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Please help me identify this weird steam sound (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by raldone01 to c/steam

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I have not been able to correlate it to any event in steam. I watched the volume mixer to find out that it was steam. I tried to turn off all notifications but obviously I have missed something. There is no visual cue just this sound in the background.

I appreciate any hints.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Love that Registered Hypercam watermark

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Searching "random steam noise in background" gives a result saying check to see if steam > settings > music is playing anything. Big picture mode also has sound settings but you need to be in big picture mode to access them.

[–] raldone01 1 points 6 months ago

It's not the music. It might be the big picture mode. I think I changed some settings a while ago thinking it was only active while in big picture mode. Currently I can't open it because it asks me to sign in?!? I will try to reinstall the steam client.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Did a download fail/you lose internet while in Big Picture mode?

[–] raldone01 1 points 6 months ago

I don't think so. I can only open it when I set steam to open in big picture and exit it completely. But I could not find any turned on sound settings there either. I have switched to the beta client maybe that helps? If nothing works I will just mute steam in the volume mixer.