Audio is an important factor in shaping your gaming experience. It doesn’t matter whether you are a pro or noob. You definitely require to hear the sounds of the game to be able to properly play it. However, if there are problems with the audio driver, then you won’t be able to hear the sound. Today, I will explain how to fix the Nvidia Virtual Audio Device issue.
You can try to uninstall and reinstall the driver. Also, you can try to integrate the GeForce Experience application into the Nvidia GPU. I have explained both of these methods in this guide and how you should do it. Keep following this article to know more about that.
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We will start with uninstalling the Nvidia driver from the PC. To do it we have to boot the computer using the safe boot.
Uninstalling the Nvidia Driver
- Open the run application dialog box by pressing Windows + R key
- type msconfig > click OK
- Then in the System Configuration dialog box that opens click on the second tab Boot
- Click the checkbox Safe Boot
- From the options with radio buttons click on Minimal
- Now restart your PC and it will boot with Safe Mode.
- Go to This PC > Local Disk (C) > navigate to Nvidia folder
- Delete the Nvidia folder
- Again press Windows + R to open the run dialog box
- type devmgmt. msc and hit enter
- From the list of connected devices click on Uninstall
- Restart your PC.
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Reinstalling the Nvidia Driver
To fix the Nvidia virtual audio device, you need to reinstall the driver. In the previous section, we uninstalled the driver. Now, we will reinstall the driver.