VLC Media Player not working on Windows 11

[CaptainKirkSon]

VLC Player has been one of the most compulsory software titles on any compute I have had for over 10 years, but now on Windows 11 (Home 64-Bit Ver. 23H2 OS Build 22631.2861) isn't playing ANY audio or video file I have. I have updated to the most current version, and even scoured the internet to find a fix - but nothing.
It will open the file, show the length of the MP3 or Video file, but not move from 00:00 and present a black screen. No movement on the progression bar, no audio, no picture, nothing! I cannot quit the program without having to go Task Manager to force close it with End Task
I have:

• Disabled Hardware Acceleration
• Change Network Caching to 1500ms and File Caching to 2000ms
• Change Default Video Output to DirectX (DirectDraw)
• Reset Preferences
• Even gone down a version from VLC 3.0.20 to 3.0.9.2

Computer Specs:

• Windows 11 OS mentioned above is completely up to date
• AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core Processor at 3.70 GHz
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB

SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!

[Lotesdelere]

Please open Tools -> Messages (set Verbosity to 2) before you start the playback, and then paste the full resulting log here or on Pastebin.com or on Justpaste.it if it's too long.

[CaptainKirkSon]

This is basically what it said - but on repeat (I have a screenshot if you would like that)

mmdevice debug: using default device
mmdevice debug: version 2 session control unavailable
mmdevice debug: volume from -96.000000 dB to +0.000000 dB with 1.500000 dB increments
main debug: looking for aout stream module matching "any": 2 candidates
wasapi error: cannot activate client (error 0x88890004)
main debug: no aout stream modules matched
mmdevice debug: using default device
mmdevice debug: version 2 session control unavailable
mmdevice debug: volume from -96.000000 dB to +0.000000 dB with 1.500000 dB increments
main debug: looking for aout stream module matching "any": 2 candidates
wasapi error: cannot activate client (error 0x88890004)
main debug: no aout stream modules matched
mmdevice debug: using default device
mmdevice debug: version 2 session control unavailable
mmdevice debug: volume from -96.000000 dB to +0.000000 dB with 1.500000 dB increments
main debug: looking for aout stream module matching "any": 2 candidates
wasapi error: cannot activate client (error 0x88890004)
main debug: no aout stream modules matched
mmdevice debug: using default device
mmdevice debug: version 2 session control unavailable
mmdevice debug: volume from -96.000000 dB to +0.000000 dB with 1.500000 dB increments
main debug: looking for aout stream module matching "any": 2 candidates
wasapi error: cannot activate client (error 0x88890004)
main debug: no aout stream modules matched

[Lotesdelere]

Try another audio output module:
http://wiki.videolan.org/WindowsFAQ-2.0 ... _anomalies

[CaptainKirkSon]

Thank you to everyone's suggestions. I was suggested on another forum, to roll back my GPU driver to the previous version, and this has resolved the matter entirely. I have also sent the feedback to Nvidia, but it looked like that was the issue!