Nvidia driver ver. 350.12

[Chalenge]

If you plan on playing GTA V (esp. on Steam) you will want this latest version.

You cannot use an audio receiver between GPU and display, previously bugged).

[Copprhed]

Only if you're using the HDMI cable for sound, I'd imagine. I use optical out from my sound card to the receiver with no problems

[Chalenge]

I don't think there is another way to hook up audio from the GPU. It's always been better (I would say essential) to use an audio card, but there were a few people in AH that were using a receiver between GPU and display. There are a few other known issues, but they have been mentioned to death already.

[Copprhed]

I thought that the HDMI was a video passthrough. How does that effect things? Just curious.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

There's always the option to pull the sound separately and use the hdmi only for the image. In some rare cases (when using TVs as displays) panel delays may cause the sound to be out of sync but if that happens your TV has unplayable amounts of input lag to boot.

[100Coogn]

I use Nvidia's HDMI, so I can have sound to my monitors little speakers.  Just to keep things quiet when I need to.  When I need to get loud I just switch the playback device to my sound-blaster and all is good.

Coogan

[Chalenge]

I thought that the HDMI was a video passthrough. How does that effect things? Just curious.

GPUs actually have audio processing capability, but using it is begging for trouble. There is nothing better than a sound card, an actual physically present audio card. It's not like this has changed from two weeks ago when the same question came up. Yet, people that were actually in that discussion have already forgotten the lesson. And I do not mean you, Copprhed.

[Copprhed]

GPUs actually have audio processing capability, but using it is begging for trouble. There is nothing better than a sound card, an actual physically present audio card. It's not like this has changed from two weeks ago when the same question came up. Yet, people that were actually in that discussion have already forgotten the lesson. And I do not mean you, Copprhed.

Lol challenge, I'm referring to the HDMI passthrough on the receiver. I thought video passed through without a problem, though I've not used it. I rout the sound for my puter by optical connection from my SoundBlaster Z directly to the receiver, and use HDMI from the video card to the TV. No out of sinc sound, just pure pleasure to listen to when watching a movie or hearing music.

[Chalenge]

You are very lucky if you get consistent quality, or especially constant audio. What most people (that have reported an issue) have said is that it will suddenly fail. After failure it may, or may not return, but that it will never again be consistent.

Like you I never had an issue with the optical feed to the receiver. In the end I went with direct 5.1 speakers instead of the two channel optical.

[zack1234]

I use HDMI to monitor/TV and in game use sound card.

Never used optical sound output, is it any good?

What is this reciever?