Latest Realtek HD Audio Driver Version

DooGie · 30 Nov 2017

IntelliMoo said:

Anyhoo, I feel 8308 is the new superior driver king to my ears. The vocal clarity, audio distinction, and bass are back big time and never sounded better as far as I remember.

Yes IntelliMoo they are good drivers, sound is evenly balanced with bass not overpowering and treble detailed but not harsh.

The last few releases have been of a high standard, how long before the bubble bursts :)

fdegrove · 30 Nov 2017

Hi,

The last few releases have been of a high standard, how long before the bubble bursts :)

Well, we do not "have to" upgrade these RT drivers once we found a set we truly like, right ?

Cheers,

PS: Still have to dl and install though.

DooGie · 30 Nov 2017

fdegrove said:

Hi,

Well, we do not "have to" upgrade these RT drivers once we found a set we truly like, right ?

Cheers,

PS: Still have to dl and install though.

That's always the problem fdegrove, we always have to try the latest ones out, Most times we find we are missing nothing and go back to our favourite build but there's always the chance we could be missing out on that one magic sounding upgrade.

I've always got 8279 stored away in my driver archive though :)

fdegrove · 30 Nov 2017

Hi,

I've always got 8279 stored away in my driver archive though :)

Likewise here. Great minds and all that.....

Cheers,

asturias7 · 30 Nov 2017

My 2 cents re 8308:
I am keeping this update since, to my ears, music (in particular) sounds the way I want it to sound.
All instruments are defined, bass and treble are at the right levels.

Warkratos · 30 Nov 2017

Can't get equalizer to work with my Gigabyte B150M-GAMING mobo, nothing works with these drivers, I'm using a driver from realtek's page R2.81 , even 2.82 doesn't work.

jrolson · 30 Nov 2017

Agreed, 8308 sound very nice to my ears!

Quexos · 30 Nov 2017

My old favorite 8228 ~ 8308. Control panel and all settings appear and work as expected.
Moving to 8308 because...why not.

PSA Edit: I got curious if these "WIN10 Anniversary" version drivers would work on good old Windows 7 Pro x64. They do! Perfectly.

s0urce · 30 Nov 2017

Anyone here uses the built-in equalizer on Realtek HD Audio Manager? If so, would like to know which settings you guys use, so i can try and play with different ones as well

fleks · 30 Nov 2017

s0urce said:

Anyone here uses the built-in equalizer on Realtek HD Audio Manager? If so, would like to know which settings you guys use, so i can try and play with different ones as well

where do you change the equalizer settings even?
i have some problem that google chrome and other stuff always gets put to maximum volume when starting the program again,so i guess thats maybe caused by that? because on my other machine with the same driver it works fine.