John Vere Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 Here's a question- All of my laptops and desktops only show " High Definition Audio Device" in any place that I investigate. Is this a W10 generic driver issue? In other words I have no clue who actually made the on board sound chip. I could have a realtech and not even know this unless I go and look up what my mobo is and so forth. The reason I ask is possibly the very pour performance experience with on board audio is due to not having the proper driver installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Borthwick Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 High def audio device is the Microsoft supplied driver that wraps several chipsets including realtek. You can find out what onboard chipset you have via the MSINFO system info utility. My info looks like this. If this is a custom built PC I think by default Windows 10 will use HDAUDIO.SYS. This should be ok generally since it supports the Win10 low latency audios stuff but you may be able to get a manufacturer driver that has better support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Fogle Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 10 hours ago, John Vere said: Here's a question- All of my laptops and desktops only show " High Definition Audio Device" in any place that I investigate. Is this a W10 generic driver issue? In other words I have no clue who actually made the on board sound chip. I could have a realtech and not even know this unless I go and look up what my mobo is and so forth. The reason I ask is possibly the very pour performance experience with on board audio is due to not having the proper driver installed. CPU-ID is a free, mature and well known utility application that will poll all your motherboard chips as well as accessories and display a report of what you have. The application is less than 2 MB. You can download the app here: CPU-ID Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Vere Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 (edited) Hey Jim thanks for that, I downloaded it and ran it on this office computer and then I googled what it say's my Mobo is Asrok H97Pro4 and under audio the good news is this Audio: Realtek ALC892 7.1-Channel High Definition Audio CODEC; Supports Premium Blu-ray Audio So now I will see if there is a proper driver for this as I have a feeling it's running on a W10 generic. I know I had huge issues with the graphic card and it was because of this after I installed W10 I had to get the proper Nvidia driver and all was good after that. I built this machine from scratch using mostly on sale parts. I added the graphic card so I could use it for watching movies on a TV. The on board didn't have HDMI. I don't really use it much for a DAW but it's nice to edit stuff on. Update- Well that was a dead end as the driver is dated 2015 and say's Vista.. Edited November 7, 2020 by John Vere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Borthwick Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 Havent tried this but it may be worth checking out.https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/realtek-audio-control/9p2b8mcsvpln?activetab=pivot:overviewtab# https://www.tenforums.com/sound-audio/135259-latest-realtek-hd-audio-driver-version-2-a.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Vere Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 Thanks Noel I'll give that a try. This is a silly project but I'm always a sucker for winning a fight with Windows! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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