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Volume jumps only when I open this one application

Anonymous
2020-11-29T17:06:34+00:00

Every single time I click on steam, my volume goes from whatever I had before, to 50. Every time. And I have zero clue how to fix this. It's extremely annoying because when I'm listening to music or talking to friends, they'd go from a fine volume to extremely loud and hurt my ears. I've asked the support team on Steam to help but they said they've never heard of it so they told me to contact windows about it. I've tried everything from disabling and enabling drivers, telling communications to do nothing in the sound settings, updating every driver, and still no difference. This started happening a couple months ago after a windows update. What can I do to fix this extremely annoying glitch??

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  1. DaveM121 880.8K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2020-11-29T17:10:51+00:00

    Hi Kapprabard

    I am Dave, an Independent Advisor, I will help you with this . . .

    Open the settings App (gear icon on your Start Menu)

    Go to System - Sound

    At the bottom of that page, click 'App Volumes and Device Preferences'

    Is Steam in the list of apps on that page, and is the volume set to 50?

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  2. DaveM121 880.8K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2020-11-29T17:44:29+00:00

    Hi Kapprabard

    Then you have checked all settings in Windows 10 that could be causing this and you have already re-installed your Audio drivers, this must be a problem caused by Steam, since it is only happening with Steam, regardless of what Steam Support says, have you tried re-installing the Steam Application on your PC?

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-11-29T17:37:34+00:00

    the enhancements were disabled by default. I looked at all my output devices and they all had it off.

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  4. DaveM121 880.8K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2020-11-29T17:30:34+00:00

    Hi Kapprabard

    Right click the sound icon on your Taskbar, choose Open Volume Mixer

    Click the Speakers icon on the resulting window

    If there is any Enhancements tab or Spatial Sounds tab, disable any enhancements and restart your PC . . .

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-11-29T17:18:13+00:00

    It is set to 0. I tried that just recently and it still doesn't do anything.

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