This is a strange one. Audio output will randomly stop working for a single application. This is not particular to any specific application; the problem simply impacts one application while others continue to produce audio.
No amount of fiddling with the suddenly-unable-to-produce-audio-output application resolves it. Examples such as muting/unmuting the application, or stopping whatever audio it was playing, etc etc. However, if I exit the application and re-launch, audio will work fine. It may hold up for the rest of the day, or possibly only for a very short while (even just seconds).
While audio stops for one application, it will continue to work for other applications. It's like the computer suddenly gets grumpy at one application at random and decides to silence it.
Observations / notes:
I am running Windows 11 23H2 and using nVidia HDMI output for audio. This problem has persisted from the initial version of Windows 11 and through multiple OS patches and updates, as well as new nVidia driver updates.
Any ideas?
No amount of fiddling with the suddenly-unable-to-produce-audio-output application resolves it. Examples such as muting/unmuting the application, or stopping whatever audio it was playing, etc etc. However, if I exit the application and re-launch, audio will work fine. It may hold up for the rest of the day, or possibly only for a very short while (even just seconds).
While audio stops for one application, it will continue to work for other applications. It's like the computer suddenly gets grumpy at one application at random and decides to silence it.
Observations / notes:
- There does not seem to be any correlation between the number of applications running, or how many of them are generating any audio output.
- There does not seem to be any correlation between whether the application is running in the foreground or background.
- The application experiencing this will still list my audio output device (nVidia), and the volume mixer does not list it as muted or with a volume slider suddenly at zero. According to both the application and Windows, it should be able to play audio.
- I may go weeks without this happening, and then have it happen frequently one day.
- There is a high degree of randomness to this.
I am running Windows 11 23H2 and using nVidia HDMI output for audio. This problem has persisted from the initial version of Windows 11 and through multiple OS patches and updates, as well as new nVidia driver updates.
Any ideas?
- Windows Build/Version
- Windows 11 23H2
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 11
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop