So for some time now, a number of games have been causing stuttering issues on my computer. A latency monitor pegged one of the culprits as my sound driver (Realtek HD Audio), so I attempted to update it with drivers from the builder's website. Unfortunately there were two problems: The website sucks in telling you exactly which model the drivers are for, and the installer doesn't check to see if the new drivers are valid before uninstalling the old ones.
Whee.
So having to track down the proper drivers from the Realtek site (which is an object lesson in absolutely garbage web design, and also limits downloads to twenty KILOBYTES per second), I installed them properly, and found that the stuttering virtually disappeared, but ran into another problem- the Audio Manager, Realtek's separate program for managing audio options, absolutely will not work with this version. The issue here is that the Audio Manager is the ONLY apparent way to get the computer's front audio jacks to work (which is very useful for having both headphones and speakers attached). The only potential fix I've found is going back to the previous drivers.
Does anyone know of another way to get the front audio jacks to work in Windows 10?
Whee.
So having to track down the proper drivers from the Realtek site (which is an object lesson in absolutely garbage web design, and also limits downloads to twenty KILOBYTES per second), I installed them properly, and found that the stuttering virtually disappeared, but ran into another problem- the Audio Manager, Realtek's separate program for managing audio options, absolutely will not work with this version. The issue here is that the Audio Manager is the ONLY apparent way to get the computer's front audio jacks to work (which is very useful for having both headphones and speakers attached). The only potential fix I've found is going back to the previous drivers.
Does anyone know of another way to get the front audio jacks to work in Windows 10?