Volume Mixer Changing by Itself

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Volume Mixer Changing by Itself

Anonymous

Aug 8, 2018, 10:55 PM

I have an issue where the volume mixer changes the volume of apps and games randomly, usually lowering the volume. This gets annoying because I have to raise the master volume for watching videos in Chrome, then forget that the master volume is high and get into a game an hear louder-than-preferred volumes. I also can barely hear incoming Discord calls sometimes and find out the volume mixer turned Discord's volume very low. Is there any way to fix this? Thanks in advance!

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Answer 1

Hey SMarioCh,

I've sort of experienced this issue before, then it went away, so I'll try my best here. Go to Sound in the Control Panel or right-click the Sound icon on the bottom right, then click Sounds, and go to the Playback tab in the new window.

You'll then have to go to your primary playback device, double-click it and go into the Advanced tab, and uncheck "Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device".

What's going on here seems to be noise suppression, I'm not sure what would be causing it, but hope this helps, let me know of the results.

Answer 2

Anonymous

Aug 9, 2018, 7:00 PM

I've tried that, it seemed to work but now it's back to being broken. I am going to try and reinstall the sound drivers and see how that goes.

Answer 3

Anonymous

Aug 9, 2018, 7:59 PM

SMarioCh.

Keep me posted, sorry this solution didn't do it. I'll keep looking into your issue.

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