How do I have 2 diffrent audio outputs

[Yakub's Chosen]

How do I have 2 diffrent audio outputs.

So this is my issue my wife wants to watch tv and I want to play some games, our tv is hooked up to my desktop and we watch netflix on the television, but I cant seem to figure out how to have my games output audio to my headset and netflix output to our tv.

Right now I play games with no sound but it would be nice to hear the games I'm playing, am I just stupid or is this impossible?

I have windows 10 on my desktop and it has a geforce rtx 2080 with updated drivers, if anyone could point me in the right direction I would really appreciate it.

Also if you need more specs I can give them.

Thank you.

[Kargor]

For starters, SOME software has a setting to select an audio device to use. However, most programs do not have this kind of setting.

In your case, as you bascially want an "infinite" number of games on one output, and just a single application on the other, I'd look at the netflix settings to see if they have a setting for the audio output. If that's the case, tell Windows to use the output that you want to use for the games as the default. and tell netflix to use whatever the other output is.

[Cheezus Crisp]

Windows 10 has a built-in sound output setting.

Settings>System>Sound>App Volume device preferences

You can control individual app sound output from there.

[Yakub's Chosen]

Yes I have tried that it works for a few games an example would be kenshi but not for other games, like mount and blade: warband and starbound.

And as far as I can tell netflix does not have that option.

[Yakub's Chosen]

Also it seems to randomly cut back to the tv.

[K.Mert]

Just close it

[Yakub's Chosen]

Close what?

[Hemipheistos]

Honeslty, i would get a small dedicated computer just for the streaming purpose.
Like a NUC (cheap small box-computer). Or even a Raspberry (if you stream in 4k get the raspberry 4) - Demands some setup knowledge though.

I fear you 2 will not get happy with the one computer setup.
It also very much depends on what soundcard/chip you have on your system.
Some just don't have the options to make it work.
In my case for instance, the 2nd oudio-jack (backside) is muted when i plug in a headphone.
On my previous system there was an option in the drivers to disable that, but in this system NOT.

So, there are so much querks you will run into, its just better to make seperate systems.

Also, i think there are nice TV's out there with built in Streaming functionalitly.
Thats the more expensive solution though.

[Yakub's Chosen]

I have a couple crappier old laptops that might be my best bet. Until I save up and can by her one.

Thank you all for the help.