Windows 10 and sound

[Laika Ravikumar]

Hi hope some of you clever people can help. I just got new pc with windows 10. Everything works fine. However, until yesterday I could choose whether to listen through headphones or if I disconnected them the sound came through the inbuilt speakers, For some reason and I have no idea what happened if I want to use the headphones I have to go into control panel and choose them as the default and if I want the speakers I have to make them the default. While this is not a big problem I just wondered if anyone could tell me what had happened still finding my way around windows 10. The headphones are plugged in to USB and if I make the speakers the default its NVDIA High Def Audio default communications device,.  Thank you. 

[Paul Hexem]

I'm having this problem myself. Filed a JIRA and done quite a bit of troubleshooting. As far as I can tell, SL doesn't support USB sound on Windows 10 unless it's the default device.

[Devriv]

Hello Laika :smileyhappy:

Your system likely uses Realtek for audio, making the Nvidia audio driver unnecessary. As I* always update my card’s drivers manually, I don’t know if Nvidia’s updater auto-installs its audio driver.

You should see “Realrek High Definition Audio” listed in Device Manager. If you also see “High Definition Audio Device”, that’s also a Realtek driver, a Windows-certified one.

Some would recommend disabling the Nvidia HD audio driver in the device manager. I would recommend uninstalling it (under Programs), then unplugging the headphones and restarting the computer.

I hope this helps.

*I’m not an expert; building and repairing PCs has been a hobby.

[Rhonda Huntress]

You may want to try Windows 10 sound diagnostic tool.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/fix-sound-problems#v1h=tab03

 

It will find and fix most problems for you.

[steph Arnott]

I still can not understand why you filed a JIRA, it is a personal system issue, has nothing to do with LL.