Help! Nvidia audio crashing my games!

[tweakboy]

quick fix, Use your mobos onboard sound, its better quality by far.

 

[Obsoleet]

Google it yourself, I'm not here to do the work for you. There's many threads out there.

If you use old drivers then some games won't run or will crash, games will run slow and might error out and you'll still be unable to determine a fix, SLI will break for many newer titles. Running drivers from last year is not a solution as I said.

You bring nothing relevant to the conversation, & no solutions. You run hardware from 5 years ago, I would hope drivers would have no problems by now

And I'm not going to do your work for you. I'm not the one making claims I'm not backing up. I have evidence in this very thread. Read the posts.

I never had any issues with HDMI audio on my 5870, and I've used most WHQL releases since launch day (when I bought the card), so again you're making claims without any reasoning behind it.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Actually I am here because I may be able to help the OP. You're here telling him to use drivers with broken SLI in new games etc, and buy an AMD card. The later of which is outright trolling.

HDMI video issue with AMD 6670 card http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/387665-33-radeon-6670-hdmi-issue
HDMI 5.1 not working for games with AMD card http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=375098
HDMI audio cut out with 7970 http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=366333
HDMI audio switching problem with 7970 card http://www.avsforum.com/t/1414479/amd-7970-strange-hdmi-audio-issue

So no manufacturer is immune. There's a million potential setups and issues that could make stuff not work. The OP has an issue that probably can be tracked down through trial and error. Suggesting to buy a new card just since you have no trouble is not helping.

 

[Obsoleet]

So no manufacturer is immune. There's a million potential setups and issues that could make stuff not work. The OP has an issue that probably can be tracked down through trial and error. Suggesting to buy a new card just since you have no trouble is not helping.

Yeah, that would be true your links had anything to do with AMD. Only the 3rd was, and there was a workaround for it. And none of them were showstoppers like the OP's issue.


Your examples-

HDMI video issue with AMD 6670 card http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/38...670-hdmi-issue

Huh? This is a video problem and has nothing to do with audio. Nonsense in the current discussion.

HDMI 5.1 not working for games with AMD card http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=375098

This is an issue with a protected audio stream. Not drivers.

HDMI audio cut out with 7970 http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=366333

This was a bug in 12.8, which there was a workaround for within 12.8.

HDMI audio switching problem with 7970 card http://www.avsforum.com/t/1414479/am...mi-audio-issue

Again, not a driver issue. He even says in the thread it's a configuration issue- it works in PowerDVD.

I was the first in the thread to suggest rolling back to older drivers. The point is not that it's ideal to run like that until the end of time, the point is to pinpoint where the issue lies. If going back to an older version solves it, guess what, you just found your issue.
If he finds its the drivers, he can go forward one WHQL at a time until he finds the latest version that doesn't exhibit the issue.

And that's how it's done. AAAaaand it's valid to add in that a different brand might fix it, especially when the topic is NV HDMI audio. I'm sorry, but you were not informed on this topic. Read the testimonials in the thread again if you still don't accept it.

 

[cmdrdredd]

How about you come back when you actually use modern parts and stop thread crapping and trolling?

Every link I gave was having problems with an amd card. You acted like it was flawless so I provided evidence to the contrary. Now you just want to go back to arguments.

 

[Keysplayr]

Ignore and report. There is now a video moderator that is quite on top of things. Utilize him.
/2 cents.

 

[Nate_007]

I was supposed to provide you guys screenshots of the errors Im getting when using my hdmi, but we had power outage at home last night. We just had the worst rain fall in record here in Toronto. I'll get those screenies when power is back on.

 

[stahlhart]

Everyone: if you're going to post in this thread, please do so with the intent of assisting the OP with their driver issue, and please stop derailing it to argue about non-related anecdotes. Let it go.
-- stahlhart

 

[cmdrdredd]

Or just tell me what the error reports. That'll work too. I dunno if my 670sli will have the same problems or not. We can only try. If it works for me I will post screenshots of how I have things set. Maybe there is something different.

 

[tweakboy]

Or manually set fan speed to 100 percent,, stock speeds and latest WHQL , let us know what happens.. thx gl

 

[Nate_007]

Or just tell me what the error reports. That'll work too. I dunno if my 670sli will have the same problems or not. We can only try. If it works for me I will post screenshots of how I have things set. Maybe there is something different.

Thanks for the help man. I cant remember exactly the errors, like borderlands 2 gives a long error, batman gives like a one liner. So for sure i'll just take the screenies after work. Could be just my video card though, or driver conflict with my Xonar Pheobus sound card? I plan to downgrade/upgrade anyway to a single GTX 780, just waiting if there is something better than OC w/ACX version.

Also, I tried disabling SLI through the control panel and still the same.

 

[Nate_007]

Anyways did not bother taking screenies anymore because its not showing anything anymore...but here are the results:

Borderlands 2 - after clicking play just crashes and windows indicates it stopped working then steam error pops up a window saying "Failed to start game (app already running)"

Skyrim - after clicking play, the screen blinks then back to desktop, no error messages, nothing....

Netflix - so when I click a movie in the browser, after loading to 100%, it crashes and on top of the browser screen it says "Silivelight plug-in has crashed"...

Switching the audio playback to my soundcard everything runs fine. Is it possible my hdmi cable can cause this? I dont have extra one right now so cant test it out.

 

[cmdrdredd]

I'll see what I can find. be back

 

[Will Robinson]

Obsoleet had it spot on re this thread and Cmdrdred you didn't.
He wasn't trolling or thread crapping ...just beating you in the discussion.

Infraction issued for threadcrapping.
-- stahlhart

 

[cmdrdredd]

So I did a bit of messing around and could not get any crashes or errors. I'm using driver 320.49 Have you trued uninstalling your asus drivers and trying it again? I will note that I'm using realtek drivers (with creative XFI audio software) while you are using Asus sound drivers. I can't be certain that this is the root cause but it will eliminate one possibility. If there's any further info you need about my configuration let me know.

My config is like this. SLI GTX 670s with the first card hooked up to my monitor via DVI. Then an HDMI cable running to my Receiver(also from card 1). I left my Klipsch speakers hooked up to the onboard audio connections as well. I just told it to use HDMI as default.

My control panels look like the following.