Ok, so this is a long one.
So I discovered that I was never actually getting 5.1 surround sound on my PC through my receiver when I had it hooked up through an optical output. Found out that this is a common mistake, as the encoding is different when used through optical. Who knew?
I opted to instead go for an HDMI cable, but was stumped when I realized that my NVIDIA card would refuse to play sound unless it was creating an active display. I tried routing a second HDMI cable from my receiver to my monitor, but it appears my receiver got confused over the 1440p resolution and would insist that my resolution was actually 4k. I decided that was probably not good, so I nixed that.
I then disconnected the monitor from the receiver, hooked it up through a display port, then created a phantom screen from my receiver which I duplicated the main display on. I thought I had it licked, but I discovered that for some reason or another I was limited to 30 frames per second on 1440p.
Currently, I am routing the display of a side 1080p monitor through the receiver, which gives me the audio I want, but there are times that I would like to be able to disable the side monitors so my GPU can focus entirely on the main monitor. All in all, a very confusing situation.
Ideally, I'd like the ability to disable the requirement of having HDMI audio requiring a working display. Does anyone have any suggestions? Let me know if anyone needs any clarification.
So I discovered that I was never actually getting 5.1 surround sound on my PC through my receiver when I had it hooked up through an optical output. Found out that this is a common mistake, as the encoding is different when used through optical. Who knew?
I opted to instead go for an HDMI cable, but was stumped when I realized that my NVIDIA card would refuse to play sound unless it was creating an active display. I tried routing a second HDMI cable from my receiver to my monitor, but it appears my receiver got confused over the 1440p resolution and would insist that my resolution was actually 4k. I decided that was probably not good, so I nixed that.
I then disconnected the monitor from the receiver, hooked it up through a display port, then created a phantom screen from my receiver which I duplicated the main display on. I thought I had it licked, but I discovered that for some reason or another I was limited to 30 frames per second on 1440p.
Currently, I am routing the display of a side 1080p monitor through the receiver, which gives me the audio I want, but there are times that I would like to be able to disable the side monitors so my GPU can focus entirely on the main monitor. All in all, a very confusing situation.
Ideally, I'd like the ability to disable the requirement of having HDMI audio requiring a working display. Does anyone have any suggestions? Let me know if anyone needs any clarification.