Realtek Audio Driver Messes Entire Windows 10 Computer

[Noah_24]

Attempting to use my Realtek Audio driver that came with my computer cause literally tens of things to go wrong on my computer forcing me to inevitably restart. Obviously, this is incredibly impractical, because the Realtek driver houses the equalizer settings for my audio. Firstly after using the driver, the driver will become inoperable if I jump to another application requiring me to force quit it. Next, trying to type anything into google chrome (like maybe searching for an answer to this ridiculous problem) will instantly crash chrome (as well as MS Edge). Attempting to alt tab freezes the alt tab window hub to the screen. Attempting to open task manager will cause it to crash instantly and will block itself from being closed. Nothing fixes these problems except for a hard reboot. I just want to mess with the damn equalizer for 30 seconds and in turn get thirty minutes of absolutely explainable problems for no apparent reason. Please, someone shed some light on this sorry excuse of a problem.

Update: Yea, it's not just Chrome and Edge anymore, now typing into a type box on anything will crash it. Wait it gets even better. Now the Realtek audio drivers no longer even recognize the 3.5 mm jacks and only recognized the optical jack on my computer and my computer won't recognize any headphone/speaker that I plug into any 3.5 mm port. This minor problem has spiraled out of control into a massive problem that I have literally no clue how to solve. Someone please help me understand this as I have little time to mess with this kind of crap and I am hopelessly frustrated.

 

[Noah_24]

I think I actually may have found a solution if anyone stumbles upon this thread with the same issue. All these malfunctions may not have been cause by Realtek audio drivers at all. I think it was NZXT CAM running its FPS overlay in the background and it has been having disputes with many other programs. The only reason I disabled the overlay was because I was hearing my CPU fan spike on idle and that made me check what processes were running, and lo and behold, CAM taking a whopping 20% of my CPU, just to display an overlay on games that aren't even being run. Fixed the overlay settings in the CAM app and voila! No more app crash on keyboard input. Definitely one of the strangest solutions I've had with one of the strangest problems I've had on a PC. I pray that that was indeed the solution.