Latest Realtek HD Audio Driver Version

[Brink]

Re: New Realtek HD Audio Driver Released

Andypaws,

Well, that's some good news. In that same area, make sure that Swap Center / Subwoofer Output is unchecked. You may have to try having Enable Bass Management checked and unchecked to see what difference it may make.

Shawn

 

[andypaws]

Re: New Realtek HD Audio Driver Released

Regretfully I have no Swap Centre / Subwoofer Output or Enable Bass Management check boxes. Looks like I am out of luck!!

Sound is important to me. If it worth upgrading to a decent Vista sound card or am I likely you just compound the problem?

Thanks again.

 

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Re: New Realtek HD Audio Driver Released

Andypaws,

Are you looking in the Realtek HD Audio Manager in the Control Panel (Classic View) ? See screenshot below. I boxed it it red.

Shawn

 

[andypaws]

Re: New Realtek HD Audio Driver Released

WOW! I have nothing like this!! In Control Panel (Classic View), the only audio related icon I have is titled "Sound" (picture of a speaker). The associated dialogue boxes are very limited in the choices they offer.

Sounds like I have some software missing - is that correct?

Thanks for your help.

 

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Re: New Realtek HD Audio Driver Released

Andypaws,

Haha, I would say that you did.

You may have only installed the Realtek HD Audio drivers once. You need to install them twice. Once to remove the old driver, and second to actually install the newer driver. You will have to restart Vista after each install of the driver. Make sure that you install the driver from a Administrator account.

After this, you should see the Realtek HD Audio Manager icon in the Control Panel (Classic View).



Shawn

 

[andypaws]

Re: New Realtek HD Audio Driver Released

Right! Have reinstalled as directed and now have the Realtek HD Audio Manager in Control Panel. Results of playing with the Enable Bass and Speaker Fill options as follows:

Enable Bass Unchecked, Speaker Fill Unchecked = All speakers except Sub Woofer.

Enable Bass Checked, Speaker Fill Checked = All speakers including Sub Woofer.

So, not sure if it is true 5.1 or some compromise but for the first time under Vista, I have x6 working speakers!!

Thanks very much for your help.

 

[Brink]

Re: New Realtek HD Audio Driver Released

Your welcome Andypaws.

Glad to hear that you have them working. Just play around with the speaker settings to see what sounds best to you.

Shawn

 

[infenit101]

Re: New Realtek HD Audio Driver Released

I am having a problem using the speaker fill option. I have a gigabyte ga-g33m-s2h motherboard and it I have updated to the newest realtek drivers. Unfortunately when I go to the tray to change my settings (the little red speaker icon) instead of seeing a realtek badge in the lower left corner of the HD Audio manager I see a gigabyte badge. And I do not see a an option to use speaker fill.

All I see is swap/center sub/output and under that bass management.
Can someone please help me? Any help is appreciated.

 

[Brink]

Re: New Realtek HD Audio Driver Released

Hi Infenit101,

Welcome to the forum.

You probably see the Gigabyte logo on the Audio Manager if you downloaded the Realtek audio driver from Gigabyte's website instead of Realtek's. You might try the driver from Realtek to see if it will work better.

http://www.gigabyte.us/Support/Motherboard/Driver_Model.aspx?ProductID=2561


Realtek High Definition Audio Codecs: Driver Download Site


Shawn

 

[infenit101]

Re: New Realtek HD Audio Driver Released

I downloaded the driver from the Realtek website. I'm thinking about just doing another 'sigh' clean install. IF you have any other ideas let me know.

 

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Re: New Realtek HD Audio Driver Released

Infenit101,

Did you install the Realtek driver twice and restart the computer for each install?

If you did, you might try going back to the driver from Gigabyte's website. It has the same version number.

Shawn

 

[infenit101]

Re: New Realtek HD Audio Driver Released

Yeah I tried both those methods. I used both Gigabytes and realteks drivers to no avail. And for some reason when I install the realtek drivers I end up seeing that same Gigabyte badge. I don't know what the deal is. Maybe it has something to do with Vista's insistence on installing preconfigured drivers.

 

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Re: New Realtek HD Audio Driver Released

Infenit101,

If you have audio, I do not know what else to say except to double check all the settings for something you may have missed.

Hopefully a clean install will do the trick for you. Let us know how it went please.

Sorry,
Shawn

 

[infenit101]

Re: New Realtek HD Audio Driver Released

@Brink

I did the clean install and nothing happened. Same thing. I used the lastest drivers and I still end up with a Gigabyte badge in the left and no speaker fill option. It may be that the realtek drivers detect that I am using a gigabyte motherboard. I don't know but this is how my HD manager looks like.

[media]http://ggts.gigabyte.com.tw/ClientUserFile/OK/532722/Gigabyte_Problem.jpg[/media]


Oh and how come everytime I post I get a server error. I am having to use a proxy just to get through...I just started posting here...

 

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Re: New Realtek HD Audio Driver Released

Infenit101,

It appears you just do not have a Speaker fill option for yours.

Since Realtek uses the same driver package for all their HD Audio devices, the Gigabyte is probably included in it. Are you getting sound from your speakers?

Oh and how come everytime I post I get a server error. I am having to use a proxy just to get through...I just started posting here...

Not sure, I seem to not be having any problems. Try using the IP address link for the site to see if that helps.

http://74.53.55.50/

Shawn

 

[infenit101]

Re: New Realtek HD Audio Driver Released

I appreciate all your help Brink. I am going to contact CS for Gigabyte and see what they have to say. Meanwhile I am going to be trying to get FFDShow to output my sound through all the speakers instead of just 2. Again, thanks a lot. I am liking the community already.

 

[Brink]

Re: New Realtek HD Audio Driver Released

Your welcome Infenit101,

Glad you like it here. Hope it gets resolved soon.

Shawn

 

[mynameis]

Re: New Realtek HD Audio Driver Released

MyNameIs,

You might try performing a Repair Install to see if this will clear the problem up. If not, you may need to stick with the original sound driver, that has no problems, until they update either the video or audio driver without any problems.

How to Perform a Repair Installation for Vista

Shawn

I dont think I will be able to do a repair install, as my disc is an OEM version

 

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Re: New Realtek HD Audio Driver Released

MyNameIs,

If the OEM disc is a Express installation DVD, then you will be able to.

If it is just a plain recovery disc, a clone of the hard drive, then all you will be able to do is a reinstall.


Shawn

 

[skeevee]

Re: New Realtek HD Audio Driver Released

I just posted this in response to another thread, but this thread here is much newer, so I am hoping someone has the answer to my problem:

"I've got the same board and I did download the Realtek drivers which installed successfully and worked perfectly. Only after rebooting a few times, the driver all of a sudden disappeared. I tried to re-install which worked fine again for a few days until after doing it successfully 10 times, this time the driver install failed saying "No driver was supported in this package". I fiddled around for some time trying to update the driver from the device manager and all kinds of other stuff. Nothing worked.

Then on 11/8, Realtek release a new version of the driver, version 1.81. I downloaded it and voila, it installed fine and worked great, only that after a few reboots, the above repeated itself on this version of the driver.

Now I am without sounds again and I have no idea, how to force Vista to accept the Realtek driver instead of the MS one. Once installed, both drivers are called "High Definition Audio Device", but only the Realtek version has ever worked for me.

Thanks,
Skeevee"