I had a heck of a time getting both to output simultaneously. It basically combines the front panel and rear jacks into a single output and you lose independent control of front panel audio. Not sure why you would have to select this, but this was the only way to get mine working.Ĭouldn't there just be a check boxes for all devices and what sounds to play through them? Seems this would be easy to implement.ĪDDED: Tested the previous answer - selecting speakers for the front panel device type does work without having to disable front panel jack detection but you still have to keep 'Mute the rear audio device when headphones are plugged in' checked. Set speakers as default and click 'Device advanced settings' and mute the rear output device when headphones are plugged in. For whatever reason, this changes the 'HD Audio 2nd output' to 'Mic in at front panel (pink)' which was not visible before. (ie front panel headphone jack) then do as described above - click the yellow folder in Realtek HD audio Manager and check disable front panel jack detection). If you are able to get the above screen with both 'Speakers' and the 'HD Audio 2nd output' tabs. You won't have any sound in MW II and some other games. Sound options but in some of them you cannot (MW II)īTW if you don't set anything as Default in Realtek Audio Manager

Onto different outputs as I'm typing this post.įor some games you can choose the output too (Black Ops) in game Such as audoi- and video-players, where you can change output toĪs a result my Foobar2000 (audio) and MPC (video) are playing If you choose the other option in Advanced, you will have only one streamĪnd now you have multiple choice for output in popular applications Make Front and Rear output devices playback two different audio streams simultaneously. If you can't see that Tab, go to Device Advanced Settings and change it to

In Realtek Audio Manager (but keep Speakers tab as default output). Settings and change Front Panel Type from HD Audio to AC97Īfter restarting you have now Tab called HD Audio 2nd output I solved the problem with different output to the front panelĪll you need to do is to go to Onboard Devices Configuration in BIOS

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