hey guys, i have a headset for gaming and i would like to use it for gaming only. i would like to my headsets active whilst gaming and when im not sound then comes through speakers for web browsing and stuff ( this will automatically happen) is there any way i can do this?
It's an issue I run into and I have found a couple of solutions, none of them perfect. The simplest and probably the best is to get a Y cable splitter so you can have both headphones and speakers plugged in at the same time and just use the hardware volume control on each. For a while I was using two sound sources, USB headphones and the speakers from the sound card. The tricky bit was swapping between them in software. You could always have the speakers plugged in the back and the headphones plugged in the front. Swapping between them with software or just having them both on and using the volume controls. I personally prefer the Y split and volume control method the best. In writing this it has reminded me that I need to find that Y split cable, blooming thing is in my office somewhere...
The splitter sounds good thanks man