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Using four speakers
To help my eyesight I have just bought a 34 inch curved monitor. It takes some getting used to but with the curve helping focus and the width allowing me to shuffle windows around ad lib it is a great help - again, it takes some getting used to! Its an Iiyama Red Eagle G-Master GB3466WQSU. It looks like they haven't yet been able to develop a specific driver, but the PnP MS generic driver seems to work fine.
When checking through all the new features I realised that the monitor has inbuilt speakers that are larger than usual and further checking found that the Nvidea Geforce graphic card puts out audio on the HDMI and the Display Port connectors! I checked using Windows Sounds and lo and behold, the test sound can be heard, with no special configuration, on the monitor speakers.
As poor eyesight can only be helped by better sound, I checked that my better quality external speakers could still be heard. Yes! (They are fed through the standard inbuilt Realtek unit.)
But now comes the snag. The test sound can be heard on one set or the other, but never both together. I have tried all sorts of selections on the various boxes in Sounds but still can't get all four working at once. Even trying to setup Quadraphonic mode doesn't seem to help. (The configuration tab shows all four but using Test although all four get the animation symbol on the speaker icons only two speakers actually sound.)
According to the "help" notes on Sounds it seems that I should be able to hear all four at once but the information is so vague that I can't work my way to a satisfactory result through the many selection boxes.
So - HELP!
Win 10 Pro 20H2 ver 19042.388 (don't ask!)