If you bring up the overlay (holding Escape on a keyboard, or the Select/View button on a controller) and check the volume there, it isn't showing as muted or anything similar?

If you have a laptop (or, really, any computer other than the one you're streaming from) are you able to install the Steam Link desktop app there and check if things work?

Originally posted by Packetdancer:

If you bring up the overlay (holding Escape on a keyboard, or the Select/View button on a controller) and check the volume there, it isn't showing as muted or anything similar?

If you have a laptop (or, really, any computer other than the one you're streaming from) are you able to install the Steam Link desktop app there and check if things work?

I already did that and its not muted, and I dont have anything else right now to check

Originally posted by Meirem:

I already did that and its not muted, and I dont have anything else right now to check

Drat. I was hoping to see whether your audio issues were specific to the *Android* app, or if they turned up in macOS/Windows/Linux/whatever.

Can you grab the logs\streaming_log.txt from your Steam install directory on the machine you're streaming from, and then stick it on Pastebin or somewhere? That should at least contain information on what it's trying to do for the audio streaming.

Originally posted by Packetdancer:

Originally posted by Meirem:

I already did that and its not muted, and I dont have anything else right now to check

Drat. I was hoping to see whether your audio issues were specific to the *Android* app, or if they turned up in macOS/Windows/Linux/whatever.

Can you grab the logs\streaming_log.txt from your Steam install directory on the machine you're streaming from, and then stick it on Pastebin or somewhere? That should at least contain information on what it's trying to do for the audio streaming.

Its too big for pastebin so here's the file in google drive https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kBy9vrVCkKPEUhDhLAFNDY1JPWi9uHTv/view?usp=sharing

Originally posted by Meirem:

Its too big for pastebin so here's the file in google drive https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kBy9vrVCkKPEUhDhLAFNDY1JPWi9uHTv/view?usp=sharing

Well, the good news is the log says what's happening! And it isn't the Android client breaking!


The bad news, unfortunately, is that it's worse than the Android client breaking; for some reason, your computer is unable to initialize the audio capture, so there's no audio being *sent* to the streaming client... :|

Originally posted by Packetdancer:

Originally posted by Meirem:

Its too big for pastebin so here's the file in google drive https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kBy9vrVCkKPEUhDhLAFNDY1JPWi9uHTv/view?usp=sharing

Well, the good news is the log says what's happening! And it isn't the Android client breaking!

[2026-02-14 20:54:31][322.800602] Initializing audio with 2 channels and 48000 samples/sec [2026-02-14 20:54:31][322.813730] Audio recording init failed, couldn't initialize the audio client loopback: 0x80070057 [2026-02-14 20:54:31][322.813870] Failed to init system audio recording: 1

The bad news, unfortunately, is that it's worse than the Android client breaking; for some reason, your computer is unable to initialize the audio capture, so there's no audio being *sent* to the streaming client... :|

Thanks for the info ! Now I have to see if there's any way to fix it
Any suggestions ?

Originally posted by Meirem:

Thanks for the info ! Now I have to see if there's any way to fix it
Any suggestions ?

I'm gonna be honest, I don't know the host side of the code terribly well. Not well enough to reel off advice on a weekend, at any rate.

THAT SAID, 0x80070057 is a fairly standard Windows error code usually meaning "incorrect parameter" -- it has a tendency to crop up in various bits of Windows code when there's a permissions error or driver corruption of some sort.

You've already tried reinstalling Steam's audio drivers and a bunch of the other first-steps I'd go with, so all I can think of off the top of my head is the "permissions error" part of that -- I don't *actually* expect that this will work, but if you quit Steam and then manually run it as an administrator and then try streaming from it, does the audio work?

Originally posted by Packetdancer:

Originally posted by Meirem:

Thanks for the info ! Now I have to see if there's any way to fix it
Any suggestions ?

I'm gonna be honest, I don't know the host side of the code terribly well. Not well enough to reel off advice on a weekend, at any rate.

THAT SAID, 0x80070057 is a fairly standard Windows error code usually meaning "incorrect parameter" -- it has a tendency to crop up in various bits of Windows code when there's a permissions error or driver corruption of some sort.

You've already tried reinstalling Steam's audio drivers and a bunch of the other first-steps I'd go with, so all I can think of off the top of my head is the "permissions error" part of that -- I don't *actually* expect that this will work, but if you quit Steam and then manually run it as an administrator and then try streaming from it, does the audio work?

No it doesn't

Originally posted by Meirem:

No it doesn't

Alas. It was a long shot and, as I said, I didn't really expect it to work... but it would've been *nice* if it had. :P

Originally posted by Packetdancer:

Originally posted by Meirem:

No it doesn't

Alas. It was a long shot and, as I said, I didn't really expect it to work... but it would've been *nice* if it had. :P

too good to be true thanks for the help though