After using FxSound for a few weeks and finding it useful for some music when listening on headphones, it stopped working. I want to be able to enable FxSound for headphone listening (only), and also be able to turn it on and off without it affecting my speaker settings. I recently upgraded to Windows 11 before the installation. What should I do?
FxSound will function as desired, easily. Please clarify a couple of things.
FxSound was not present on a PC which was upgraded to Windows 11 and then FxSound was installed and it worked, perhaps not as desired but it did work, and then it stopped working.
Is that accurate?
Yes. I disabled it for my computer’s speakers because the processing is too intense, and I didn’t want to risk any damage to the speakers, as the FxSound was responding to all system sounds. I only want to use it for headphone listening, and only for some music listening, so I need to be able to turn it on and off at will. However, now, I can’t get it to come back on. I tried to click on (run as an administrator) as it allowed me to use it the first time after installing the app, but now it won’t work at all. I do have Dolby Headphone processing that I leave on all the time, and sometimes I would like to use FxSound in tandem with the Dolby processing app.
Default feature installed. See systray icon context menu, Turn Off
Restart PC. Describe app status. The conditions under which the software was installed are not best practice as described. Please clarify. Was Windows 10 installed on this machine and a Windows 11 upgrade was applied?
Just being an OEM Windows 10 machine running 11 may be problematic. Please examine Device Manager. Are there any splats? Are there any “corrected” or forced driver installs?
’Run as Admin’ is a permissions thing and does not address hardware issues. The hardware layer boots before any user (sic).
System sounds included with Windows will not damage your speakers. Signal is signal not power. Over-driving power to the coils will damage your speakers. If the music is OK, the system sound wav file is OK.
I cannot assist you with Dolby. I am blind with science. I cannot assist you further with this problem until you clarify “can’t get it to come back on”. Be detailed.
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System sounds included with Windows, along with the FxSound processing, will definitely damage speaker cones. Even with the volume set at around 11 percent, I can hear the system’s sounds in the bass frequencies distorting. The system sounds already are too bassy to begin with, and I am talking about my computer’s built-in speakers, which are tiny. I only want to hear the system sounds as low as possible, and with no additional processing from the FxSound app.
This was originally a Windows 10 computer, before I upgraded to Windows 11 earlier this month, in October. I have noticed a lag in processing commands using Windows 11, compared to Windows 10, which is most noticeable with photo files. Bottom line, I just want to use the FxSound with headphones only, and be able to turn it on and off at will.
This shouldn’t be a problem… You can set the audio driver to automatically change when a headphone is plugged in. Then you can set FxSound to use that driver. However, if you want the same driver for general audio and headphones, there’s no other way than manually turn the software on/off while listening to music.
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