Latest Realtek HD Audio Driver Version

the only thing i dont get why realtek isnt updating there website did they abandon there drivers ?

Think so , coz latest is from 2017 , faaaar away.............

Soxa said:

Strange 8560 sounds better on my system

Sounds fine for me as well.

Soxa said:

the only thing i dont get why realtek isnt updating there website did they abandon there drivers ?

pietcorus2 said:

Think so , coz latest is from 2017 , faaaar away.............

not really folks. the R2.82 (8186) driver from Realtek web site is for older systems made before mid-2017.
Realtek only released newer drivers after 2017 (both traditional HDA and newer UAD ones) to motherboard makers & PC/OEM manufacturers (and sometimes thru MUC). so far, no new HDA nonUAD drivers from MS Update Catalog since 8544 - only 8549, 8551 & 8558 UAD drivers are available from MUC but not the HDA ones.

8560 UAD (not HDA) works fine for my Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 R2 board running Win10 v1803 (I'm not updating it to v1809 due to a bunch of problems with that version). all my other machines still use 8551 HDA (nonUAD) and will update these when 8570 or higher comes out.

Ohoho said:

How did You do that? I can't even install this 8558, because at beggining of installation im receiving error message "no driver was supported in this driver package"
My motherboard is MSI X470 GAMING PRO CARBON which use ALC1220 + nahimic

Pretty sure these guys are all using stuff for older gear, I too haven't found anything that works with ALC1220

Globespy said:

Pretty sure these guys are all using stuff for older gear, I too haven't found anything that works with ALC1220

try 8560 driver HDA cause UAD doesnt work for me either i have an older motherboard z170 pro gaming

seems to be issues with new version of asus sonic studio from windows store.

it updated and nahimicsvc32.exe started crashing repealty and was passing debug dmp file location to clipboard causing clipboard to be useless. because I couldnt copy and past anything in docs/notepade because it would pass the dmp file location to docs instead.

I was using august nahimic drivers from windows catalog
I had to switch to july version instead the crashes and clipboard issue went away.

I posted this in case someone else is having this issue.

Soxa said:

the only thing i dont get why realtek isnt updating there website did they abandon there drivers ?

pietcorus2 said:

Think so , coz latest is from 2017 , faaaar away.............

a little history lesson for you Soxa & pietcorus2: there was a time when Realtek took almost 1 & 1/2 years (almost 18 months) between releasing certain general all-purpose HDA drivers on their web site. take for instance v6.0.1.7541 (R2.79) and v6.0.1.8004 (R2.80). the "R2.79" version was released near the end of June 2015 and the "R2.80" version was released in early December 2016. I remember all of this.

Unrelated note: for those using certain Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 3 laptops, here is the customized v6.0.1.8551 HDA/SST (non-UAD) driver with Dolby DAX3 software from the Lenovo web site, which fixes a certain APO crash with the Realtek audio driver, mentioned in its release notes.

erpster4 said:

a little history lesson for you Soxa & pietcorus2: there was a time when Realtek took almost 1 & 1/2 years (almost 18 months) between releasing certain general all-purpose HDA drivers on their web site. take for instance v6.0.1.7541 (R2.79) and v6.0.1.8004 (R2.80). the "R2.79" version was released near the end of June 2015 and the "R2.80" version was released in early December 2016. I remember all of this.

Unrelated note: for those using certain Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 3 laptops, here is the customized v6.0.1.8551 HDA/SST (non-UAD) driver with Dolby DAX3 software from the Lenovo web site, which fixes a certain APO crash with the Realtek audio driver, mentioned in its release notes.

@Erpster : tbh i dont know about all that, it was question and i was wondering why