Vista - Latest Realtek HD Audio Driver Version

you said ur front panel doesnt work, but it works with an old version of the driver... i fail to see the problem. if it works with that "old version" then why are you going so hard on using the latest version? realtek doesnt cares if the new one doesnt works(they will send you to sapphire), sapphire doesnt cares either (they will give you the last driver they had, or something else) nobody else cares about you bawing about realtek.
seat tight, use the driver that works and shut up. let other ppl with real problems baw here.

this is the exactly same problem i have with my nvidia card, if i use the latest nvidia drivers, the "factory" overcloking from msi will disapear... do you see me bawing at nvidia or even bawing at msi for new drivers? the ones i have works.. simple.

Ok Ferjero989 and Dark Radeon, lets calm it down.

Shawn

im just saying, its dumb to baw about new drivers not working (specially bawing at the chip manufacter) if old ones works, and the motherboard wasnt made by realtek. the chip is there.. but everything else is sapphire.. would you baw at samsung about their dvd drive inside the xbox?

For your GPU you can simply modify the GPU BIOS to set the factory overclocking settings (or you can use rivatuner... I don't remember if rivatuner can write on the GPU BIOS)... with my RADEON 3870 I don't need to modify the GPU BIOS: only after the first boot of Windows I installed the ATI drivers and the CCC and I set my overclocking settings. At every upgrade of the GPU drivers the overclocking settings remain..

I have an issue with the Realtek drivers, you have only a unavailing overclocking problem that you can resole easily and keeping the drivers up-to-date.

I'm calm O___O

PS: happy new yeart from Italy... It's late here... I going to sleep now.

THX to Good (or Satan if u want... I'm unbelieving ^_^) I don't have an X360 ^_^

PS: in this case it was Microsoft's gilt ^_^ (Microsft known those problems and they say and made nothing.)

PPS: I think u don't have clear the different between an hardware/BIOS/Firmware issues and a software/driver issue.

well as far as i know.. if its a hardware problem.. it will never work. if its a software work.. maybe another software will work.. in your case you already have the solution, and old version works.. use it and move on.

The 2.14 driver is up as of 1/9.

Thank you SubZero. The first post has been updated for more details.

hello
is for me an alc889a soundcard and Windows 7, Windows vista
my problemem when the rear speaker (stereo sound -> MP3,wma...) does not sound well
it 5.1 good, but the stereo not good
not clone down the front speaker in to rear speaker (sorround)
we the problem ?????
please help mee
thank you

R2.14 = no change for ALC880 front panel output issue .-.

The funniest is that ALC880 model had never been supported officially by Realtek under Windows Vista accordint to the REadme -.-

Just a question.. Is it worth upgrading to newest drivers every time they come out? I am pretty particular about making sure I have the newest drivers always updated, but I noticed once in a while, the Realtek drivers will cause a popping sound when I lower and raise the volume, and sometimes in game.

Ill generally have to revert back to the prior drivers to fix this.

They do release updates a LOT, just wondering your thoughts on this.