03-01-2023 07:40 AM
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03-04-2023 05:11 PM
Jimbo93 wrote:
I ended up having to reinstall Armoury Crate after removing the realtek audio driver and realtek audio contol app. Works perfect then. The microsoft installed audio drivers have excellent sound/performance, so no real loss there.
03-04-2023 05:34 PM
RogScott wrote:
That's really concerning, if AC is now incompatible with the Realtek drivers. I need the Realtek drivers, because the Microsoft drivers don't provide any way to boost the audio of the side or rear speakers in 5.1 or 7.1, whereas Realtek does. So I am not willing to give Asus a "pass" on screwing up AC again, if it does indeed turn out that it breaks Realtek.
03-05-2023 02:00 AM
03-05-2023 07:14 AM
Jimbo93 wrote:
I ended up having to reinstall Armoury Crate after removing the realtek audio driver and realtek audio contol app. Works perfect then. The microsoft installed audio drivers have excellent sound/performance, so no real loss there.
Additional explanation. The first time 5.4.10.0 upgraded my armoury crate there was broken functionality like it wouldn't log me in or stay logged in. The motherboard device would appear and disappear when launching the program interface, very poor responsiveness of the app in general. I uninstalled AC with the uninstall tool and resinstalled which means the programs was version 5.3.4 again. Then I opened microsoft store and proceeded to update to 5.4.10, but the result was the same as before. At some point I discovered that my realtek audio control app stopped functioning. I also noted that the realtek driver was not showing on the AC tools page with AC version 5.4.10. Interesting, not sure what that means. But I uninstalled the realtek driver and app from settings-apps, then I used driver store explorer to remove all realtek driver files in the driver store, restarted the system and reinstalled Armoury Crate, upgraded to 5.4.10 and it functions perfectly now. The sound quality is probably better with the microsoft driver anyway.
03-05-2023 07:27 AM