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Title: Nvidia driver ver. 350.12
Post by: Chalenge on April 14, 2015, 09:29:07 PM
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).
Title: Re: Nvidia driver ver. 350.12
Post by: Copprhed on April 15, 2015, 10:47:19 AM
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
Title: Re: Nvidia driver ver. 350.12
Post by: Chalenge on April 15, 2015, 01:12:36 PM
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.
Title: Re: Nvidia driver ver. 350.12
Post by: Copprhed on April 16, 2015, 04:36:07 AM
I thought that the HDMI was a video passthrough. How does that effect things? Just curious.
Title: Re: Nvidia driver ver. 350.12
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on April 16, 2015, 04:55:56 AM
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.
Title: Re: Nvidia driver ver. 350.12
Post by: 100Coogn on April 16, 2015, 06:16:28 PM
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
Title: Re: Nvidia driver ver. 350.12
Post by: Chalenge on April 16, 2015, 09:25:54 PM
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.
Title: Re: Nvidia driver ver. 350.12
Post by: Copprhed on April 17, 2015, 08:59:19 AM
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.
Title: Re: Nvidia driver ver. 350.12
Post by: Chalenge on April 17, 2015, 12:51:19 PM
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.
Title: Re: Nvidia driver ver. 350.12
Post by: zack1234 on April 19, 2015, 04:18:46 AM
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?