Every time i play a game for the first time i have to immediately turn the volume down to like 10 percent. Does anyone play games at 100% volume? Are games being made to accommodate people who are hard of hearing? Why does the game need to be so deafeningly loud what the fuck.
Could be that I'm just making it up. I've never done audio programming or whatever so I don't know exactly how applicable it is.
I think it's probably more about turning up software vs hardware but I dunno, here's an explanation: https://superuser.com/questions/492281/from-a-quality-perspective-what-is-better-turning-volume-up-in-the-software-i
Might also just be more efficient leaving software at 100% because it might not have to do as much processing of the audio data(i.e. multiplying it by a ratio) since audio data is very large but that wouldn't excuse not normalizing the audio to proper levels beforehand.