Help with Realtek audio please
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Further to this thread:
https://sourceforge.net/p/equalizerapo/discussion/general/thread/1d780a11/
Seems the Realtek card in my new machine and EQ APO don't see eye to eye.
If I install EQ APO to Speakers and to Bluetooth, the Bluetooth output is perfect while the Speaker output is badly degraded on one channel. As soon as I unstall the APO from Speaker output the sound is normal.
Machine is a HP Pavilion on Windows 10 Home 64 bit, it has a Realtek sound card, drivers are current on v6.0.1.8004. It also has B&O Play, which might be interfering.
Can someone on here advise me on what I can disable/uninstall to allow EQ APO to work properly on Speaker output?
The first thing you can try is to disable the APOs that ship with the Realtek driver:
Open the Configurator, select your device by clicking on its connection name, enable the troubleshooting options and uncheck both "Use original APO" checkboxes.
Thanks for helping me with this Jonas- most appreciated.
When I uncheck both boxes EQ APO works great but the gain is very high and the master volume control on Peace has only 2 functions: on or off.
When I check only the top box, I have the same result - no volume control.
When I check the bottom box, I have volume control but sound is degraded and the level meter on Peace barely registers at normal listening levels.
Is this a sound card issue, a Windows 10 issue, or a 64-bit issue? I'm considering going to Windows 7 64 bit with this machine, but not if the problem is going to remain.
Last edit: Erik Andersen 2017-06-06
Hi Jonas, I just wanted to tell you that I have resolved the audio problem I had - the Realtek drivers are the culprit. I stopped Windows from auto-updating/installing drivers, disabled the Realtek drivers and then manually selected Microsoft High Definition Audio Device drivers. After reboot the system shows only that High Definition Audio Device drivers are installed and EQ APO and Peace work perfectly now. So the short story is that EQ APO and Peace work great on Windows 10 64 bit - just use the default Microsoft drivers if there's a snag.
Thank you for reporting the resolution. The Realtek drivers can be a problem, but they also work for a lot of people. I still don't see a pattern there.