Overlapping Playback Devices

[EngRos]

Back story: My C Drive was getting full, so to make space I copied one set of program files before deleting them to put them into Program Files (x86). Came back the next day to find certain program icons were missing (although only 2 apps weren't working that we also missing icons). As I hadn't created a restore point, I decided to System Restore but saving all my files and only wiping the apps. Spent the day reinstalling apps and everything seemed dandy, now that everything was being stored to my A drive (3TB)

 

Problem: My monitor has built in speakers and I also have a headset, so I can switch between "gaming mode" and "movie mode". When I first bought this monitor, it created a separate Playback device under the sound settings and everything was well until yesterday (Back story). My monitor is connected by the rear jack and my headset by the front ones, they both work fine however instead of having two separate playback devices that I can choose between, they've collapsed into one.

 

So if one device is unplugged the other plays fine but shows the audio value still coming from the same playback device. The playback device info is showing 4 jack points (even though I only looking at the 2 audio and input jacks), when these devices were separate, the monitor had two and the headset had two. Even if I unplug one and then reconnect it to see if that will force it into a separate device profile to be made, but nope. Even my Reatek shows that both front and rear audio jacks are active on the same device setting. I've even downloaded and installed the most recent driver and I have no clue how to fix it. Like I said, when I first connected the monitor and headset, they worked independently but now I can't figure out how to separate them.

 

Was just wondering if anyone else has had this happen or has any advice. Thanks  

[anothertom]

In the Realtek audio manager there is the option to group all jacks of the same type. If you uncheck this they will appear separately. It's either under advanced options or the little folder at the bottom right or in the other options menu somewhere.

[EngRos]

That fixed it right up! Thank you so much