Hi everyone,
I’ve been using OBS with browser-based Sound Alerts for years. Everything always worked fine — the sounds played through stream and I could hear them via monitoring on my HyperX Cloud II Wireless headset.
But recently (after a break and GPU driver update), I noticed:
Disabling “Control audio via OBS” lets me hear the sound (via Desktop Audio), but I lose all source separation.
Does anyone know if recent OBS changes or a Windows/NVIDIA update could have affected browser source monitoring?
Any help or suggestions would be massively appreciated!
Thanks in advance.
I’ve been using OBS with browser-based Sound Alerts for years. Everything always worked fine — the sounds played through stream and I could hear them via monitoring on my HyperX Cloud II Wireless headset.
But recently (after a break and GPU driver update), I noticed:
Problem:
- Viewers hear all alert sounds
- OBS shows activity in the mixer
- But I don’t hear them anymore via Monitoring
- The issue affects all Browser Sources
- Media files do work with monitoring!
What I’ve tried (none worked):
- Set “Monitor and Output” on affected sources
- Explicitly selected HyperX Cloud II Wireless as Monitoring Device (not “Default”)
- Disabled NVIDIA HDMI audio + VoiceMeeter
- Ran OBS as admin
- Clean reinstall of OBS including user settings
- Tried disabling/enabling “Control audio via OBS”
- Tried rebuilding scenes & profiles
Disabling “Control audio via OBS” lets me hear the sound (via Desktop Audio), but I lose all source separation.
System Info:
- OBS 31.0.3 (64-bit, Windows)
- Output device: HyperX Cloud II Wireless (default)
- No active audio filters
- No active VoiceMeeter routing
- Windows 10 fully updated
- GPU: NVIDIA RTX series (latest driver)
Does anyone know if recent OBS changes or a Windows/NVIDIA update could have affected browser source monitoring?
Any help or suggestions would be massively appreciated!
Thanks in advance.