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I need my Speaker Setup locked in to Dolby Atmos for home theater, please.
I have a very similar situation, and I might have stumbled across a solution to yours.
My issue, I cant get my system to recognize which is the Dolby Atmos speakers? it plays both the side and rear speakers off the same (rear) speakers, with no way to adjust the Atmos speakers being on top of my FR and FR speakers= Definitive Technologies 9080x. It is driving me nuts.
A possible solution for you; I figured out I have to log out/put my system to sleep/fully shut down the computer before powering down my receiver. Then powering everything back on starting with the receiver. Its the only way I haven't had to reset sound settings each darn time.
Hope I helped, any help in return is appreciated! Ive posted on some hifi forums and no luck yet.
Rob
RoHCo Thank you for replying. Since this post I've tried a couple solutions including a third party audio switcher. Even with that, sometimes when I come back the audio is muted in the active window (game) with no way to unmute it without quitting the app and relaunching. Then other times when the entire computer is muted so interestingly enough, this week I ran the troubleshooter (again) and realized the last two times all it did was stop and restart the audio drivers. Well, I can do that. So I got my hands on this snippet of AHK script and it works just fine.
^+s::
RunWait,sc stop "AudioSrv" ;Stop AudioSrv service.
RunWait,sc start "AudioSrv" ;Start AudioSrv service.
return
Note: While this may work as a standalone AHK script, I'm only quoting the part I added to my existing script so the opening lines and other functionalities in my master script are not shown here. What to put at the start of your personal AHK compilation would need to be researched to match your specific setup and uses.
IVHed My solution is a program called "Sound Keeper". Download the exe, rename the executable to "all.exe" and you can go to your sound mixer and mute it. The readme is more in-depth, but this is my oversimplification of the process. Keepalive = 1 🙂 No drop outs.
For others having issues and you are pulling your hair out because this doesn't work, DDU in safe mode, stay in safe mode after DDU runs, (ensure most settings are enabled in DDU, disable windows updates through DDU), remove all your windows graphics caches in the registry (google removing monitor nvidia graphics profiles in regedit), I went a few steps further in many departments such as uninstalling chipset drivers for the motherboard and audio (onboard audio is disabled in BIOS, but there are still octopus tentacles everywhere wanting to grab an IRQ/MSI it shouldn't or is sharing), run a program called MSI_util_v3 (google) as admin and every line that says MSI or MSI-X is supported, enable MSI. Feel free to explore "max" and "max limit" on your own time, restart after changes to chipset driver removal and MSI (Messaging Signal Interrupt is superior to IRQ) enablement.
My setup is an MSI (brand, not protocol) Big Bang X-Power II, MSI (brand, not protocol) Geforce 3080 GA102-202-A1 with a flashed vBIOS of a higher tier video card for TDP increase purposes, i7 4930k, 32GB DDR3 RAM. I have two Dell monitors, which adds a layer of complexity as they both are connected via DP 1.4, have output 3.5mm speaker ports, and want to claim ownership of my audio services given even a single drop of blood atomized into the air (Get it, Dolby Atmos, Atomized, eh).
Returning to the chipset drivers, in safe mode, I actually uninstalled and uninstalled and removed the associated driver to most of the system devices (High Definition Audio Controller is in there, what a
buggah) minus the ones that don't start with "Intel() C600/X79 series chipset xxxxxxxxxxx". I uninstalled every single monitor, all Audio inputs and outputs, all SOund, video and game controllers, I enabled "show disconnected, hidden devices" and removed every single one of those except a choice few (Use discretion if necessary). I uninstalled iCUE (Might me ROG Armory for others, any LED or motherboard control devices. I uninstalled my microphone (R0DE Podcast, it has an output speaker as well).
I tried DCH drivers reinstalling my Nvidia drivers at first, this test was good. I redid everything, then installed the Geforce Experience software and went that route ultimately.
HPET is disabled under "System Devices".
Thank you, Microsoft Teams Team, for allowing this thread and posts to continue, as I was having issues with Microsoft Teams and my solution above corrected the issue. As soon as a meeting would start under a Citrix environment with Vt-D and standard Virtualization enabled in BIOS, my computer would hard crash. I was unable to get my receiver to recognize Dolby Atmos, or even an HDMI signal at all, ARC enabled/disabled, Pass-through on/off, ECO on/off, handshake failures, cable swaps did not work, testing on a work laptop proved instant results, which added frustration to a clean install of Windows 10 22H2 which is a combination of work and play.
TL;DR: Safe Mode, DDU v18.0.6.9, Do Not Restart, Remove all chipset specific drivers and uninstall the drivers associated with them, restart in safe mode, check to make sure most/all chipset specific drivers associated with your chipset are removed, remove all cached window and graphics settings in your registry via regedit (Mine are located here Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers) and I individually deleted each key in the folders: Configuration, Connectivity, ScaleFactors, MonitorDataStore, AdditionalModeLists. Restart computer, reinstall your manufacturer chipset drivers from your motherboard support website, restart, install any optional updates Windows 10 wants to install (I do a restore point before doing this step in case something goes south and I can revert back), restart, install Geforce Experience drivers (Studio or Game Ready did not seem to make any difference whatsoever), restart. On the hardware side, it is advised not to hot plug HDMI cords while appliances are running due to a low DC voltage, do what you want in this regard, I tried 149 different combinations of on/off, sleep, hibernate, shut down, on both the receiver and the PC, it all pointed to a software configuration issue. Download sound keeper, rename SoundKeeper.exe to All.exe, run, sound mixer, mute or put volume at 0, enable your Atmos or 7.1 or whatever in sound settings, enable or disable your other devices as needed; a lot of websites will say to prune your audio devices and show hidden or disabled, those are low level duh moment type fixes, where others may need more in-depth cleaning and analysis of the issue. All my monitors have their inf's installed and are enabled and hanging out. Make sure your MSI/MSI-X settings are on for positive IRQ numbered devices using MSI_util_v3.exe.
Good luck, all! May this help one individual out there three years from now.
Very Respectfully,
Tristan
