Win 7 audio devices frustration

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haloo101

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#41292 14-Sep-2009 09:37

Hi

I am using win 7 pro (86) RTM and having two audio hardware devices.
So what i want to do is to set different applications to play audio on different devices. Is that possible?
I remembered I was able to do that in vista. and that was awesome !!. I googled but no avail. If anyone has some answer please share

Thanks

rhysb

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#255535 14-Sep-2009 10:18

Yes it works the same way in Win 7 as it did in Vista. Your application will need to be able to specify the output device to use.

haloo101

77 posts

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#255632 14-Sep-2009 16:07

rhysb: Yes it works the same way in Win 7 as it did in Vista. Your application will need to be able to specify the output device to use.

Well not many application can and i tried that on vlc which once worked on xp.. but now no longer work..

allstarnz

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#255636 14-Sep-2009 16:14

to slightly hijack the thread, does Windows 7 put the audio device asleep when it's not in use? I notice sometimes there is a lag of about 3 seconds to fire up the sound when it's used for the first time in a while.

haloo101

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#255647 14-Sep-2009 16:44

allstarnz: to slightly hijack the thread, does Windows 7 put the audio device asleep when it's not in use? I notice sometimes there is a lag of about 3 seconds to fire up the sound when it's used for the first time in a while.

it should be according to this post http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/01/06/windows-7-energy-efficiency.aspx