Windows Vista Audio Out

I used to hook up my Xbox360 to my nice dell monitor and play games in hight def. I used the line in on my sound card to listen to the game audio. All i had to do in XP was uncheck the mute box and everything was as good as gold.

however with Windows Vista all the audio out options I have are 'Speakers'. I cannot access the line out portion of my speakers on the output. However on the input panel I can see the bar going up and down when I make noise.

So basicly I cannot unmute my audio aout in Vista RTM. By the way I have show disabled devices and such checked and it's still not there.

I tried another audio card and still no results. The only audio out is 'Speakers'. So what's the problem?

try unmuting your line in / microphone / s/pdif, depends on where you have it plugged into.

please provide me a driver S/W for windows vista ASAP

Everything is unmuted. I just want my input to play back through my speakers. I dont' think it's possible. UGH... I'll have to wait a while for vista if it isn't.

The onboard Dell SigMatel Card as well as the drivers from Dell.

For clarification: I am trying to get the audio in from my soundcard to play back over my speakers.

Yes and Yes.

Hmm... yes there is a program, but there is about a half second delay so it seems to not help.

Hmm.. yes I see that it is now posible, but neither of my sound cards support that.

If there was a way to enable that in the registry...

I had this same problem..  basically the audio drivers you are using are not registering that they support using line-in/mic-in as an output.  I ended up buying a Creative Audigy SE and using the drivers that come with Vista and it works fine.

For me to enable throughput of the line-in.. I right-click on the speaker icon in the systray, click on 'Playback devices'.  Then I double click on the 'Speakers' listing.  In speakers, I click on the 'Levels' tab.  In the levels tab I can mute/unmute Aux, Line-In, Microphone, and midi.

Using the onboard sound and drivers provided by ADI (SoundMax) the levels tab is pretty much empty except for a 'Playback control' slider, which only changes the primary output volume.

Way how Vista works with Audio hardware is very annoying...

I sometimes have to enable/disable/resetup "Speakers" and "Microphones" after jacks in/out. It's annoying. My motherboard have HD and normal input/outputs. Sometimes Vista switches to HD in/out (or even to some ghosts) even if nothing is actually connected. In result nothing is working (sound bars are moving but no actual output).

But I found a workaround - I've just inserted 2-to-1 audio plug into audio-in jack. Now Vista doesn't informs me about stupid "Speakers are disconnected" (I know what speakers ARE disconnected! Because I just disconnected them!).

Try to play with audio setup.

Matthew van Eerde wrote:



neoian wrote:the drivers from Dell

Have you checked Dell's site for Vista drivers, or are you using the XP drivers you already had?  What model Dell is it?

Hmm.. seems to be the same version and everything as the previous ones.

I just installed them and still no changes. I really dont want to go buy a new audio card. Enough PCI slots are filled as it is...

EDIT: Seems if I run Audacity then i can let the sound loop through it. it is kind of low quality, but for now it works. I just wish the old mixer was in Vista.

Hey,

I came across the same problem today but for a different situation, I wanted to use Audacity with Vista using the Sigmatel C Major Audio Sound Card.

The problem I had was that I could not select a recording device in Audacity nor could I see any recording devices in the sound properties.

I put a small tutorial together, take a look and let me no what you think.
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