Audio Mute/No Audio/No Sound

[Chachee]

I have the Steam Link hooked up to my Tv and it connects to my computer just fine.

At start up it's running ok, with audio coming out of the TV. B

ut as soon as I load a game I hear the audio on my TV, then it goes quiet, then on my computer, then the speakers on my computer get muted. I've attempted to change the playback option on my computer as some have suggested, but the only thing I've got plugged in is normal speakers and a Yeti microphone. The speakers are muted, and I can't do anything to the mic.

Running Windows 7, nothing super fancy.

Thank you for reading/time.

[Super Pro Player]

Any luck?
Same problem here. Got my Steam Link today... disappointed :(

[Seanspeed99]

Same problem. Using a Xonar DGX sound card on Windows 10.

[Chachee]

Not yet. I just use onboard audio and since I'm in the same room just walk over and unmute my desktop.

It's super annoying.

[Super Pro Player]

@Seanspeed99 I fixed it by uninstalling the Xonar driver and installing Xonar Unified driver http://maxedtech.com/asus-xonar-unified-drivers/

[Seanspeed99]

Originally posted by Super Pro Player:

@Seanspeed99 I fixed it by uninstalling the Xonar driver and installing Xonar Unified driver http://maxedtech.com/asus-xonar-unified-drivers/

Ha, I fixed it by doing the exact opposite.

When I first upgraded to Win10, my sound card didn't work so I used that driver you've installed there. But now I just upgraded to the official driver from the Asus site and it works fine now.

I dont think there's really any difference in the drivers, what I suspect is just that we needed to reinstall the audio driver in general.

But thanks anyways. :)

[Chachee]

Huh, I'm still running Win7. Perhaps I'll see what my audio driver is and/or update for the board. Thanks gents.

[Pr1nc3]

I have a similar problem. My PC runs Windows 10. The audio comes only out of the PC speakers and I can not change it on my PC.

[callmemusashi]

I realize I'm late to the party here, but I only recently started having this issue (audio used to work perfectly when I first got Steam Link, immediately upon release).

Sometime in the last month or so, my monitors suddenly showed up under audio devices (which is stupid as they do not have speakers: Samsung U28E590 and 2 flanking U24E590's). Whether this was a Windows update or something to do with NVidia's High Definition Audio drivers, I do not know...

Anyway, my primary display got checked as my default audio device in Windows. So, wanting to actually hear sound on my compy, I switched it back to my Realtek High Definition Audio device (onboard audio on my Asus Maximus VI). Cool. Sound plays again, just like old times.

But when I went to try steam link with my sound configured in this way, the sound came out of my computer speakers instead of the Steam Link (or, more specifically, my tv).

Long story short, when I set the monitor (which, again: does NOT have speakers) to the default audio device, and THEN try connecting to stream from my computer via steam link, the sound functions as is should.

I'm no computer mastermind here, but my money is on the NVidia driver being crucial to the whole Steam Link operation of transferring sound (which is weird because it used to work with my onboard sound driver before my monitors recently became ersatz audio devices...)

If you have an NVidia card, I recommend you try setting whatever audio device is listed as the "NVidia High Definition Audio" device as your default and see whether this solves the issue of sound working on Steam Link.

Hope this helps someone :)