When it comes to recording options, you’ll also be able to tweak the left/right balance, as well as enable or disable far-field pickup (this allows your voice to be picked up by the microphone even when you’re not directly in front of it) or to disable the microphone effect. You’ll also be able to choose default formats for playing both CDs and DVDs, choosing from between 16 and 24 bits, and then listen to the settings you have chosen.
Chances are you’ll be able to edit both recording and playing options.įor the speakers, you’ll be able to configure where the sound comes from (left vs. If you manage to access a graphic interface for your Realtek HD Audio Drivers, you’ll probably have access to a variety of options regarding the way you hear music. This variety of options is confusing, and the fact that it is hard to know which one will work for you means that only users who are very interested in their audio set-up will bother following it through to the bitter end. Others will need to interact with the drivers by accessing the Realtek program files and opening RtkNGUI64, while yet more people will need to access the Realtek Audio HD manager via the control panel. Some users will be able to use a Windows Store app called Realtek Audio Console. Interacting with your Realtek driversĭepending on your computer, interacting with your drivers will be more or less easy. If you’re unlucky, your computer will also use this time to install other updates, delaying the process further. You, as a user, will have to do relatively little, but you do have to let it play out. Even in the best-case scenario, this is a little time-consuming - the old drivers must be uninstalled and the computer restarted, and the new ones must be installed, and the computer restarted again. If you’re lucky, the whole process will be relatively straightforward - download, open, and follow the install wizard. MSI has instructions here.Realtek HD Audio Drivers are famously unpredictable to download and install. If the above steps fixed the sound, you may need to "hide" the Realtek HD audio driver so future Win 10 updates won't mess with it. You'll need to use the "Service" menu at the top of the page. This is a volunteer user-to-user forum and you cannot contact MSI here. If it does not, then MSI may need to provide you with a newer version of the driver that is compatible with the current release of Win 10. Reboot and see if that restored the sound. It sounds like your audio was broken by the latest Win 10 update.ġ - Download the latest Realtek HD audio driver for your GP73 8RE from its download page here.Ģ - Uninstall the Nahimic software, if it's installed.ģ - Launch the Windows Device Manager, open the properties for your sound device, select its "Driver" tab and uninstall any driver that's there.Ĥ - Still at the sound device "Driver" tab of the Device Manager, use the "Update/Install Driver" button, navigate to the driver you downloaded, and install it. I?ve checked all windows updates are currentĪt this point I just don?t know what else to do. I?ve tried doing a system restore prior to 29Apr however there was a windows corral update I downloaded last night when checking for updates and it won?t allow me to restore earlier than 30 Apr. I?ve tried running audio troubleshooter and it detects nothing is wrong. Tried uninstalling the drivers and restarting laptop.
I have removed the high definition audio drivers and then check for hardware changes and it immediately puts them back under system devices with the same error code. However I can find the drivers under apps and features. The download goes through install wizard and restarts my laptop but they don?t appear under device manager. I have tried downloading from MSI Realtek drivers and it won?t take them. I checked device manager and noticed 2 things:Ģ) high definition audio controller was under system device and not sound controllers and had a yellow triangle icon with a code 10 error. Highlighting it showed that no audio device installed. The other night i when it turned my laptop on I noticed a ?red x? on my sound icon. I have a MSI GP73 Leopard 8RE laptop with a Nvidia 1060, i7 core, 500gb ssd, 1tb Hdd, 16gb Ram.