Windows 10: Sounds from other applications are muted for the first few seconds when i'm playing a game.

Hello,Recently I've experienced an issue where the sound from applications takes a while to 'activate' when I'm playing a game. For example when I press my toggle mute button for discord which is running in the background, I dont hear the sound notification of me muting myself for the first few seconds. The same happens with my browser when I'm trying to play a video. The first 1-2 seconds of the video is muted and then the sound kicks in.I'm on a windows 11 pro desktop computer.Any possible solutions to this?Thanks in advance,Luuk

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Sound muted if changes volume while playing

Hi everyone, I have a rather odd problem.

My sounds seem to works fine, however if I change volume while sound is playing, the sound is muted. It happens every time doing so.

My laptop is running windows 10 and sound is played through computer's internal speakers.

Here are what I tried and found.

1. Use built-in player in windows 10 to play a video, volume is set to 30 at the beginning. Pause the video and change volume to 80, then resume playing. Everything works fine.
   
2. Again, play a video with volume set to 30 at first, this time increase volume while video is still playing, sound is muted as soon as I click the volume bar.
   
3. After step 2, sound is still muted even I decrease volume back to 30.
   
4. Volume bar is always available during the test, and there is no error notification.
   
5. I thought it was a driver issue so I re-installed sound card driver with latest official one.
   

I can’t try a system restore since it is the laptop for work.

 

Mute sound of individual app that has no sound playing

There are various ways to mute or alter the volume of an application that makes sound, because once it does, it will show up in the Windows Volume Mixer.

But I'm at work right now and would like to mute my browser before I start playing audio (read: a game) in it.

My computer plays a radio continuously through the speakers, and if I mute my system audio just to hide sounds from this browser, the radio also stops which will tell others that I might play games.

Is there a way to make sure any program but in this specific case, Chrome Browser to never play any audio while other apps on the pc can?

 

No sound while playing audio and video files.

Hi,

I appreciate if you could answer to a few questions to narrow down to the issue.

• Which is the application that you are using to play the files?
• Did you try the same on a different player?
• Did you perform any troubleshooting steps?

As an initial troubleshooting step, I suggest you to check if the volume is set low or in mute state in Volume Mixer.

• Right click on sound icon.
• Open Volume Mixer check for the application that you are playing the files with and increase the volume and check.

If the issue still persists, I would suggest you to run “Playing audio” troubleshooter to diagnose and fix the issue.

Follow these Steps to run Playing Audio Troubleshooter in Windows 10.

1. Type troubleshooting in the search bar.

2. Select Troubleshooting.

3. Select View all on the top left corner.

4. Click on Playing audio.

Also refer: Fix sound or audio problems in Windows - Microsoft Support

Hope the information helps in resolving the issue related to the sound issue. Let us know if you need further assistance. We will be happy to help.

Thank you.