Lowered audio in streams since last update.
I'm not too sure what happened between the last update and now, but literally from 1 day to the next I went to stream a game to my partner as we'd been doing that for a few days and we both wanted to see the ending. However suddenly the audio on their side of the stream was so quiet he could pretty much not hear it without me turning it louder on my end. Problem is I can't, we discovered awhile ago that I could lower the game sound in my volume mixer and it wouldn't affect the stream, so I could leave the game loud and lower it in the mixer to a comfortable level for myself. Over the last week or so, either the last update or previous one, I can no longer do that, the volume in the mixer is now tied to discord aswell. Not really sure what to do about this, none of our audio settings have changed, it was just the update that messed it up.
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Exactly the same issue that I have. One day I could stream my games perfectly without issue and my friends received clear audio. It was so convenient that I could stream with the games volume 100% and my volume mixer 20%. Then the next day, the update just made it really inconvenient to stream quality gameplay and I think discord should either revert to before the update or provide more control on your stream.
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Having the same problem as well, still. Any solutions yet?
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Having the exact same problem. I've been able to decipher that sound is now tied to your systems audio. I keep many of my games at a very low volume via the audio mixer. Resetting all of those, and bringing all of the games audio to max blows out my eardrums, but hey at least people can hear me. Not sure what a practical fix for this is, or what even broke to begin with. Hoping for a solution.
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Found the solution. You need to lower the max volume on the volume mixer (probably around 25%) have the game/whatever you want to stream at a good, easy and comfortable level and make sure to rise the discord volume to like nearly 100% to hear your buddies. bu lowering the max volume it tricks discord into thinking its at 100% but really its not. You're welcome im big brain
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Right click the speaker in your tool tray, then click open volume mixer. Make sure the slider for the Discord icon is at the same level as your headphones. If the voice audio you're receiving in your Discord call is too loud or quiet in your headphones, go into discord, click the cog at the bottom left, and adjust the slider on the output until it's where you want it.
Since you raised the level of the overall discord app in the tool tray to the same level as your headphones, adjusting the slider in discord itself should directly effect the volume level that gets sent to stream. To put it simply, the tool tray slider is the volume that gets sent to stream, the output slider in Discord itself is only for your ears. If you want to troubleshoot it, have someone talk in discord and listen to your steam on a tab in an internet browser, should only take a minute or two to get it right where you want it.
If this answer helped you, I politely ask that you pop in to my stream (@ is Rustymaan) one night and say hi and mention this forum response :)0 -
Had the same issue as well. Figured out fix for me at least. Hopefully it works for you.
1. Right click on the sound icon on the lower right of your screen by your clock.
2. Click on open sound settings.
3. Scroll all the way down and click on "App Volume and Device Preferences"
4. Make sure Discord is turned all the way up.
For me it showed two discord sliders. I turned both all the way up. Hope this helps!
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Mine is doing the same for discord mobile. I have all my sliders up and when I switched to browser it acted fine.
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I've been having this issue for a while and it makes the gaming experience not the same as it should be.. It sucks cause I and my best friend game together every day by her streaming and me watching, but with the sound so insanely soft I can't hear it, it's not the same.
I've been googling for a few hours and tried everything I found, both on my and her side, but nothing fixes it... If anyone else has an idea or something that worked for them I'd really like to know!
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Hi there, i don't know if this is relevant to you in any way but take a look at parsec. It is a tool which is designed to do exactly what you are trying to do. Your friend could stream the game to you without any quality loss up to 1080p for free.
you can also participate in her game by taking control or even jump into the game with your controller for games like gang beasts or ultime chicken horse.
i hope this helps for you until this issue is resolved on discords side
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I found the solution: all you have to do is go to voice and video settings and find the slide bar that is titled ATTENUATION and slide it to about 3/4 of the bar. if you set it to 100 it will be very laggy for both you and the participants of the call. hope this was helpful! :3
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Nothing mentioned in this thread seems to work for me. Were there any official acknoledgements or solutions to this problem?
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I had the same issue and I was able to fix it going to SETTINGS > APP SETTINGS \ VOICE & VIDEO and disabling "ECHO CANCELLATION"
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I solved the problem by going in the Headset properties and reseting in Advanced Settings
Hope it works for you all !
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I have tried everything suggested on this page and I have not found a fix. I may have messed with a random setting at one point but nothing I have changed today has worked so far. Worst is when random discord updates ninja changes a random troublesome setting on its own without notification.
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Whats for sure is its not comming from discord itself because i have uninstalled and downloaded discord in full again and i still have these problems
Are moderators/ Devs looking at this thread? is there a fix?
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I’ve also done everything suggested here and there’s still been no change? Has anyone got ANYTHING? After 2 years of the same problem? 😞
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So after having tried a lot of things, I found a way to solve the problem on my PC, I think it should work for everyone but who knows
Go in your sound panel, and put the two Discord Sliders up to 100%, then adjust your sound level in the discord app
If the sound of the stream is still low, there is a way to tweak things to make it work
Lower the global volume of the pc, but turn the app you'e streaming up
Discord defines the level of the stream sound in a mix between the Discord (in the sound panel, not in discord) level and the app level, put them both up to boost your sound, and adjust your global PC sound and your in-app discord level to your preference
Hope it helps, don't hesitate to ask if you don't understand
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I’ve done that it’s it’s still very quiet.
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