Windows 10: One application making sound causes second application's volume to temporarily lower

I like to play iRacing, a realistic motorsport simulator. As you may imagine, the engine noise from the car I'm driving is constant and important to understand how it is behaving.While I play iRacing, I run a 3rd party application called Crew Chief. This application pulls data from iRacing and helps me with pitstop strategy and acts as a spotter, letting me know when rivals' cars are nearby, if there is an incident up ahead, and other useful things during the race. It informs me of these things by playing audio files that replicate being in radio contact with a human crew chief and spotter. It

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if I have multiple applications, one has lowered volume?


Hey all, I recently upgraded to Windows 10 but I've got this weird feature where sometimes if I have more than one application that is using sound open at once, the second application will have it's volume lowered and I can't find a way to restore the proper volume level without closing one of the applications.
For example, I was watching a video on YouTube, and had a game open at the same time, both were using sound, but the YouTube video was quieter, and I think a bit echoed slightly. As soon as I closed the game application, the YouTube video suddenly raised in volume back to the regular level.
I looked around the settings on my computer, but I couldn't find anything that would account for this, and it doesn't always happen, so I'm not sure what to do.

I'm using an Acer laptop, if that helps.

 

Windows sound volume is different for each application

I've been noticing that every time I click my mouse from one application to another, the master volume gets changed because each application has its own master volume. I tried looking online and sources have told me to go to Settings>System>Sound>App volume and device preferences, but those settings are all defaulted at 100. To give a little more context I would have a web browser open like Youtube and my media player open side by side. My master volume when using Youtube would be 30 and the second I click on my media player the master volume would be at a different level like 10. This makes it super inconsistent and sometimes hard to listen since I never know what volume another application would be at. If I change the master volume of that application, it would ONLY change the master volume for that application and remember it for next time when I use that application again. I am trying to make my master volume unified throughout all apps and web browsers. Anyone know any solutions?

 

Invididual application volume levels change on their own

While using my computer, I can go days at a time without having to deal with this issue, which is what makes it even more frustrating when it does happen, as I don't know the cause.

To begin, I'm on Windows 10, and while using my computer, I'll go to play music via Spotify, play a YouTube video in Chrome, or have a discussion with someone in Discord. Where everything was fine the last few times I'll have done these activities, every
so often, the volume levels seem to have dropped dramatically. I'll right-click my volume icon in the taskbar, click on "Open Sound Settings", and then click on the option for "App volume and device preferences". Under here, there is the option to have application
specific volume levels, and even though I'm constantly maxing them all out to 100%, somehow, they will have been lowered to like 10-20%. The frustrating part, is that it's not all of the applications. Just 1 or 2 out of the list, again, usually Chrome, Discord,
Spotify, for my iCUE software for my Corsair headset.

Steps I've taken to resolve this are making sure that each of these application are all up to date, making sure my device drivers are all up to date, going in to my "Sounds", going to the "Communications" tab, and making sure to check the "Do nothing" option
under the option for "When Windows detects communications activity:". None of this seems to help, and as I stated previously, I haven't been able to find any kind of commonality between when it happens.

I thought I had found an article relating the issue to Discord, but it was just referencing the "Do nothing" option I mentioned above. It did also make mention of Attentuation in Discord itself, but I have that feature disabled.

Is there something else I'm missing, or a way to disable application specific volume levels so that I can just have 1 master volume control? That' pretty much what I do anyways, as I max out all my application volumes.

Thanks