Anyone got a fix or a workaround for this? The switching system has been unreliable for years but currently it appears to do absolutely nothing. I used to be able to switch to any other setting then back to System sound (the one I wanted to use) and that worked. Now nothing whatsoever will make the game change output device.
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Sound switching not working after patch. As you said, before it was unreliable now completely broken.
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Same issue here since the morning(28th October), after the little update, I can’t change the output sound without restarting the game (to take effect). Well done devs! Excellent 
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Same for me, before patch i could change audio device in game. Now it’s not working at all.
Yeah i’ve been having the same issues since the patch launched, hoping theres a fix or workaround soon
Same issue here, only way to get it to switch is to fully restart the game. Far from ideal
“glad” to see im not the only one noticing this.
But like some people already have said a reboot of the game “fixes” this.
Was about to make a new topic about this, until I saw this topic recommended to me. Seems it’s a common issue.
So yeah, changing audio output devices no longer works and requires a restart. Blizz, please fix. 
I also have this issue and on top of that if I switch my default audio output device on windows the games just ignores it and stays on the previous device.
Same issue
Changing audio device has been busted on beta since the start.
Same issue here. Super annoying having to close the game each time i want to switch from speakers to headset.
Fix it devs!!!
My audio output just isn’t changing at all now. I opened the game, swapped it to my speakers, closed and relaunched the game and its still coming through my headset.
Still no acknowledgement or reply to ANY of the threads reporting this issue.
I thought it was just me. When my online friends are around I use my earphones. However as soon as they go off I like the game sounds through my tv. It’s so annoying having to relog everytime a friend shows up.
I reported it in a bug report 2 weeks ago, Still not fixed.
Bumping this
They managed to mess up the workaround macro as well… yesterday if I ran /run Sound_GameSystem_RestartSoundSystem() macro after switching the output device it would swap to the selected device now it does nothing, fml…
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