How to get your sound working in Bigscreen Beta (Partial fix)

In this guide, I will show you how to get audio for Bigscreen Beta working on one application so you can watch a movie with friends.

INTRODUCTION

Since many of you have had sound problems in Bigscreen Beta and can not get it working, I found a way that works for a certain application and ONLY for that application. You wont be able to hear the desktop sounds or any other application sounds but the one application. So long story short it works only with one application. Why?

Well the way I see it, their game has a driver that you can install and its working Independently so it won't work for desktop sounds (unless you set it as default) but can work with certain applications like VLC media player or any other applications for watching movies that I didn't test yet.

DOWNLOADING

For us to proceed you need to download certain things first.

1. download the driver from the game. For that you need to open your INGAME menu, go to settings/audio and on the right you have the option to install a driver (shown in the picture below - picture is a little different because I already installed it but where it says uninstall you will have the option to install it):


2. you need the VLC media player downloaded and installed (link below). I have no idea if there is a second media player that works with this technique but be my guest and try it out. I've heard one of the good ones is also MPC-HC but I never tested this techinque with it. Download that on this site:

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

SETTING UP THE DRIVER

Now that your driver is installed, restart the computer just to be sure and when you turn it back on you will go to the bottom right of your desktop and find the sound icon:


Right click on it, open sounds...



... and go to the first tab called playback. After that make sure your driver that you downloaded from the game is enabled but not set to default. The driver that was installed is called: Bigscreen Audio Stream 1.2. Now because the driver was freshly installed its probably set as default by windows 10. You need to set up your current device that you're using to default which is for example your headphones or your speakers but never the driver as it says in the game which means you have to right click on your current SOUND OUTPUT DEVICE, set it up as default and continue. Look for the green "check mark" which appears on the default devices. Long story short, set your current output audio device that you're using to default. Look at the picture below for steps:


That's how it has to look like in the end:

SETTING UP THE VLC MEDIA PLAYER

Now that you have set up the drivers you need to open the VLC media player, click on audio on the top and hover over audio device and set it to the driver that was freshly installed from the game called Bigscreen audio stream 1.2. This means that the device will now "transport" the sound from VLC media player directly to the games driver.

I know what your wondering, maybe that you wont hear the sound now but no you are wrong, you should be able to hear the sound when you're in game. It works for me this way, I hear the sound from the movie as does my friend from the freshly installed driver Audio stream 1.2. I have no idea why this works but it looks like the games audio driver was designed that way I guess, that's my only explanation.

ENJOY THE MOVIE

And now since you set it up all like this in the guide you and your friend should be able to hear the sound in the game. That is all. If you have any questions or problems about how to make it work contact me in the comments below and I will help you set it up. Please note: Virtual Desktop users are not currently able to get it working as a host. The devs have been contacted and hopefully can sort this out soon.

[Ban Hannah]

Forget about partial fixes, here is a total and eternal fix :
https://youtu.be/1PPeTHc17QM
Have fun !

[jfd]

No problem. glad that it helped.

[Deathy]

I've spent hours trying to work out how to get this to work. Thank you so much for the guide!!!