Sound through hdmi on GTX 295

chuck990 · 11 Sep 2009 at 12:37

setting this up for a friend and having trouble, on my machine (using a 4850) it was as simple as plug and play but it seems not here, the sound menus in both windows and Realtek HD audio manager do not register the HDMI as an output, anyone know where i can find the setting to enable it??

thanks in advance

(ps mods, dunno where to put this so will this do?)

chuck990 · 11 Sep 2009 at 12:56

also have another option, plugged into the speakers via optical cable dont know how to set that up either however....

mogwai · 11 Sep 2009 at 13:02

I thought that you had to run a lead from the video card to the sound card to route the sound. I haven't hooked mine up but I think my GTX 280 has connector on the side of it for this purpose.

chuck990 · 11 Sep 2009 at 13:07

using onboard sound, my ati does it itself, it can route the audio through the card and through the DVI slot through an adapter then through an hdmi cable and out through the tv speakers

Wakinglimb · 11 Sep 2009 at 15:40

Nvidia cards require you to run a patch cable (similar to old CD-ROM to Soundcard style) from your sound card to card.

ATI have built in 7.1, so is native.

Hope that helps.

Thomss · 11 Sep 2009 at 16:14

I thought you had to download a driver from the ATI/AMD site?

chuck990 · 11 Sep 2009 at 16:28

dont think i did,,,,

anyone know how to set up an optical connection instead?