Can't get sound to work

[hornetstinger]

PG Riptide 650
ATI 480

I've tried HDMI from videocard to AVR, and HDMI on the backplate to the AVR and neither works

I have the sound devices in device manager but changing output in taskbar I only see the monitor as a audio option. I've installed all drivers, Realtek, GPU etc

Ok selecting "samsung monitor" as sound option works...wtf, it should show yamaha AVR or something like that?

It's not passing DD/DTS/HD streams though. I've installed MPC and selected bitstream options

Second display is active- it's seeing the HDMI out as a secondary monitor but I don't want that- I just want audio out. So the mouse cursor is moving to the right of the screen past into the secondary

I have a PCI-E soundcard with optical out so I could fix this issue, but I thought I'd be able to use HDMI audio only!

 

[hornetstinger]

Think I got it to work, but boy HDMi is a complete mess, shut the PC off and had to change sound output again, can't duplicate screens because the second output is 1080P so games don't allow 1440p, and with extend, everytime I move mouse over to the right it goes off to the second screen.

What a total load of BS.

If I just had digital out from motherboard ie optical this would solve it. I'll have to refit my old soundcard that has optical out!

 

[arknor]

I thought most motherboards had optical out?

toslink/spdid


Cheap soundcard works though, the optical on them is just passthrough and you don't need to worry about EMI from any stronk GPU's since it's digital

so any cheap crap works.

just remember. PCIE slot length doesn't matter, you can plug an old PCIE SB Z into a long slot fine.

 

[hornetstinger]

I thought most motherboards had optical out?

toslink/spdid


Cheap soundcard works though, the optical on them is just passthrough and you don't need to worry about EMI from any stronk GPU's since it's digital

so any cheap crap works.

just remember. PCIE slot length doesn't matter, you can plug an old PCIE SB Z into a long slot fine.

They're removing SPDIF on many motherboards, as HDMI is supposed to be "replacing it"

 

[arknor]

They're removing SPDIF on many motherboards, as HDMI is supposed to be "replacing it"

Never used it personally, But never used realtek for more than a few seconds either.

Aren't most soundbars HMDI Arc or eArc now?

which I guess forces people to buy a HDMI splitter if they don't have a monitor that supports it as passthrough

AFAIK some monitors have optical out but they don't support dolby atmos

 

[hornetstinger]

Never used it personally, But never used realtek for more than a few seconds either.

Aren't most soundbars HMDI Arc or eArc now?

which I guess forces people to buy a HDMI splitter if they don't have a monitor that supports it as passthrough

AFAIK some monitors have optical out but they don't support dolby atmos

Onboard is fine, if using digital out
Not a soundbar, it's a Yamaha AVR. Don't think it has ARC/E-ARC anyway, and even if it did the monitor doesn't have have ARC/E-ARC out, no optical either.

I hope Windows 11 works with this

UNi Xonar Drivers official page

UNi Xonar drivers main page (information, release notes, driver downloads).

maxedtech.com

 

[hornetstinger]

Just fitted the asus card back in, works and don't have issues with secondary monitor, mouse disappearing etc.

Stupid I need to use a 10 year old soundcard on a new board because HDMI only audio doesn't function as it should, and that motherboard makers are removing spdif.

Lose DTS-HD, Atmos, and Dolby HD