As per the title, any insights on how to keep HDMI audio alive when the monitor goes to sleep? For now, I've set the screensaver to "blank" and disabled the power options to put the monitor to sleep (I have an OLED monitor so this seems relatively fine) but wondering if there's any more elegant solutions? I tend to leave music playing on my PC while doing other things.
Current setup is HDMI from the onboard AMD iGPU over to a Sony STR-DN1050, which is a bit old and only has ARC. If I disable HDMI output on the AVR, the audio stops working. Likewise if I unplug the monitor from the AVR, there's no audio (even though I'm using DP for my actual screen output).
My monitor (Samsung G85SD) does support ARC/eARC, but I tried that briefly and only got 2 channel audio. Uncertain if buying an eARC receiver would allow that to pass 5.1 or not. But I don't see how this would solve the issue of audio dropping when the monitor sleeps though.
As for using SPDIF, and something I had looked for in my X870 motherboard dilemmas, I overlooked the fact that nobody seems to ship with Dolby Digital Live or DTS Connect anymore. I recall using RTKDeviceConfig on my old X570 board to "unlock" DTS Connect support, but that tool doesn't appear to work with the ALC4080 on this board. SPDIF does not output 5.1 sound for games without it being wrapped in DD/DTS.
This board does come with Dolby Atmos licensing, but that doesn't seem to offer any ability to encode SPDIF output as DD. The Atmos for Home Theatre option doesn't actually work at all (but this AVR does not support Atmos).
Is anyone even using 5.1 speaker setups on Windows for gaming? Or has that phase passed and everyone's using USB headsets or just 2 bookshelf speakers?
I suppose I can just find other methods of getting music to the AVR too...
Current setup is HDMI from the onboard AMD iGPU over to a Sony STR-DN1050, which is a bit old and only has ARC. If I disable HDMI output on the AVR, the audio stops working. Likewise if I unplug the monitor from the AVR, there's no audio (even though I'm using DP for my actual screen output).
My monitor (Samsung G85SD) does support ARC/eARC, but I tried that briefly and only got 2 channel audio. Uncertain if buying an eARC receiver would allow that to pass 5.1 or not. But I don't see how this would solve the issue of audio dropping when the monitor sleeps though.
As for using SPDIF, and something I had looked for in my X870 motherboard dilemmas, I overlooked the fact that nobody seems to ship with Dolby Digital Live or DTS Connect anymore. I recall using RTKDeviceConfig on my old X570 board to "unlock" DTS Connect support, but that tool doesn't appear to work with the ALC4080 on this board. SPDIF does not output 5.1 sound for games without it being wrapped in DD/DTS.
This board does come with Dolby Atmos licensing, but that doesn't seem to offer any ability to encode SPDIF output as DD. The Atmos for Home Theatre option doesn't actually work at all (but this AVR does not support Atmos).
Is anyone even using 5.1 speaker setups on Windows for gaming? Or has that phase passed and everyone's using USB headsets or just 2 bookshelf speakers?
I suppose I can just find other methods of getting music to the AVR too...