Confused about audio drivers. Please help

[obviousfrog]

I have an Asus Maximus VII Hero. I updated all drivers from the Asus motherboard support website. Now I have two audio drivers. 1 is HD Audio Device. 2 is Realtek HD Audio. The HD audio device is from Microsoft. Which one can I uninstall? Something is causing 1 second delay audio lag. I feel that these two are counteracting each other.

 

[junkeymonkey]

well is one for the realtek chip and the other is for like vid card ?? like amd vid card drivers has a HD Audio in them and its listed that way in device manager under audio devices

 

[junkeymonkey]

just look up something like this ?? maybe a asus deal ??

http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?34562-Realtek-HD-Audio-HDMI-Output-vs-Intel-HDMI-output-(Maximus-VI-Hero)

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?board_id=1&model=Z87-PRO&id=20130911061614945&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

 

[obviousfrog]

I had the Nvidia hd audio installed, but i uninstalled that. Now im left with these two. If i disable realtek, then there is sound. If i disable hd audio there is no sound. Its so wierd. I have an optical cord in the spdif spot. Why is this so confusing?

well is one for the realtek chip and the other is for like vid card ?? like amd vid card drivers has a HD Audio in them and its listed that way in device manager under audio devices

 

[junkeymonkey]

well I would think the Microsoft one maybe the built in to windows default driver and may not try to remove that , but it would seem if the primary driver like the one you get from asus for the realtek chip gets properly installed it should override the Microsoft one load it up

I think I would uninstall the realtek one and then try to reinstall it


'' I have an optical cord in the spdif spot''

I never had to use that so cant help with what goes on there [sorry]

or check in to the realtek hd audio manager to insure the settings there are correct and configured in it

 

[obviousfrog]

Ok. To clear things up. I figured out Realtek is for the motherboard and Hd audio device is the graphics card. The optical spdif was not working because i had both sides pluggled into "OUT"... So now I am wondering what is the nvidia hd audio for?

 

[junkeymonkey]

that's when you use the card to carry sound to say your display device built in speakers - like if I wanted to use the hdtv speakers I can switch over to them through the vid card supported connection