Imagine me, sitting there at my computer watching a YouTube video. While I am sitting there, a friend of me messages me. Steam, trying to be the considerate person, lowers the volume of my video. I reach over to the volume slider, and move it back up. Seconds later though, as my friend messages me, Steam pulls the slider back down to a lower level. I tried looking around in the settings, but there was nothing about prevent it from altering my audio. Is there a way, and if so, how?
Steam – How to prevent the Steam from messing with the outside audio
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Best Answer
This is a windows feature which can cause issues with a number of gaming applications e.g. Steam and Teamspeak. Fortunately there's an easy way to turn it off:
Windows automatically partially mutes other applications when it detects what it thinks of as a phone call.