Realy quiet

[kbmodigity]

Just got my steam link today and so far its pretty cool. Issue I'm having though is the audio through my TV is so quiet. With normal TV I have the volume set to 20/100 and can hear everything fine. With the steam link I have to crank my TV up to like 55/100 to get half way normal audio.

I looked over the settings but cant realy seem to find a spot to incease either the overall input or output of the link.

Any suggestions?

[Extreemhost]

unplug your audio in PC

[kbmodigity]

Originally posted by Extreemhost:

unplug your audio in PC

Seems kind of a pain to have to unplug my comps audio every time I use SL and then have to plug back in after, I hope theres a better way around that if this is even a solution.

[toidi]

check your link audio settings to see if it set to 5.1 (auto) and if so change it 50 stereo to see if it makes a difference.

Also check 'Playback Devices' on your pc (right click the wee audio icon on the windows taskbar and access from there). Whilst in there, Make sure the default playback device is set to your soundcard/usb headphones. Highlight your default device and 'Configure' to check that it is using stereo output and not 5.1/7.1 . Done that? connect to pc from the link, exit big picture mode (power button on top right of screen). Use your controller/mouse to right click the wee audio icon again and 'open volume mixer'. Make sure that all the playback devices listed have high volume output on their sliders.

Side note: If you have third party sound manager on your pc, like an Asus/realtek audio manager, make sure that it doesn't automatically revert any of the output settings you have set back to 5.1 etc.

Give that a go and let us know how you got on, cheers Danny.

[kbmodigity]

Originally posted by toidi:

check your link audio settings to see if it set to 5.1 (auto) and if so change it 50 stereo to see if it makes a difference.

Also check 'Playback Devices' on your pc (right click the wee audio icon on the windows taskbar and access from there). Whilst in there, Make sure the default playback device is set to your soundcard/usb headphones. Highlight your default device and 'Configure' to check that it is using stereo output and not 5.1/7.1 . Done that? connect to pc from the link, exit big picture mode (power button on top right of screen). Use your controller/mouse to right click the wee audio icon again and 'open volume mixer'. Make sure that all the playback devices listed have high volume output on their sliders.

Side note: If you have third party sound manager on your pc, like an Asus/realtek audio manager, make sure that it doesn't automatically revert any of the output settings you have set back to 5.1 etc.

Give that a go and let us know how you got on, cheers Danny.

Ive looked at the settings again and i must be blind or stupid, but I cant find anywhere to change that in the steam link. Can you PLEASE tell me how to get to that so I can try it?

[toidi]

Fire up the steam link, on the left under 'start playing' click 'settings' top one should be audio, click that.

3 options now, click the box next to 'sound configuration' make sure it is set to 'Stereo'
Middle option only turns off the background wailing noise from the link menus, I disable that as par for the course.
Third one is 'External Speaker Volume/output' I set that to 80.

That's about it really. Let us know how you get on, cheers Danny..

[Halliconsun]

my 5 cent to this old discussion since I encountered the issue myself which never happened before and everything always worked perfectly:

checked my Audio Mixer (Sound is muted on PC) and within the Audio Mixer I realized that at some point I must have lowered the Steam Sound Output group... solved ^^

[what]

When i went to the mixer, I had to use the dropdown to choose audio and choose steam streaming. That was the one that was set low. The regular audio was fine.

[kbmodigity]

WHy are you necroing this?

[Bandileros]

У меня возникла та же проблема. Устройства все выставлены на стерео и громкость на 100%, микшер громкости тоже на 100%, а через steam link транслируется тихий звук. Очень тихий.
Всё проверил, всё прошерстил, все настройки, чуть ли не до обновления драйверов добрался - звук всё равно настолько тихий, что едва слышно.

[_I_]

the link does have its own volume controls
while streaming, hold home/ps/xbox button, or esc on keyboard, then turn up its volumes