{"id":72,"date":"2015-02-25T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carlosthomas.net\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2025-11-17T15:56:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:56:22","slug":"general-audio-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carlosthomas.net\/blog\/2015\/02\/general-audio-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"General Audio Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Recently we’ve found that persons have had some issues with audio – particularly in games. Turns out that at times either accidentally – or intentionally by someone playing a prank – the volume for a particular item may be disabled or turned down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So let’s take a look at what your typical volume controls look like. From the desktop section of your PC (Windows 7 and below) you should see your speaker icon in the bottom corner.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Volume\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’re using Windows 8\/8.1 then you can access this by first going to DESKTOP after your device has booted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next you want to either click on the icon then click on MIXER.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Volume\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or – right click then go to OPEN VOLUME MIXER.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Volume\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once this is up your default view should look like the one in the pic below.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Volume\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However – any application you launch may appear in the mixer. That happened even with the screenshot app that I was using – PicPic<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Volume\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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I had then launched an old game called ONI<\/a> that the younger gamers wouldn’t know about. Even with this old game a separate volume control came up for it. So next I launched L4D2<\/a> through STEAM<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Volume\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Here you can see that I’ve turned down the volume for L4D2<\/a>while the rest of the system sounds are working. The mixer even put an entry for STEAM<\/a> itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now if you ever find yourself in a situation where a game or app gives no sound – but the sounds work everywhere else and in everything else – or if you find that the sounds are lower in one app or player than another – check the mixer. You may have to run the game then ALT+TAB away from it to check the mixer, but after this inconvenience once you shouldn’t have to do it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hope this helps if you’ve had any sound issues. Let us know in the boxes below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently we’ve found that persons have had some issues with audio – particularly in games. Turns out that at times either accidentally – or intentionally by someone playing a prank – the volume for a particular item may be disabled or turned down. So let’s take a look at what your typical volume controls look … Continue reading General Audio Problems<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_eb_attr":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4XHmQ-1a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlosthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlosthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlosthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlosthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlosthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carlosthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"https:\/\/carlosthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlosthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlosthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlosthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}