obvious, and curious as I am, I'm wondering what thoughts bring you to, from my observation, a very different conclusion.

BTW I find the monument a great disservice to Forrest's legacy for exactly the reasons I've stated above. Everything Forrest did for reconciliation and integration of African-Americans is lost to the general public through the image represented by this monument. Perhaps that's not far from the intentions of those who erected it.

DrPostman wrote:I'm going by NBF's own words:
Forrest : Memphis' first White Civil Rights Advocate

Yes, I know about his service in the name of reconciliation and integration from after the war. That is of course not what I'm questioning. It's the image his monument represents in the present day, and this in the midst of a public which to this day experiences disenfranchisement and repression through exactly the values the monument appears to represent.

They've already renamed the park, and as I said, I'd be perfectly
happy to see the monuments and graves moved to historic
Elmwood Cemetary, a proper place for them.

I understand if they want to move the monument elsewhere if it's solely because of his uniform. However, the main reason they are trying to remove his statue and remains is that he was the leader of the KKK for a time. Which bothers me as an invalid reason because it started out as a gentleman's club, but he disbanded it when he left. In 1876 he actually volunteered to exterminate a lynch mob of whites for murdering 4 innocent black men defending themselves at a BBQ. Either way, many of my southern fellows for some reason don't acknowledge this, but in his will he actually did want to be buried in Elmwood. If they didn't use the "KKK leader" as an excuse I would be fine with it, because I don't Forrest to be remembered in Memphis as the Klan leader who committed atrocities on blacks, because he was the opposite.

The reality is that we live in a majority black city with a poor
education system when it comes to history. Moving the statue
and graves would be the best solution to put it to rest.

DrPostman wrote:The reality is that we live in a majority black city with a poor
education system when it comes to history. Moving the statue
and graves would be the best solution to put it to rest.

Exactly.

I wish there were a monument of him not having to do with the war.

The whole war, everything which led up to it, and everything that happened after it, all the way up to the present day, is such a huge and complex subject, an entire year on high school would be pressed to cover every important aspect of the entire conflict, which still lives on today.

Captain_Orso wrote:I wish there were a monument of him not having to do with the war.

The whole war, everything which led up to it, and everything that happened after it, all the way up to the present day, is such a huge and complex subject, an entire year on high school would be pressed to cover every important aspect of the entire conflict, which still lives on today.

When the KKK held a rally here in Memphis several years ago I am
rather proud of how little support they got. Only a few of their own
members showed up and the protesters, who were well behaved,
outnumbered them several times over.