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I have a question:
I wonder if it is actually recommended to update such audio drivers. I mean, this is not like NVIDIA GPU drivers where they mostly tell you when a driver update is available and recommend you to install it. In my mind, GPU's also mostly need such updates, but Audio devices, not really.
I wonder if your computer can handle later Realtek audio driver version than the one that was installed on your device from the beginning. I did have an issue with my sound before and it occured after I updated the Realtek audio drivers before.
The issue was that files like .mp3 or .avi , etc could not play the sounds in any media player. Windows media player gave an error and other media players (VLC) just didn't do anything when I pressed the play button. Video files on the other hand did play, but completely silent. However videos from the internet (YouTube) did play sound. (games or anything on the computer itself did not, except the "ticking" sound when browsing through folders in the explorer)
The only way I could fix it was to disable the sound effects in the Speakers settings (Playback devices), something which I never had to do until 1 sudden day. I blame the audio driver update for it, but it could be something else...
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