Latest Realtek HD Audio Driver Version

asturias7 said:

Yes, it's up on GitHub with the various versions according to what you have on your system... Nahimic, Conexant, etc.

If anyone has tried 6.0.1.8668, give me your opinion(s). Gracias.


Btw, MUC (UAD) updates:
6.0.1.8659
6.0.1.8661

@asturias7 Alan Fox's UAD version on Ghithub contains DTS, has the ability to enable the dts function?

My opinion that the sound is not strong at a lower volume as in previous versions, the sound was stronger at a lower volume in previous versions!
I must specify that I use the connection through an optical cable between the reciver and the sound card.

hana0 said:

You should update if you have Windows 1809, somehow the drivers in MSI site not only old but buggy.

It is not locked, I have MSI with nahimic 2 and I updated, somehow my audio was much better.

If you have Nahimic 3 try this 6.0.1.8666

8666_UAD_WHQL_Nahimic_1300_2019_0329_133535.zip

Unfortunately 8668 is not uploaded yet

EDIT: Someone reported 8666 is not working, to be honest I didn't try it yet, I used Release Realtek High Definition Audio 6.0.1.8656 and it worked fine. Havn't update yet

If you have troubles with 8666, then try 8656_UAD_WHQL_Nahimic_1300_2019_0322_132753.zip

I've updated the drivers you recommended but somehow sound doesn't work. It doesn't give an error installing or anything, but after reboot it says that it doesn't recognize my card when i try to open an audio file. I rolled back to the HDA drivers and sound works again, but i cannot install nahimic 3 (says something about audio driver not compatible), only nahimic 2+...

bct said:

I've updated the drivers you recommended but somehow sound doesn't work. It doesn't give an error installing or anything, but after reboot it says that it doesn't recognize my card when i try to open an audio file. I rolled back to the HDA drivers and sound works again, but i cannot install nahimic 3 (says something about audio driver not compatible), only nahimic 2+...

I checked your laptop is old and support only Nahimic 2, not 3.

try this https://github.com/alanfox2000/realt..._Win7_WHQL.rar

Extract only the folder 8668_FF03_PG470_Win10_RS2_RS3_RS4_RS5_Win7_WHQL and install it, hopefully it will work

hana0 said:

I checked your laptop is old and support only Nahimic 2, not 3.

try this https://github.com/alanfox2000/realt..._Win7_WHQL.rar

Extract only the folder 8668_FF03_PG470_Win10_RS2_RS3_RS4_RS5_Win7_WHQL and install it, hopefully it will work

Old? Already? My laptop is just 2 years old! Things are evolving fast

That's the version i have installed now, and everything is working fine with only Nahimic 2+ (nahimic 3 gives the same error about incompatible driver lol).

Thank you for your help, really appreciate it

erpster4 said:

I'm sorry to say this adnage but the FF06 drivers are incompatible with your Latitude E7270 laptop.

You need the Dell customized Realtek HDA drivers like v6.0.1.6127 A12 (no other OEM/PC manufacturer has this special version; driver date is 10/01/2018) - though listed for Latitude E5270, E5470 & E5570 models; this one should work with the E7270; this driver pack includes HDXADCMA.inf, HDXADCMA6.inf & HDXADCMA7.inf files that no FF06 HDA driver pack can have & never included; only Realtek made this specialized version for Dell.

I did not get a chance to follow up on this since I had been upgrading some of my machines to LTSB/LTSC versions of Win10 this past weekend.

folks, this was one of the "special cases" (aka. exceptions to the rule) where OEM/PC manufacturer based Realtek HDA drivers must be used instead of using any FFxx based Realtek HDA audio driver, especially when using certain "business class" computers from Dell such as the Latitude, Precision or even the Optiplex series. If I were using a certain Dell computer from the "Optiplex" series like Optiplex 7450 (I'm using this as an example), I'd stick to using the customized Realtek audio drivers provided by Dell themselves and avoid using any FFxx HDA drivers.

bct said:

Old? Already? My laptop is just 2 years old! Things are evolving fast

That's the version i have installed now, and everything is working fine with only Nahimic 2+ (nahimic 3 gives the same error about incompatible driver lol).

Thank you for your help, really appreciate it

Mine is 1 year old and it is considered to be old by MSI.

You can update Nahimic here Updates Archive - Nahimic

The exe is here https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/n...mic+2.5.31.exe

DooGie said:

I personally think that build 8668 is better than 8666, a more solid sound.

8668 now my best of the year, I'm finding it actually better than 8 in the same way, more solid and even better detailed.