changing sound output

[Blackbeard_teach]

hello.
i have a wireless headset, and sometimes i wish to change into the speakers or the TV.

unfourtanly there is no "audio output" in setting and i need to restart the game for it to work.

any work around?

[Beautiful Ham Sandwich]

From my experience, you have to shut the game down first before any sound changing options take effect. If you're having trouble changing your output device, go to Control Panel>Hardware and sound>Manage audio devices, and then right click and select Set as default device to whatever device you want the sound to go on. You can also just put in "Sound" in the search bar on the start menu

[Blackbeard_teach]

Originally posted by Beautiful Ham Sandwich:

From my experience, you have to shut the game down first before any sound changing options take effect. If you're having trouble changing your output device, go to Control Panel>Hardware and sound>Manage audio devices, and then right click and select Set as default device to whatever device you want the sound to go on. You can also just put in "Sound" in the search bar on the start menu

i am already apply the solution.

need better

[wally314garcia]

Fallout 4 doesn't have audio hardware swapping capabilities. What this means is Fallout 4 mimics Windows' current audio settings on launch. While Fallout 4 is open it will continue to use those mimicked settings. When you change Windows' output audio settings Fallout 4 will not update because mimicking happens only on launch. When you close Fallout 4 and relaunch it, it will then mimic and use the new audio settings.

[Blackbeard_teach]

Originally posted by wally314garcia:

Fallout 4 doesn't have audio hardware swapping capabilities. What this means is Fallout 4 mimics Windows' current audio settings on launch. While Fallout 4 is open it will continue to use those mimicked settings. When you change Windows' output audio settings Fallout 4 will not update because mimicking happens only on launch. When you close Fallout 4 and relaunch it, it will then mimic and use the new audio settings.

wow
76 is about to come out and you reply now?

[Out Of Bubblegum]

Originally posted by Blackbeard_teach:

wow
76 is about to come out and you reply now?

'About to come out?'

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Not until November.

Wat U gonna do til then? Play the trailers on a loop and drool on your screen? Every day until November?

[Blackbeard_teach]

Originally posted by Out Of Bubblegum:

Originally posted by Blackbeard_teach:

wow
76 is about to come out and you reply now?

'About to come out?'

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Not until November.

Wat U gonna do til then? Play the trailers on a loop and drool on your screen? Every day until November?

the game is right around the corner, plus it will be a copy paste from the old game so yea

about to come out.

[Mr. Valuable]

Just rolling in three years later to confirm that it was pretty much a copy>paste with multiplayer, and yes even 76 left out the ability to change audio device in game. Still have to restart after connecting headphones. Having fun, but imo the fallout series has only gotten better in small increments since new vegas.

[Wildcard]

100$ says Star Field does this same ♥♥♥♥

[Anarasha]

Originally posted by Blackbeard_teach:

Originally posted by wally314garcia:

Fallout 4 doesn't have audio hardware swapping capabilities. What this means is Fallout 4 mimics Windows' current audio settings on launch. While Fallout 4 is open it will continue to use those mimicked settings. When you change Windows' output audio settings Fallout 4 will not update because mimicking happens only on launch. When you close Fallout 4 and relaunch it, it will then mimic and use the new audio settings.

wow
76 is about to come out and you reply now?

It has been 5 years and I still play Fallout 4 rather than 76. You feel silly yet?

[Go Fish]

Originally posted by wally314garcia:

Fallout 4 doesn't have audio hardware swapping capabilities. What this means is Fallout 4 mimics Windows' current audio settings on launch.

Well, if that's how they implemented it, then it's all screwed up forever. Windows no longer acts statically, and settings on launch aren't same as later, because there application-specific pfoile in late Win10 version and in Win11.

What actually happens that after intro playback profile changes (that playback uses Microsoft's tools)

[cswiger]

Are people really adding or removing speakers while playing Fallout 4?
Why isn't restarting the game after changing from 5.1 to 7.1 or vice versa a valid solution?

If the issue is only that someone has a multichannel setup but wants to switch to headphones while playing, that is normally not a problem if your hardware supports it.

For a specific example, Creative sound cards can produce both a 5.1 Dolby Digital Live signal via SPDIF over TOSLINK or copper and also generate a stereo downmix via the headphones jack. For another specific example, an external AVR like a Marantz 6010 can accept multichannel audio via TOSLINK (or copper, or HDMI, or even RCA inputs) and produce a stereo downmix itself via its own headphones jack.

But if you are generating multichannel audio on your GPU via HDMI, well, those don't tend to come with stereo headphones jacks and so GPUs won't produce a stereo downmix. Get an AVR which can, if that is what you want.

[Tesityr]

I am playing with Wireless headphones only now, late bloomer, and it seems almost every game has to be restarted to utilize the Wireless Headphones after turning on the Bluetooth/etc.

I think OP wanted some crazy-fast-easy solution that only takes one step

[cswiger]

Originally posted by Tesityr:

I think OP wanted some crazy-fast-easy solution that only takes one step

Sure. But with the right hardware, it only takes one step.

(A decent AVR supports Bluetooth directly nowadays, and even a preference for whether or not to mute audio to the speakers if headphones are connected.)

[[uG]azzaisme]

2024 here. Fallout 4 has become even more popular due to the tv show

You still can't change your output device without restarting the game

[Seanko69]

hey yea he is right still no way to chnage it (havent downloaded the new up;datew) but i doubt it.
for me fallout 4 doesntn work on airpods so ngay