Heya everyone,
firstly let me start with what the issue is.....
I am a big fan of steam, I mean almost all of the games I play are on steam, so its my go to place for all my gaming needs at the moment. My issue is that if I want to play something on steam and my girlfriend or anyone else who is over wants to watch something on my TV (3rd Monitor), I cant really put anything on from my browser due to the fact that both my browser (chrome) and pretty much any steam game has no option for audio output.
I have headphones which I wear when I play games and I have an Pioneer surround sound system as a secondary audio output, is there anything I can do to be able to still play games and allow people to watch eg. Youtube/Netflix at the same time? I am currently limited to Blizzard based games once they start watching as I can change the Audio Output to my headphones.
My current fix is to open Media Player Classic and put on movies/tv shows I already own but then that limits what they can watch. I do have a soundcard which I am currently not using but its in my machine, the Xonar Essence Stx if that helps in anyway.
Appreciate the help as this has been going on for years now and I am really getting annoyed with the amount of back and forth whenever someone wants to watch.
firstly let me start with what the issue is.....
I am a big fan of steam, I mean almost all of the games I play are on steam, so its my go to place for all my gaming needs at the moment. My issue is that if I want to play something on steam and my girlfriend or anyone else who is over wants to watch something on my TV (3rd Monitor), I cant really put anything on from my browser due to the fact that both my browser (chrome) and pretty much any steam game has no option for audio output.
I have headphones which I wear when I play games and I have an Pioneer surround sound system as a secondary audio output, is there anything I can do to be able to still play games and allow people to watch eg. Youtube/Netflix at the same time? I am currently limited to Blizzard based games once they start watching as I can change the Audio Output to my headphones.
My current fix is to open Media Player Classic and put on movies/tv shows I already own but then that limits what they can watch. I do have a soundcard which I am currently not using but its in my machine, the Xonar Essence Stx if that helps in anyway.
Appreciate the help as this has been going on for years now and I am really getting annoyed with the amount of back and forth whenever someone wants to watch.