Sound Properties under Realtek Drivers Missing Enhancement Tab

Post the driver version you have installed leis. As already stated before, UAD drivers do not have that feature. Your MB mfg is going to be whom updates their version of that driver.

“Must update Nahimic 3 in Microsoft store after updating Realtek HD Universal Driver.
Recommend installing this driver for Windows 10 RS3 or later versions.”

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erpster4 said:

I think you can direct your complaints to MSI for removing or blocking the Realtek EQ & environment effects for most of their modern gaming boards & laptops like your B450 gaming board when installing recent HDA (nonUAD) drivers. next motherboard purchase that you get better not be an MSI brand board, Quexos.

I think you are absolutely correct. That said, when I built this Ryzen setup, I did buy a Gigabyte X370 board. It was trash. Memory timings were bad, had to run PC3000 at 2100 and it failed to POST constantly, and several other major problems I hardly remember the details now. My previous Gigabyte 970a board was also pretty flaky with problems with IOMMU and Linux. So MSI had the best alternative overall. I like it much better than the Gigabyte with the exception of the Nahimic dependency.

@sandyt About Nahimic. I know I don't have to turn on all the effects, and yes I am saying Realtek's default effects are simply better. The only effect I actually use occasionally is Loudness for videos that are crazy quiet in places. Also Nahimic is a buggy mess for a lot of people. Causes all sorts of problem, even game crashes. I refuse to install it at all. Why force third party junk when the same features already exist in the driver by default...if you don't block them.

It's all just marketing mumbo jumbo from MSI trying to convince us that their boards have some Ultra High End 'gamery' audio that others dont instead of what it actually is...just a simple, plain old Realtek Codec.

Like all this crap from the description of my main board. Audio Boost? It doesn't exist. It's just the blanket name they give a Realtek chip with buggy third party Nahimic hijacking (but adding absolutley nothing new except a disgusting 'gamery' graphical ui) the good old trusty Realtek driver.

"Get the most immersive sound experience when gaming. MSI Audio Boost delivers the highest sound quality through the use of premium quality audio components. This lets you enjoy breathtaking, game-changing sound to create the most exciting gameplay.

Built on years of experience in building motherboards dedicated to giving gamers true Hi-Fi sound. Audio Boost has developed into a high quality audio unit, offering a clear advantage over your opponents when gaming. Locate your enemies with your eyes closed using Audio Boost"

Gamers are maxing their systems capabilities by streaming their games. So you are talking about gamers playing multi-player games on the internet, 7.1 headphone virtualization so they can shoot at the direction of the sound of the people's movement, and a headset microphone talking to their friends --- all the while they are broadcasting their games. That's why their nahimic is crashing.

But you are not using it for games for some bleeding edge game broadcasting/7.1 headphone virtualization/voip teamchatting, so the chances of nahimic crashing on you is not going to be high.

Dynamic range compression for watching movies have been around for a long time --- I highly doubt that algorithms have been changed at all for the last 10 years.

You are using old and unpatched drivers --- so that just evens out the crashing probabilities.

You are just creating problems for yourself --- even buying a discrete sound card that didn't work out. All the while a simple solution would be just try the new drivers with nahimic.