Why is it so hard to get a win 10 computer to get sound to work on win 11 ?

[Markfw]

title say it all. I have a win 10 Taichi x670e, but the sound says its there, but no sound on win 11. WTF ? I looked on newegg and amazon, and almost nothing says its supposed to wonk on win 11 for a discrete sound card.

 

[Markfw]

A lot of the cards have the

CMI8738 Chipset​

But some says win 10/11 support and others says neither.

example.

https://www.newegg.com/p/2S7-09MK-00493?item=9SIA9Y1KMC2024&utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic+shopping&utm_campaign=knc-googleadwords-_-gadgets-_-enfain-_-9SIA9Y1KMC2024&source=region&srsltid=AfmBOooPjPcmvjcVyEKHJGH3H1gD1E2eUMBXv0jCDdx47qbamxtOHiHqxqE

 

[igor_kavinski]

That's very old low quality card. You are better off with USB sound.

https://www.newegg.com/p/23H-00MY-00043

There's a more expensive $79 Creative one. But this should do fine too.

 

[DaaQ]

Creative Alchemy was for W10. The work around.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Creative Alchemy was for W10. The work around.

Thanks. I actually never heard of that and searching for it helped me find this: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2487107657

 

[Markfw]

OK, the answer was cheap.This for $12

Amazon.com

thats it ! Of course its because it had an Nvidia card in it already.

 

[DaaQ]

I guess the first question should have been what is the sound card connected to.
I had to go in and disable audio on 1 of my monitors, headset is a PITA for switching between speakers and mic headset in Blizzard game. But my discrete sound is connected to M-Audio Studiophile LX4 with sub providing powered amp. Had to go to Guitar Center to get the cables needed. But this was also before Amazon was a thing.

 

[Markfw]

I guess the first question should have been what is the sound card connected to.
I had to go in and disable audio on 1 of my monitors, headset is a PITA for switching between speakers and mic headset in Blizzard game. But my discrete sound is connected to M-Audio Studiophile LX4 with sub providing powered amp. Had to go to Guitar Center to get the cables needed. But this was also before Amazon was a thing.

The original is a sound "card" built into the motherboard, and I installed the drivers, but they are only supposed to work with Win 10. They DID before I upgraded. But after only this "nvidia" sound showed in device manager. Once I got this adapter, it worked.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Once I got this adapter, it worked.

Not a solution I would've guessed would work but that's really interesting. How is it connected exactly? HDMI cable from your Nvidia card goes into this and then another HDMI cable from adapter to monitor and audio cable from adapter to your speakers?

 

[Markfw]

Not a solution I would've guessed would work but that's really interesting. How is it connected exactly? HDMI cable from your Nvidia card goes into this and then another HDMI cable from adapter to monitor and audio cable from adapter to your speakers?

Yes ! Never had that as a solution before. Not sure the in/out/ but chaech the pictures of the device I linked.

edit: no. that way (that you described) or the opposite.