No sound in 'play together'

[BadDudesaBomBa]

Hi

My pal has no sound when we try to play together. Is anyone else having problems like this? Is there a fix?

Thanks

Edit: It has been several months now and the issue seems to have solved itself somehow along the way. Or maybe a Steam update fixed it.

[RED.Misfit]

Just in case, you never know, be sure that your mate didn't mute or put the streaming volume on low somehow.
It happens to me lately, i've been searching everywhere why she had lost my streaming sound on remote play together... then i remotely controled her PC... well when guest join the game, they can open a streaming popup menu by holding escape key (or the left button on the central part of a gamepad, don't know what it is called)

Then in the popup menu there is a speaker icon where the guest can set the volume for the remote play streaming. Somehow she managed, at some point, to access that menu and mute the sound without even noticing it. xD

[Eggshell97]

I'm putting my reply here for anyone who is unfortunate enough to end up on a 2 hour hunt for the issue. If nothing else seems to work, then check the Windows Volume Mixer. Right click the volume icon on the task bar to find it (Windows 10), and AFTER the streamed game is open, you can scroll all the way to the side and turn the volume on. THE SLIDER WILL ONLY APPEAR WHILE REMOTE PLAY IS RUNNING. The only reason I didn't think of it sooner was because the volume mixer doesn't appear in the normal sound settings.

[Night]

Yeah it's really weird cause nothing we tried from this thread fixes it. What's really weird is it worked last week and only stopped working on Friday, now my friend cannot hear dragon ball fighterz despite having done everything mentioned like me going to the remote play settings, changing the playback to 16bit etc etc

[[PAL] Mafia]

if u still have the issue try this

go to steam settinges > interface > client beta participation (no bata choosen)

that's the only way work for me after trying all what i saw in this post

[lukis]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από selection_7:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από _I_:

steam changed the capture method to work that way

with the streaming driver enabled as default, windows would only send sound to the client

now, just set the default speakers to what you use (disable or uninstall steam streaming speakers)
and just make sure to tick the play sound on host box
steam -> settings -> remote play

Since I had this problem, but I found it annoying that none of these replies give the full, un-abridged solution that worked for me...
In Steam **on the Host computer**, choose Steam-->settings-->remote play-->Host options: Advanced Host Opions-->Play audio on host (checkbox this).
This caused my client PC, i.e., the one streaming from the host, to finally start playing audio on the client. It makes no sense to me, because the box I checked is to "Play audio on host", but I don't want to play audio on host, I want to play audio on client. Nevertheless, that's what worked.

I also changed my Win11 PC audio from 24bit to 16bit, (taskbar audio icon right click\sound settings\advanced\more sound settings-->in the Sound popup window, select your output (mine was called 'Line Out 1/2', but for many people it will be something like 'Speakers' or 'Headphones') \Properties\Advanced\Default Format\'2 channel, 16 bit, 44100 Hz (CD Quality)'. But that didn't work by itself—maybe it was necessary in addition, though.

DUUUUUDE, I tried it and at first it didn't work, at the second time it worked, thanks.
EDIT: I TAKE IT BACK, IT STOP WORKING

[Riftwind]

Having this issue right now. Tried all these settings. Invited someone else to determine it;'s on my end (I'm a client, to the host) I cannot figure out why I'm not getting game sound. I do hear steams sounds when messing with the settings however.

[-FAP- Jägerbomber]

I believe it. Incorrect / reversed checkbox settings have been a problem in Steam before, like Friends List / Chat settings.

[Riftwind]

Yeah I even see 'Game [Streaming]' in my windows volume mixer, but it's not getting any sound.

[Deathfromace]

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Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από PannaPanasa:

Try changing sound playback properties' default format from 24bit to 16bit. Good luck!

Thanks dude, this was driving me crazy and worked!!

Bumping as this worked for me too

This was after turning on the host sound in the remote play settings....why is this off by default!

[-FAP- Jägerbomber]

Probably because most use streaming by themselves.

[76561199533049016]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από BadDudesaBomBa:

Hi

My pal has no sound when we try to play together. Is anyone else having problems like this? Is there a fix?

Thanks

Edit: It has been several months now and the issue seems to have solved itself somehow along the way. Or maybe a Steam update fixed it.

[Фембой Данечки]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από PannaPanasa:

Try changing sound playback properties' default format from 24bit to 16bit. Good luck!

Thank you!! That's really work

[Noot]

I'm Having this issue now. I've attempted every single fix but my friends cannot hear my audio when I stream.

I attempted on another computer, and when they invite me it works fine and I can hear. Funny thing is that theyre running 32 bit audio, have "play audio on host" disabled and don't even have the steam streaming speakers/microphone at all, just regular audio input.

Any ideas?

[_I_]

check windows mixer volumes on host, make sure steam client/bootstrapper is maxed

[Nareth Erakian]

We've got the same issue... suddenly now.
It worked perfectly fine the last like 10 times on Binding of Isaac, just for it to suddenly stop working.
No audio, tried multiple different fixes we could find online, but nothing worked so far...

The most annoying things are systems that stop working despite not having changed a single thing...