Latest Realtek HD Audio Driver Version


  1. Posts : 270
    WIN10
       #2131

    Guitarmageddon said:
    Does nahimic contribute to sound quality in any way, or is more of an enabler for the fancy gamer stuff asus includes?
    My personal opinion here, but I find Nahimic to be absolute trash. Just some gimmicky artificial sounding effects that are not even as good as the ones that used to come default with the Realtek driver...but worse, it is just a separate, third party bloatware, that has to run in the background even when not in use.

    What pisses me off to no end is that my MSI B450 board refuses to give me a fully functional default Realtek driver that includes the "Enhancements" tab with effects like "Loudness Equalization" on any of the newer drivers because it appears they have hard coded Nahimic in as a dependency for that and strip it out of the driver. So all I get is this...



    The last good, fully working driver for me is 6.0.1.8228 (still one of the best sounding too), which gives me this (notice the additional enhancements tab and actual effects rather than "launch Nahimic nonsense" which is not even installed)...

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  2. Posts : 1
    Windows 10 64bit
       #2132

    Asus ROG Strix X470 board

    I installed the driver below which was supposed to have Nahimic.
    - Realtek HD Audio Drivers (UAD - ASUS Nahimic + Sonic Studio III integration) - Last version [05/03/2019] :
    ----Drivers : 6.0.1.8648 WHQL
    ----SS3 Extension Drivers : 1.1.7.56670 WHQL
    ----NH3/SS3 APO SoftwareComponent Drivers : 1.3.0.0 WHQL
    ----Download : https://mega.nz/#!hdcXGAZb!53C74NqV9...STPujKTzJUGONw

    However - it doesn't look like it does following this procedure.
    Determine the HDA Realtek driver needed for your Audio - Windows 10 Forums

    The Hardware ID of the Audio device is: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_1168&SUBSYS_10438723&REV_1001
    The Audio CODEC is : ALC1168
    The Audio device uses Realtek Audio driver version 6.0.1.8648 with no integration (Generic)
    The HDA driver needed for this Audio device is FF00

    Am I supposed to have Nahimic installed?
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails Latest Realtek HD Audio Driver Version-45a4178c-3a58-4d44-9451-a69aa283bed1-.png.jpg  
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  3. Posts : 27,162
    Win11 Pro, Win10 Pro N, Win10 Home, Windows 8.1 Pro, Ubuntu
       #2133

    phamine said:

    Am I supposed to have Nahimic installed?
    To see if Nahimic is installed go to C:\Windows\System32 and look for A-Volute at the top.

    Latest Realtek HD Audio Driver Version-image-001.png

    Also check here: C:\ProgramData\A-Volute
    Latest Realtek HD Audio Driver Version-image.png
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  4. Posts : 2,450
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #2134

    phamine said:
    Asus ROG Strix X470 board

    I installed the driver below which was supposed to have Nahimic.
    - Realtek HD Audio Drivers (UAD - ASUS Nahimic + Sonic Studio III integration) - Last version [05/03/2019] :
    ----Drivers : 6.0.1.8648 WHQL
    ----SS3 Extension Drivers : 1.1.7.56670 WHQL
    ----NH3/SS3 APO SoftwareComponent Drivers : 1.3.0.0 WHQL
    ----Download : https://mega.nz/#!hdcXGAZb!53C74NqV9...STPujKTzJUGONw

    However - it doesn't look like it does following this procedure.
    Determine the HDA Realtek driver needed for your Audio - Windows 10 Forums

    The Hardware ID of the Audio device is: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_1168&SUBSYS_10438723&REV_1001
    The Audio CODEC is : ALC1168
    The Audio device uses Realtek Audio driver version 6.0.1.8648 with no integration (Generic)
    The HDA driver needed for this Audio device is FF00

    Am I supposed to have Nahimic installed?
    Hi and welcome to TenForums

    The Determine the HDA Realtek driver needed for your Audio - Windows 10 Forums PowerShell script is checking for HDA Realtek drivers. From your description you have installed UAD driver. So the script will not help you.
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  5. Posts : 1,961
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #2135

    Always update my Realtek with UAD Nahimic , in Win10, goes perfectly everytime.
    But I cant find the folder A-Volute..........
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  6. Posts : 27,162
    Win11 Pro, Win10 Pro N, Win10 Home, Windows 8.1 Pro, Ubuntu
       #2136

    pietcorus2 said:
    Always update my Realtek with UAD Nahimic , in Win10, goes perfectly everytime.
    But I cant find the folder A-Volute..........
    I think your motherboard isn't a ROG board, so you might not have it.
    A-Volute is the company that develops the Nahimic software, but ROG owners also get Sonic Suite 3 which uses the Nahimic technology to full capacity, and regular ASUS boards don't.
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  7. Posts : 1,961
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #2137

    Right......Im on Z97-K Asus......
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  8. Posts : 1,935
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
       #2138

    Cliff S said:
    I think your motherboard isn't a ROG board, so you might not have it.
    A-Volute is the company that develops the Nahimic software, but ROG owners also get Sonic Suite 3 which uses the Nahimic technology to full capacity, and regular ASUS boards don't.
    also A-volute made the alienware sound center app for certain models of Dell Alienware laptops

    pietcorus2 said:
    Right......Im on Z97-K Asus......
    which version of Z97-K? there are at least 3 versions of that board; the other ones are Z97-K R2.0 and Z97-K/USB3.1 (w/ USB 3.1 ports)
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  9. Posts : 2,324
    Win10
       #2139

    pietcorus2 said:
    Right......Im on Z97-K Asus......
    I think there are 2 or 3 versions of Nahmic depending on age of the Board and also Sonic Studio , sonic Studio 2 works with my Asus X99A-II but only with the Driver it comes with from Asus , none of these latest Drivers , DTS Studio doesn't work with the Latest Drivers Either actually.
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  10. Posts : 1,961
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #2140

    Z97-K/USB3.1 (w/ USB 3.1 ports)
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