Windows 10: Force HDMI to carry 5.1 Dolby or whatever

The Nvidia card has a display port to HDMI adapter, which I use to connect to the HDMI audio extractor which sends the HDMI on to the HDTV.

But all the sound it ever gets is stereo.
I plug a fireTV stick into the HDMI splitter and I get 5.1 Dolby out of the sound coaxial port on both the splitter and the HDTV, so the hardware works.

It is pretty neat the Nvidia driver refuses to pass any 5.1 sound to the HDTV, that really is a wonderful thing! Since the Nvidia driver is sensing the HDTV cant play 5.1 on it's speakers it refuses to send anything but stereo, even though the HDTV can pass 5.1 dolby or LPCM out ots coax to the AV receiver.

If anyone knows of a working way to force or spoof Nvidia driver EDID monitoring please let me know.
This here below did not work.
Custom Resolution Utility (CRU)

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I did huge amount of google searching and may have found a solution on the nvidia forum. I will find out tomorrow and post back what happens. What Nvidia has done here is deliberate so it requires making a new driver inf file for the monitor that tells the nvidia driver it has a certain sound capability.

I could imagine anything from dumb and dumber for the reasons it does this, to marketing agreements and sales for new AV receivers and HDTV with ARC as another where the old hardware gets abandoned in the interest of forcing people to spend more money to get surround sound by making them but new equipment.

Another could be due to this big push for people to buy these small streaming devices versus using a traditional HTPC, which MS seems to be not too interested in anymore either with them abandoning WMC as evidence of that.
And my small FIRETV stick works fine with DD 5.1 sound being outputted to the AV receiver, further evidence they want people to not be using HTPC anymore..

:)

 

Force HDMI to carry 5.1 Dolby or whatever

The Nvidia card has a display port to HDMI adapter, which I use to connect to the HDMI audio extractor which sends the HDMI on to the HDTV.

But all the sound it ever gets is stereo.
I plug a fireTV stick into the HDMI splitter and I get 5.1 Dolby out of the sound coaxial port on both the splitter and the HDTV, so the hardware works.

It is pretty neat the Nvidia driver refuses to pass any 5.1 sound to the HDTV, that really is a wonderful thing! Since the Nvidia driver is sensing the HDTV cant play 5.1 on it's speakers it refuses to send anything but stereo, even though the HDTV can pass 5.1 dolby or LPCM out ots coax to the AV receiver.

If anyone knows of a working way to force or spoof Nvidia driver EDID monitoring please let me know.
This here below did not work.
Custom Resolution Utility (CRU)

- - - Updated - - -

I did huge amount of google searching and may have found a solution on the nvidia forum. I will find out tomorrow and post back what happens. What Nvidia has done here is deliberate so it requires making a new driver inf file for the monitor that tells the nvidia driver it has a certain sound capability.

I could imagine anything from dumb and dumber for the reasons it does this, to marketing agreements and sales for new AV receivers and HDTV with ARC as another where the old hardware gets abandoned in the interest of forcing people to spend more money to get surround sound by making them but new equipment.

Another could be due to this big push for people to buy these small streaming devices versus using a traditional HTPC, which MS seems to be not too interested in anymore either with them abandoning WMC as evidence of that.
And my small FIRETV stick works fine with DD 5.1 sound being outputted to the AV receiver, further evidence they want people to not be using HTPC anymore..

 

Why exactly is ATi considered be better at HDMI?

I plug my HDMI cable into the card, then into my TV. Those are the steps that I have to do. All the steps you list make absolutely no sense to me.

 

Dolby Atmos

I checked this line:

5. Look for Dolby Atmos to make sure that it is properly installed.

and i have list with my two audio cards :

1. onboard - Realtek High Definition audio

and

2. dedicated Asus xonar DG audio device.

When selecting option 1. i have spatial sound dolby atmos option, but when selecting option 2, i have listed only "none" under spatial sound.

I can confirm that i had spatial sound on previous win10 build

For this part:

• From the Start menu, type in Device Manager, then Enter.
• Then click the Sound, video and game controllers driver.
• Look for Dolby Atmos, then right click on it, then click Unintall.
• Once done, remove your Dolby Atmos device and restart you computer.

i dont have dolby atmos under sound, video and game controllers