

Choose to select the location of the new driver manually and browse to the folder where you extracted the driverĥ. Right click on the hardware device you wish to update and choose Update Driver SoftwareĤ. Go to Device Manager (right click on My Computer, choose Manage and then find Device Manager in the left panel), or right click on Start Menu for Windows 10 and select Device Managerģ.

In order to manually update your driver, follow the steps below (the next steps):ġ. Take into consideration that is not recommended to install the driver on Operating Systems other than stated ones. If the driver is already installed on your system, updating (overwrite-installing) may fix various issues, add new functions, or just upgrade to the available version. You should search exact model number on the manufacturers website if you want a particular models drivers.The package provides the installation files for Realtek High Definition Audio SST Driver version.


For most users, the package from Realtek original driver is the one to use. The Realtek Audio manger is packaged in a few different ways a direct from Realtek as version R2.82 or a custom pack as done by Intel or Sony for example. These generic drivers are extremely basic and sometimes simply can’t operate the sound card at all. Windows 10 has been getting more stringent with things like security and driver signing which will disable drivers and even stop installation drivers opting to install Microsoft’s own generic drivers that don’t include the audio manager. The R2.82 driver is still absolutely fine, however because it isn’t updated often by Realtek, Windows during an upgrade process with remove the driver. Realtek’s own support for the drivers has very little updates, in fact drivers for the Realtek audio drivers and audio manager haven’t been updated since July 2017, leaving us with version R2.82 in 2020. The Audio manager gives control of many extra settings that are not in Windows 10 such as speaker configurations, Sound effects and Virtual Surround settings. Realtek’s onboard sound card device drivers include an Audio Manager that is packaged with the installation of the Codec. After version updates/service packs within Microsoft Windows 11/10 versions or even major upgrade from Windows 7 or Windows 8 there has been a plague of issues related to Realtek sound device chipsets being removed during the process, even though the drivers for these earlier Operating Systems is the same, they get removed sometimes.
