[SOLVED] Large Sound Variance with newer Drivers

[austinstama]

The sound driver I use is the High Definition Audio Device using model of same name when choosing driver from computer. I believe this is an old driver and my computer warns me when using it, however, using any other driver causes me issues. A general example, sounds of the same volume slider have large sound variance. Lets say in a video game, there are two unique sounds, lets say a water sound and wind sound in the same environment sound tab. With my old driver, these sounds have similar volumes in comparison like one would expect. However when I have a new driver installed (usually Windows updates), suddenly lets say the water sound is overwhelmingly loud while the wind sound is super quiet.

The above example is not specific, but similar to the issue (if needed I could find a specific example for games I deal with). This is currently an issue because I am wanting to use Voicemeeter but its causing the above issue. I am wondering if anyone here might know what could cause any newer driver to have this issue and/or a way to fix it. I do not mind having to fix all my volume sliders in order to transition but when the sounds of the same slider vary so drastically in volume, there is no way to fix that with just the given sliders, that I know of. Also happy to find any specs that might be needed. I am very clueless when it comes to the sound side of things so not sure what specs I would need to post.

Thanks for your time and assistance.

 

[CountMike]

The sound driver I use is the High Definition Audio Device using model of same name when choosing driver from computer. I believe this is an old driver and my computer warns me when using it, however, using any other driver causes me issues. A general example, sounds of the same volume slider have large sound variance. Lets say in a video game, there are two unique sounds, lets say a water sound and wind sound in the same environment sound tab. With my old driver, these sounds have similar volumes in comparison like one would expect. However when I have a new driver installed (usually Windows updates), suddenly lets say the water sound is overwhelmingly loud while the wind sound is super quiet.

The above example is not specific, but similar to the issue (if needed I could find a specific example for games I deal with). This is currently an issue because I am wanting to use Voicemeeter but its causing the above issue. I am wondering if anyone here might know what could cause any newer driver to have this issue and/or a way to fix it. I do not mind having to fix all my volume sliders in order to transition but when the sounds of the same slider vary so drastically in volume, there is no way to fix that with just the given sliders, that I know of. Also happy to find any specs that might be needed. I am very clueless when it comes to the sound side of things so not sure what specs I would need to post.

Thanks for your time and assistance.

High Definition Audio Device is just windows generic name for audio device. For proper drivers you must know what sound chip on which MB.

 

[austinstama]

High Definition Audio Device is just windows generic name for audio device. For proper drivers you must know what sound chip on which MB.

My MB is the ASUS Prime z270-P. The updated driver I use is Realtek High Definition Audio v6.0.8708.1. I tried googling to find the sound card associated with my MB but was not able to find anything outside just going off the driver in Device Manager. Any of the installed Realtek sound drivers seem to give me this high sound variance issue.

Edit: Some specific issues I have after installing the Realtek drivers are as follows:
One YouTube video might be quiet while the next has extremely high volume spikes while being all at the same volume.
Spotify goes from being normal to super quiet (which is easily fixable since I have my overall volume really low).
Most programs have a similar issue to Spotify, which sounds need to be increased or decreased.

YouTube specifically is what breaks everything, as videos are usually streamlined at a similar volume so I do not know why these drivers make the variance is volume so drastically different.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

Realtek audio drivers are very fussy. you need the exact version that shipped with your motherboard in many cases for it to work properly

 

[austinstama]

Realtek audio drivers are very fussy. you need the exact version that shipped with your motherboard in many cases for it to work properly

Guess this should of been an obvious thing to try. It does result in sounds being louder than usual but YouTube in general does seem to have the same overall volume so volume adjustments should fix that. Thanks for the suggestion, hopefully I do not run into something later I did not think to test right away.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

Yes I believe you can tell windows to not update your drivers automatically and then you would have to go seek out new drivers but I do that instead of letting it manage it because when I get a good set I keep it