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Is it possible to reorder audio devices somewhere in the registry or something like that? I've tried literally disabling all audio devices except the one I want to use, and it still ends up often that games will have audio for cutscenes but not for the actual in-game audio, which I assume is different components of the game using different methods to select an audio device. My guess is DirectX audio device index 0 is still pointing at one of the disabled devices instead of the one not-disabled driver, and whoever made those games just selected device 0 as "the default". This impacts about half of the games I've tried since wanting my HDMI audio-out to be the one to use, including quite a lot of AAA games from like 10 years ago. (The game age correlation is why I suspect DirectX.) Before I disabled the devices I don't want to use, I'd get cutscenes in my headphones then the game proper would start making noises out of the laptop speakers.
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Klyith posted:If you are using HDMI output, what is that then feeding that into? Because there are many devices & receivers that have limited sample rate support, and my guess is that your decade-old games are playing low-sample rate audio (a common trick in old games before they had the CPU power to use better formats like ogg), and for some reason instead of being resampled through HDMI it's going to the more compatible sound card. quote:This panel shows you what formats the HDMI supports: (Under either of "Audio inputs and outputs" or "Sound, video and game controllers".) Edit: Ah, found it, obviously you get there by running "control.exe mmsys.cpl" because Windows 10 hides all control panels as hard as it can. Still no luck though.  Does seem likely it's the issue you suggest, HDMI has only supported sample rates 32.0, 44.1 and 48.0kHz. Maybe I can fix this by piping it through Voicemeeter Banana. roomforthetuna fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Jul 31, 2020 |
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roomforthetuna posted:Does seem likely it's the issue you suggest, HDMI has only supported sample rates 32.0, 44.1 and 48.0kHz. Maybe I can fix this by piping it through Voicemeeter Banana. Repeated several times to verify that this is what was happening. Turned off "exclusive" for the Voicemeeter input. When the system pings aren't making any sound I can still see them raising an indicator bar in Voicemeeter's mixer. I think the eventual conclusion is the HDMI device is just a bit poo poo, so I've plugged my headphones into the built-in speakers instead, which is a bit less physically convenient but at least it works. Thanks for helping me diagnose it better! Edit: Oh, yeah, also in evidence for the HDMI device being poo poo, if I select the WDM output to HDMI in Voicemeeter when it's working, system pings turn into some kind of horrible clicky grinding sound like the ping played at half speed with randomly distributed stutters throughout. Whereas WDM to the laptop's own speakers sounds the same as the other kind of output.
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