Simultaneous HDMI and speaker playback

Hello!
While you may think this is the USUAL problem, it is not. I know how to enable Stereo Mix, and it is enabled. I know how to set Stereo Mix as a recording device, and to have the "Listen" tab show the HDMI.
I know all of this, because this is the setup that worked perfectly until I turned on my computer today.
Suddenly, I have visible output on the Stereo Mix channel, and "testing" the HDMI yields sound, but there is no functioning bridge between the two. I can NOT, under any setting, get the Stereo Mix to output to the HDMI despite this workaround working
for the last several months.
I don't know what to do and I've run out of patience reading outdated solutions. I'm on Windows 8.1 using Realtek drivers.

Hi Matt,
You may roll back the related driver through Device Manager:
1. Open Device Manager by Win +X, then select Device Manager;
2. Double-click the category containing your device driver, and then double-click the name of the device that you want to restore to a previous driver version.
3. Click the Driver tab, and then click Roll Back Driver.
If you are logged on as a standard user, the button will be dimmed, which means it's unavailable. You must be logged on as an administrator to roll back a driver.
Note: If there's no previous version of the driver installed for the selected device, the
Roll Back Driver button will be unavailable even if you are logged on as an administrator.
Reference:
Restore a driver to its previous version
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null
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pcm.dmixer {
type dmix
slave {
pcm "hw:0,3"
rate 44100
pcm.!default {
type hw
card 1
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0 snd_hda_intel
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null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
PulseAudio Sound Server
hdmi:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
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sysdefault:CARD=SB
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HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
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surround41:CARD=SB,DEV=0
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4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=SB,DEV=0
HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
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surround51:CARD=SB,DEV=0
HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Analog
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
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7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=SB,DEV=0
HDA ATI SB, ALC892 Digital
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
Output of "aplay -l":
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
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