How to disable nvidia audio drivers permanently

[The Elder Smurf]

Every time I boot my pc, It reactivates my monitors built in speakers, so its annoying to have to re-disable it every time. Is there a way to remove the audio drivers? I tried uninstalling them but it was an all or nothing (uninstall all the drivers). I have a 1080 and I have a more recent driver (from some time this summer, dont have geforce experience so idk which specifically)

[jt999]

I'd too love to know this, Windows 10 seems to choose audio at boot as a lucky dip. Sometimes it's built in display, sometimes it's my USB headset, and rarely it's the speakers I have actually set as default.

[Volbet]

You shouldn't have to disable them to begin with. You should just pick something else as your default audio device. 

 

To answer your question: 

You could uninstall the drivers and then reinstall them without the audio drivers. 

You just need to do a custom install and uncheck the audio drivers and perform a clean install:

[Zonther]

Audio playback and right click on the nvidia drives and select disable works to!

[Ryujin2003]

Wow. For my AMD, all I have to do is use the volume icon in the task bar. My speakers are default, but as soon as I turn on my Corsair headphones, it auto switched to those. Never had any issues with random stuff like this.

[Ashleyyyy]

go to playback devices, and set your preferred device as default.

[crosstiger]

If you don't care about the monitor's speakers go to Win 10 setting /  Apps and Features and uninstall the nvidia hd audio driver. The next time you install an nvidia driver make sure to uncheck the audio driver like Volbet mentioned.

 

[The Elder Smurf]

On 10/2/2017 at 8:42 AM, Volbet said:

You shouldn't have to disable them to begin with. You should just pick something else as your default audio device. 

 

To answer your question: 

You could uninstall the drivers and then reinstall them without the audio drivers. 

You just need to do a custom install and uncheck the audio drivers and perform a clean install:

Windows 10 likes to re-enable my monitor speakers and set them to default all the time, Also did a safe mode nvidia driver uninstall with ddu and did a clean install afterwards and its still happening

 

On 10/2/2017 at 8:54 AM, Ryujin2003 said:

Wow. For my AMD, all I have to do is use the volume icon in the task bar. My speakers are default, but as soon as I turn on my Corsair headphones, it auto switched to those. Never had any issues with random stuff like this.

I had a r9 380 until recently, got a 1080 second hand recently for a great price. When AMD releases navi I will be going back for sure, this thing has been nothing but a headache.

[Jumper118]

Get a wega 56 and delete nvidia