nvidia 460gtx and audio passthrough

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I just bought a asus eng460tx video card without putting too much thought into what connectors were on the back. Ends up that it has 2 DVI and 1 display port, not sure I understand the reason for not putting a hdmi.
Anyways my previous card was a radeon 5450 and I was using the hdmi out to pass both audio and video to my denon A/V receiver. Now i'm stuck with this card that only has DVI with a hdmi adapter.

Is there ANY way to pass audio over the dvi/hdmi combo to my receiver?
I get windows sounds to work under the playback devices but no sound in games. Also my on screen display no longer works for my receiver either. Any way I will be able to get this working and be able to bitstream THD and DTSMA through the DVI or should I just scrap the card and start over.
 
DVI doesn't transport audio. And Receiver don't like HDMI to DVI adaptor. I saw A LOT of people having problems with those and iwth HDMI to DVI cables with computers and other device. I suggest into looking for another model. I own 2 460 is SLI (gigabyte) with HDMI and audio work perfectly for Bluray and game audio..
 
Ya, it is kind of working but not as nicely as my 5450 was. For example street fighter 4 was giving me no audio, but as soon as I switched the in game resolution to 1920x1080 the sound turned on. So I guess it is possible to pass audio on a dvi (I read somewhere that it is possible using the analog pins?), but it doesn't work like it should.
 
I have a gtx280 connected to my Samsung PN58C7000 TV via a HDMI cable using a dvi->hdmi converter which is connected to the dvi output of the gtx280.. I am able to run sound and video over it. I had to plug the spdif cable into my mobo and enable it in the bios though.
 
well i'm a giant idiot, the third connector on the asus card is a mini hdmi, not a display port like I previously thought.
 
Ryoohki360 said:
DVI doesn't transport audio. And Receiver don't like HDMI to DVI adaptor. I saw A LOT of people having problems with those and iwth HDMI to DVI cables with computers and other device. I suggest into looking for another model. I own 2 460 is SLI (gigabyte) with HDMI and audio work perfectly for Bluray and game audio..
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I can confirm that DVI to HDMI transport audio. So what's the point of the HDMI to HDMI?
 
I don't think the dvi will do bitstreaming. When I tried playing a dtsma movie I got errors that the output device does not support the sample/bitrate. Worked perfect on my 5450 on the hdmi.

Also, using dvi i would not get any sounds in games until I switched to 1920x1080.

Also watching regular dts or dd movies the receiver does not recognize the format, it just shows multi channel in.

All these little things become very annoying, i personally would not be able to live with it. I'm still waiting on a mini hdmi -> hdmi adapter. Hopefully that fixes all the issues and it works as smoothly as the 5450 did.
 
switched to the hdmi and it solved all the issues. My receiver now shows the proper audio format, audio works in games at any resolution and best of all dolby thd and dtsma now work.
 
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