Increase Audio Volume in Gaming Mode

[Creeper of Doom]

The Audio is WAY too quiet for most games inside of Gaming Mode, especially when using Headphones / Earbuds, Compared to my main Linux PC where if i use the same things the audio is perfect

Dude even my old iPhone 6 has more stable Sound, and it has a Headphone jack so i can confirm it more

[Creeper of Doom]

For almost everything on my Steam Deck, I have to have the Volume on Max just for it to be acceptable, Everything is SO quiet on Steam Deck. On both the Internal Speaker and Headphones. Just Valve increasing the default Volume for everything would help tremendously

[Rhomagus]

What I have found is there is a glitch with audio settings in gaming mode. If you shutdown or restart your deck while volume is at a lower setting in gaming mode, the new max output will be the volume you set prior to restarting.

This can be changed by going into Desktop Mode and readjusting the volume of the default device. You'll often find, for some reason, the volume is set to some arbitrary amount. Likely the one you had it set to before.