Realtek audio drivers

[kyrcy]

What are the latest Windows 7 drivers for Realtek audio (ALC1150)? The motherboard manufacturer has long stopped releasing drivers and the official R2.82 seem outdated. What are the drivers available from the two following sites?

https://github.com/pal1000/Realtek-UAD-generic/releases/
https://github.com/alanfox2000/realtek-hda-release/releases/

[october262]

try here ?? - https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/realtek-hd-audio-driver-6018591-...5-d64bcc91686b

[kyrcy]

Your link points to another link that points to the second link I posted above.

[redwudz]

Just from a quick Internet search, it appears version R2.82 is the latest version (June 2017) for the ALC1150 on W7.
But other members may have better information.

[kyrcy]

With R2.82 the Realtek HD Audio Manager is not installed and also a mic or headphones are not automatically detected when plugged in the front panel.

[flashandpan007]

What Mainboard do you have?

[kyrcy]

A Gigabyte Z97.

[flashandpan007]

There are several different ones. Which one exactly?

[kyrcy]

GA-Z97X-Gaming 5

[flashandpan007]

I checked other Realtek Audio chips as well, but I can not find any newer driver version like R2.82.

How big is the installer of your R2.82 driver package?

[kyrcy]

It's the 258mb installer for 64-bit.

[flashandpan007]

Ok, sorry I can not help you with that, I switched to Win10 several years ago and there Microsoft driver is used which works fine, but I only tried it with a pc Soundsystem once, I use HDMI and/or SPDIF on my computers, so not really needed here on my side.

What older version works for you?
But if you found a solution for your issue post it here, it my help others as well.

[kyrcy]

The version from the motherboard manufacturer works but it's old. I believe the drivers from the two sites above are newer than the official R2.82.

[locotus]

Perhaps you may find realtek audio drivers updates through windows update.

[kyrcy]

Perhaps you may find realtek audio drivers updates through windows update.

For Windows 7?

[october262]

Perhaps you may find realtek audio drivers updates through windows update.

For Windows 7?

did you try going into device manager and selecting audio/sound properties - click update driver ??

[kyrcy]

did you try going into device manager and selecting audio/sound properties - click update driver ??

"The best driver software for your device is already installed"

[locotus]

There's no new driver after R2.82.
https://www.realtek.com/en/component/zoo/category/pc-audio-codecs-high-definition-audi...odecs-software

[valvehead]

With R2.82 the Realtek HD Audio Manager is not installed and also a mic or headphones are not automatically detected when plugged in the front panel.

It's probably installed but not set to start automatically.

Try to open RAVCpl64.exe located in C:\Program Files\Realtek\Audio\HDA

I don't use the manager myself since I don't need hotswitching of connectors. Windows' own sound settings is all I need. I'm on Windows 10 Pro x64 1903 though.

[kyrcy]

I believe the drivers from the two links in my first post are newer than the R2.82.

[october262]

I believe the drivers from the two links in my first post are newer than the R2.82.

have you tried installing the new drivers yet ?? - https://github.com/pal1000/Realtek-UAD-generic

and - https://github.com/alanfox2000/realtek-universal-audio-driver

[kyrcy]

I have installed the drivers from the link below:

https://github.com/alanfox2000/realtek-hda-release/releases/

[kyrcy]

It's probably installed but not set to start automatically.

Try to open RAVCpl64.exe located in C:\Program Files\Realtek\Audio\HDA

I don't use the manager myself since I don't need hotswitching of connectors. Windows' own sound settings is all I need. I'm on Windows 10 Pro x64 1903 though.

RAVCpl64.exe is located in C:\Program Files\Realtek\Audio\HDA, but it does not open.

Driver version of R2.82 is 6.0.1.8186.

Driver version from https://github.com/alanfox2000/realtek-hda-release/releases/ is 6.0.8720.1.

Why the different numbering?