I need help setting up sound on my PC (GTX580)

douglatins · Apr 13, 2011

So i want to use my cards HDMI sound out to listen to youtube vids etc, so i will play on my monitors crappy speakers, but when gaming i want to have my xonax Dx outputting, can i configure so that both sounds work? I will only mute my mon when needed?

dark2099 · Apr 13, 2011

I'm no expert, but I don't believe that Windows is able to use two sound cards for output at once. You would have to swap between them when you switch between gaming and such.

streetfighter 2 · Apr 13, 2011

douglatins said:
So i want to use my cards HDMI sound out to listen to youtube vids etc, so i will play on my monitors crappy speakers, but when gaming i want to have my xonax Dx outputting, can i configure so that both sounds work? I will only mute my mon when needed?

I'm assuming you're using onboard sound for the monitor speakers, and you're using your graphics card's built-in decoder and HDMI output for your xonax system. The problem is that you'll want to configure your onboard card (connected to monitor) as your default directsound device, and you'll want to configure your games to use the GTX580 HDMI out. The problem is most games don't allow you to pick an adapter that isn't the default directsound device.

Therefore the only rational solution is to switch the default directsound device to the GTX580 HDMI out whenever you launch a game, and then change it back to onboard whenever you quit the game.

dark2099 said:
I'm no expert, but I don't believe that Windows is able to use two sound cards for output at once.

Actually it is. I do it all the time with my MAME arcade machine (which doubles as a jukebox for my living room entertainment system). The problem is that you need to use two programs at once (each configured to use a different adapter), which requires you to trick the programs into using different adapters or manually change it in the program settings.

douglatins · Apr 13, 2011

blobster21 said:
bah, you should buy one of those cheap mini jack splitter and plug it on your soundcard's speakers output. You will be able to have sound on 2 sets of speakers just as you want.

Those things usually makes the sound really bad

Can i create a shortcut to change quickly then?

TRIPTEX_CAN · Apr 13, 2011

http://www.indievolume.com/

http://software.muzychenko.net/eng/vac.htm

I believe these are two options. From what I can tell firefox does not have audio device section.

digibucc · Apr 13, 2011

per application is easy - just click the speaker and go into the mixer, change each thing individually.

however per speaker is more difficult. very few games or programs allow you to choose where their sound gets outputted. they also do not allow sound to keep playing as you switch the default device.

splitter cables don't really do what you want - because then ALL sounds are playing on ALL speakers.

I do not know of a software solution that forces certain applications to use certain devices, and saves profiles so it works automatically. that VAC from what i can tell looks ... like something

douglatins · Apr 13, 2011

found a nice autohotkey code

Code:

^+'::
Run, mmsys.cpl
WinWait,Sound
ControlSend,SysListView321,{Down}
ControlGet, isEnabled, Enabled,,&Set Default
if(!isEnabled)
{
   ControlSend,SysListView321,{Down 2}
}
ControlClick,&Set Default
ControlClick,OK
WinWaitClose
SoundPlay, *-1
return

works great, exaclty what i needed, press buttons, headphone, again, monitor, again headphones

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