About Clear Volume and how the course is made
Clear Volume is a single five-step course about trying a desktop game for the first time, written for readers in Australia. It is published by DAVITON s.r.o. There is nothing else on this site: no news, no reviews, no rankings and no second topic.
Who publishes it
The publisher is DAVITON s.r.o., Bílkova 855/19, Staré Město, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic. Company registration number 24697168. VAT number CZ24697168. The address for anything about this site is info@clearvolume.online.
Material on this site is written by the DAVITON s.r.o. editorial team. We do not publish individual bylines, author profiles or staff photographs, because nothing here depends on the authority of a named person. The course is a set of general procedures and public sources, and it should stand or fall on whether those are accurate.
How the course was structured
The sequence comes from the order in which a beginner actually runs into questions, rather than from the order a technical reference would use. Step 1 frames the decision, because a reader who has not described the commitment to themselves cannot evaluate anything else. Step 2 comes second because it is the only question that can be answered with a measurement, and settling it removes most of the uncertainty people carry into the rest.
Step 3 comes before installation rather than after, which is the main structural choice in the course. Classification, cost structure and account terms are all much easier to act on before an account exists, and most readers meet them in the opposite order. Step 4 is deliberately generic: it describes what every installer does, so that it remains useful when any individual product redesigns its screens. Step 5 exists because the decisions in Steps 1 and 3 are only worth making if something later checks them.
Each step ends in a checklist because the course is meant to produce written answers rather than a feeling of having understood. The All checklists page exists so that the written part can be done on paper away from the screen.
What each step relies on
Step 1 and Step 5 are general guidance about how connected desktop games are commonly structured. They make no claim that any particular game behaves in a particular way, and where a reader needs a fact about a specific title, they are sent to the vendor's own pages or to the Australian Classification Board.
Step 2 relies on the operating system documentation published by the operating system vendors themselves, which is linked from the step, and on the general convention that publishers list minimum and recommended requirements. Step 4 relies on the same documentation for installation and startup behaviour.
Step 3 and Step 5 rely on Australian public bodies for anything that touches classification, consumer rights, privacy or online safety: the Australian Classification Board, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, the eSafety Commissioner and Scamwatch. We link to them and describe what they are; we do not paraphrase their rules, because paraphrase goes out of date and the originals do not.
Where we do not know something, the course says so. The one named product is described only from the description its vendor supplies through the affiliate network, and anything outside that description — price, purchase model, hardware requirements — is left out with a note that the vendor does not state it.
The commercial relationship, stated plainly
This is the part most sites bury, so it goes here in the method section where it belongs. Clear Volume carries paid affiliate links. One game, Raid: Shadow Legends, is named in the course, and it is named because the publisher has a commercial relationship with the affiliate network that promotes it. If a reader follows one of those links, registers and starts playing, the publisher is paid a commission.
So the honest statement is this: the product mentioned by name is one we have a commercial relationship with, and it was not selected by comparison against alternatives. What the commission does not decide is what the steps say. The checklists would be identical without it — they are about your computer, your limits and your household, and none of those change according to who pays us. The course can be completed in full without following any link, and the five steps work for any desktop game.
What does decide the content is a short list: whether a procedure works on all three desktop operating systems, whether a claim can be traced to a primary source, whether a beginner can act on it without buying anything, and whether leaving the affiliate link out would weaken the step. Where the answer to that last one is no — which is most of the time — the link is simply absent.
The full explanation, including where in the course the links appear, is on the Affiliate Disclosure page.
How often it is reviewed
The course is reviewed at least twice a year, and sooner when one of three things happens: an operating system changes where its system information lives, one of the linked Australian pages moves or is replaced, or the vendor description behind the named product changes. The date of the most recent review appears in the footer of every page on this site.
Corrections are welcome and are the main reason the contact address exists. If something on a step is wrong, outdated or unclear, write to info@clearvolume.online and say which page and which sentence.
What this site deliberately does not do
It does not collect anything about you. There are no forms, no accounts, no newsletter, no analytics, no cookies and no third-party scripts, and the checklists do not remember which boxes have been ticked. The site requests nothing from any other server when you load a page. The Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy set that out in full, and they describe the site as it is actually built.
It does not rank games, review them, or tell you that you need one. It is not affiliated with, authorised by or endorsed by any game publisher. It is not accredited training, there is no certificate at the end, and there is nothing to sign up for — you read the five steps, do the checklists, and that is the whole of it.