ASIO | Headphones Audio Problem and Fix

I just encountered an issue on my new desktop, where I was not able to play the audio from my Digital Audio Workstation to my headphones. Instead they would output to my desktop speakers. I would much rather like to listen to my headphones and not through my desktop speakers. You are probably thinking this is an easy fix. It is, but I would just like to inform everybody else who may be encountering this problem in the future

At first I didn't have the option to select my headphones from Outputs.



So what you need to do is open up "Asio Configuration" in your DAW Preferences. On the left side it should say "WDM Device List". At first only the speaker was enabled. You must enable everything under that list including "HD Audio Headphone". This will enable the use of headphones when the ASIO driver is running.

Once you enable it, exit the Configuration window. At this point you still have ASIO4ALL as your active driver. Switch to a different driver and then go back to ASIO4ALL and your settings should update and it should look like this:




That's about it. Hope this helps anyone who had the same problem as me.