Change sound output device?

[Paultvplus]

How do I change/set the sound output device?

[Darksidewalker]

This is set on your OS, not ingame.

[Akemua]

Usually through windows. At the bottom right on the taskbar you can change it there and the game usually changes with it.

[Paultvplus]

Ah I'm sorry, thats not what I wanted to know - but thank you!

My goal is to stream Spongebob on the TV (with sound from TV) and play MHWilds with sound via headphones.

I can't set the audio output device for my browser, so I tried to set it in MHWilds but I can't find any option to set the device ingame.

[Paultvplus]

Originally posted by Darksidewalker:

This is set on your OS, not ingame.

Which confused me - there is no option ingame to set the device specific for the game?

[Darksidewalker]

Originally posted by Paultvplus:

Originally posted by Darksidewalker:

This is set on your OS, not ingame.

Which confused me - there is no option ingame to set the device specific for the game?

... let me say it slowly: n-o-t ... i-n-g-a-m-e

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Paultvplus:

Originally posted by Darksidewalker:

This is set on your OS, not ingame.

Which confused me - there is no option ingame to set the device specific for the game?

No. The game is a console port, and normally a console does not support multiple outputs for multiple tasks. Hence you would not find such ingame.

[Mrmas]

Thanks for your answers, this helped me catch that my audio output switched on me after connecting a monitor.

For the original question in this thread, I was wondering if you are running windows 10? And was also wondering if you already tried using the " app volume and device preferences " page? For me, I can change the audio output for my open applications such as mhwilds and browser.

You can get to the page by right clicking the volume icon in taskbar -> select "open sound settings" -> under adv sound settings, select app volume and device preferences".

[KineticZen]

I don't see a lot of games, "console port" or otherwise, which allow you to manage sound output devices in-game (input is more common for games that use voice chat).

A shortcut to get to the legacy Sound Control Panel settings that'll save you several clicks is to just hit Win & type mmsys.cpl, which will bring up the Control Panel item directly. You can also create a desktop shortcut to save yourself more time.