Audio & Audio Monitoring Not Working After Windows 11 upgrade

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Facefullofdirt

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I just updated to Windows 11.
All my OBS Audio settings haven't been changed/tampered with whatsoever. My Audio settings are the same, as well as the advanced audio settings. My issue is my sound meters are working/moving, but there is no audible audio to my speakers or headset even after they are set to my defaults.

Feeling defeated, No matter what I change - (monitor off) to (monitor and output) or even (monitor mute output), Audio monitoring legit broke itself. I hear audio as a I should in recorded videos after they are made then played back outside of OBS, however there is so sound while making said videos.
I'm just watching a sound meter move rapidly, with no background music, media hot-keyed sound effects in my headset when sources are active, worst of all- no game audio. (using the Elgato HD60s+) Even with the capture card removed from OBS- nothing.
In the recorded videos everything sounds as it should, everything is there. Assume I can still record videos for YouTube or even go live to Twitch and people will hear everything like it's supposed to be, completely unaffected.

It's frustrating that I can't hear anything myself no matter what I change. Updated all the drivers after the Windows 11 update to no affect. I've been going 'There & Back Again' worse than Bilbo Baggins between Windows settings and OBS settings. Nothing, Siltch, Nada. Windows 11 is so new, not many seem to have this same issue. AM I the only one?
Everyone else is having the "black screen thing" but this seems to be a "my issue only" that I'm facing- alone- (according to the internet) because I can't find anyone else with the same problem let alone finding a solution to this struggle. I can't pinpoint the source, is Windows 11? OBS? Or both... That has put me in this predicament. Any suggestions and or help is much appreciated. Thanks for reading!

Rookie Gamer/Streamer---- FaceFullOfDirt

 
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Ricutor

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Hey, I had the same problem with OBS-monitoring after Windows 11 update. My main problem I haven't heard my Alert-sounds for twitch anymore. I found this thread:

Question / Help - Audio Monitoring doesn't work at all

I've just started trying out OBS and love everything so far except for one huge problem - audio monitoring doesn't work at all. - When I add a capture card, I see the volume bar going up and down so I guess it'll output to stream/recording, but I cannot hear it even if I turn monitoring on...
obsproject.com obsproject.com

The first answer says the following:
" Usually, you want to change the Audio Monitoring Device from "default" to your headset. General rule for the audio monitoring device is that you cannot use any device that is also captured by OBS. You would create a feedback loop. For example, if you capture the desktop audio and also use desktop audio as monitoring device. In this case, OBS simply doesn't output the monitored source to that device to break the loop. "

So I looked up in my OBS-Setting (Audio -> advanced --> monitoring)
and my Monitoring-device was the same audio for my desctop-audio. It seems logical for me cause that's the audio my headset is connected to but I changed the monitoring-device to "default" and now it works. Actually, the monitoring sound should still run on the old device even with default, but at least it works now.
 
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cleallewellyn

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I have just installed windows 11. Came to stream on Twitch and although all my audio is working fine, I have no audio signal in OBS. Checked for updates and installed latest version of OBS, checked Drivers are all updated...

Not sure what else to do, it's very strange to suddenly not be working at all
 
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SifoDyas

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I had same problem of no audio in OBS Studio after upgrading to Windows 11. I found my monitoring device (in audio properties) was showing TWO instances of "headphones" - one was shaded grey and one was white. I changed monitoring device to "default" and saved changes.
I then went back into audio settings and... now there was only one instance of "headphones" (in white), I selected it and I had my audio back!

Hopefully this helps :-)
 
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yak_

New Member
I had a similar issue after a Windows 10 update and I found that OBS "forgot" scene sources. I had to select each source and redefine what device it corresponded to.
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I figured this out because the OBS audio mixer meters were not showing any input even though Windows sound meters showed input. When I selected a source it showed "not connected" next to device.

Hope that helps others who Google "obs audio monitoring not working after windows update" like I did.
 
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bournejosan

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Facefullofdirt said:
I just updated to Windows 11.
All my OBS Audio settings haven't been changed/tampered with whatsoever. My Audio settings are the same, as well as the advanced audio settings. My issue is my sound meters are working/moving, but there is no audible audio to my speakers or headset even after they are set to my defaults.

Feeling defeated, No matter what I change - (monitor off) to (monitor and output) or even (monitor mute output), Audio monitoring legit broke itself. I hear audio as a I should in recorded videos after they are made then played back outside of OBS, however there is so sound while making said videos.
I'm just watching a sound meter move rapidly, with no background music, media hot-keyed sound effects in my headset when sources are active, worst of all- no game audio. (using the Elgato HD60s+) Even with the capture card removed from OBS- nothing.
In the recorded videos everything sounds as it should, everything is there. Assume I can still record videos for YouTube or even go live to Twitch for my locksmith and people will hear everything like it's supposed to be, completely unaffected.

It's frustrating that I can't hear anything myself no matter what I change. Updated all the drivers after the Windows 11 update to no affect. I've been going 'There & Back Again' worse than Bilbo Baggins between Windows settings and OBS settings. Nothing, Siltch, Nada. Windows 11 is so new, not many seem to have this same issue. AM I the only one?
Everyone else is having the "black screen thing" but this seems to be a "my issue only" that I'm facing- alone- (according to the internet) because I can't find anyone else with the same problem let alone finding a solution to this struggle. I can't pinpoint the source, is Windows 11? OBS? Or both... That has put me in this predicament. Any suggestions and or help is much appreciated. Thanks for reading!

Rookie Gamer/Streamer---- FaceFullOfDirt

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I also got the same issue. But i got no solution on youtube and obs forum also not have proper solution. So i installed Audacity audio software it might help sometime but not everytime. I also got error sometime then i had to shift from windows 11 to windows 10 as it seems obs team not take it seriously that's why they got no solution yet.
 
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zuviosgemini

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bournejosan said:
I also got the same issue. But i got no solution on youtube and obs forum also not have proper solution. So i installed Audacity audio software it might help sometime but not everytime. I also got error sometime then i had to shift from windows 11 to windows 10 as it seems obs team not take it seriously that's why they got no solution yet.
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Thanks for your honesty. I'm going to see if I can install a second hard drive and dual boot instead of backstepping to W10. At this point I've have to do a clean install anyway so...
 
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