No sound in Steam (new gaming laptop with GPU)

[deano_ferrari]

Does this manifest for 32-bit Steam games only? 64-bit games as well? Speculating here, but based on various discussions I’ve read I wonder if this is an SDL2 issue at play?
Does the SDL_AUDIODRIVER environment needs to be set explicitly perhaps? Check as user with…

echo $SDL_AUDIODRIVER

It can be set as per the following reference:

SDL2/FAQUsingSDL

Sharing similar discussions that turned up from a quick search:

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For LMMS users. LMMS was not happy, instead of starting as usual, it showed me the sound settings screen of LMMS. (after I changed that file) So it “noticed” I had made a change. No real problem because in LMMS its easy to change under settings, if you want to use sdl, pulse audio or alsa. SDL did not work, but setting it to pulse audio did. Setting it to alsa will probably work too.