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pal1000 / Realtek-UAD-generic

An unofficial package of generic Realtek Universal Audio Driver made from parts of various OEM specific Reatek Universal Audio drivers intended to work on legacy systems lacking OEM UAD support.
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How to update? #177

Open splintering opened 1 month ago

splintering commented 1 month ago

I installed 6.0.9718.1 on a more or less freshly installed Win11 - no previous Realtek drivers were present. Installation went smoothly, even the Realtek Audio Control was installed through the store (interestingly in the Asus version - does the store know about my mainboard and fetch a customized installer?).

Without any need I came here after that to see if there is an updated package. So I downloaded 6.0.9738.1 and ran the setup.cmd again. During step "Removing generic Realtek UAD components..." I got a repeating error that a driver cannot be removed because it is being used by a device.

I tried a lot of things to overcome that, including forceupdate, going into safe mode, deactivating the device on Windows level, and now even on BIOS level, but still the same result:

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DriverStoreExplorer always shows the same three drivers that cannot be removed:

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forceupdater seems to fail with a file not found error:

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(or maybe that is no issue, because after that the rest of the forceupdater runs thorugh without further errors).

I am not sure what the correct way would have been to update the package and now think I should not have done it at all because everything was running fine... Also if I reactivate the devices I do have sound and maybe no need to install the driver package after all, My main motivation was to have up-to-date drivers without the usual bloatware.

Any hints would be appreciated :-)

pal1000 commented 1 month ago

Do you something attached that uses your sound card?

does the store know about my mainboard and fetch a customized installer?).

Realtek Audio console detects motherboard vendor from first 4 digits of SUBSYS value of your sound card hardware ID. It has special skins for ASUS and MSI at least.

splintering commented 1 month ago

Do you something attached that uses your sound card?

No, I deliberately disconnected everything before I tried it the last time. I even rebooted a couple of times, and it was the same result in safe mode (but it seemed to me that the audio device was as active in safe mode as in normal mode).