Nvidia High Definition Audio No Sound Displayport

System loses sound when a display is connected using a displayport or high definition media interface hdmi.

Nvidia high definition audio no sound displayport. It will work with other windows with no sound. This issue can also occur when the users. No sound with displayport or hdmi video cable connection when an audio supported video cable is being used such as a displayport or hdmi cable windows may change the default audio device to the audio supported cable thinking another audio device is being used. The no sound problem occurs to users with nvidia high definition audio drivers installed and it often reflects itself when using hdmi to stream audio and video to other screens.

Sometimes the problem appears when installing the latest drivers and sometimes the cause is more mysterious. Each time i update my nvidia graphics drivers no matter if it s via windows update or via geforce experience or manually ok manually i m able to choose to not install the audio driver so a kind of workaround it s also reinstalling the nvidia audio driver so randomly one of my displayport connected monitors will be the new and default. The nvidia high definition audio no sound problem on windows will occur when the users use the hdmi for streaming audio and video to any other display. The set up digital audio page lists the nvidia gpus in the system that have audio capable display connections and then lists those connections hdmi displayport or dvi.

For each connection this page lists the audio capable displays that will appear as audio devices in the windows sound panel based on default or previous selections.