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Unlocked Realtek HD Audio Drivers Windows 7 & 8 (With Dolby Digital Live and DTS Interactive)

that's it perfect explanation Ruben :toast:
 
Didn't work on ALC892, mobo is: ASUS F2A85 V-Pro.
 
Ruben Portier said:
Glad to help :)



What operating system do you have? Do you receive any error messages?
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It installed with 271 but no sound, error on installation with 272 and 273 and i have win 8.1 64bit.
 
PCGamerDR said:
It installed with 271 but no sound, error on installation with 272 and 273 and i have win 8.1 64bit.
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You've installed version 271 successfully, and are trying to install a newer version of the driver (272 or 273)? I would recommend the latest version 275, which is unlock-able via the 'alternative 1 (A1)'. Did you follow the exact instructions? What is the error you receive on installation? Do you get any audio/sound when using version 271 unlocked-drive?
 
Ruben Portier said:
You've installed version 271 successfully, and are trying to install a newer version of the driver (272 or 273)? I would recommend the latest version 275, which is unlock-able via the 'alternative 1 (A1)'. Did you follow the exact instructions? What is the error you receive on installation? Do you get any audio/sound when using version 271 unlocked-drive?
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I have not tried beyond 273 as i didn't find the post in the thread with the new ones xD, if you could point them out i'd gladly try them :D and yep i followed instructions.
 
predprey said:
Windows Vista / 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10 - 32/64 bit - R2.79 A1/M1:
Code: 
http://rghost.net/6RfCvqBY9
Instructions inside README.txt
Thanks to 2bad for original modified drivers. Made using R2.79 original files.

For Windows 10 DTS/DDL bug, wait for official patch for by Microsoft.
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I have tried this method, it does work with ALC888 (DG31PR Intel Motherboard) but doesn't work on ALC1150 (MSI Z97-G45-GAMING).
Still the best solution for ALC1150 is DHTv4 or a new Sound Blaster Z :(
 
PCGamerDR said:
Didn't work on ALC892, mobo is: ASUS F2A85 V-Pro.
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I managed to unlock both DTS and DD Theater with 279, gonna check how they both play out tomorrow with my a/v receiver as i sadly managed to unlock them at 2am :"D.

Realtek ALC892
Win 8.1 Pro 64-bit

Edit: Works flawlessly when plugged to my a/v receiver via optical cable.
 
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subzero_sv said:
I have tried this method, it does work with ALC888 (DG31PR Intel Motherboard) but doesn't work on ALC1150 (MSI Z97-G45-GAMING).
Still the best solution for ALC1150 is DHTv4 or a new Sound Blaster Z :(
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Dont matter what sound card you get thou, you still wont get surround sound in games from optical on windows 10.
 
Daytrader said:
Dont matter what sound card you get thou, you still wont get surround sound in games from optical on windows 10.
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I'm not using Windows 10, I'm using Windows 8.1 x64 Pro in both pc's. :p
 
Windows 10 Insiders build 10565 seems to fix the digital output... haven't tested myself yet... waiting to get the update...
 
Anyone know if I can unlock my Creative core 3d sound card to use DTS and DDL? :(

I didn't do my research properly and I though the creative sound card had DTS and DDL so now I'm stuck :( If anyone could help I'd appreciate it....
 
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I can confirm that using Windows 10 Insiders build 10565 and R2.79 A1 method i'm getting DTS Connect on Games ( i tried Witcher 3, Assassin's Creed Unity, Star Wars Battlefront beta) using realtek alc1150 digital spdif output. On Far Cry 4 though i'm getting no sound, like i used on win 8.1 too (Ubisoft's bug i think). I haven't patched any XAudio2_ .dll
 
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I signed for insider, changed setting to get Fast updates but no updates appeared on the following hour. After some hours though update was in win 10 update menu.
 
mdd45 said:
I can confirm that using Windows 10 Insiders build 10565 and R2.79 A1 method i'm getting DTS Connect on Games ( i tried Witcher 3, Assassin's Creed Unity, Star Wars Battlefront beta) using realtek alc1150 digital spdif output. On Far Cry 4 though i'm getting no sound, like i used on win 8.1 too (Ubisoft's bug i think). I haven't patched any XAudio2_ .dll
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I wouldn't suggest trying to fix the Farcry 4 (also same issue in Watchdogs) audio. There are some dll edits you can make that fix the audio for the games, but they break it in a lot of other games. Just a heads up. Ubisoft confirmed that they're not going to fix it, and really it's not their problem to fix, it's Microsoft's. That is one issue Microsoft isn't ever going to fix.

(If anyone misunderstands this as me saying they won't fix the Windows 10 DDL issue, no I'm talking about XAudio2 - which both Watchdogs and Farcry 4 use - not working with DDL)
 
spoonhandle said:
I wouldn't suggest trying to fix the Farcry 4 (also same issue in Watchdogs) audio. There are some dll edits you can make that fix the audio for the games, but they break it in a lot of other games. Just a heads up. Ubisoft confirmed that they're not going to fix it, and really it's not their problem to fix, it's Microsoft's. That is one issue Microsoft isn't ever going to fix.

(If anyone misunderstands this as me saying they won't fix the Windows 10 DDL issue, no I'm talking about XAudio2 - which both Watchdogs and Farcry 4 use - not working with DDL)
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As i mentioned i haven't edited any xaudio2_*.dll's on windows 10 10565 . Moreover there is not any fix for far cry 4 and watch dogs using dd live and dts connect not only on windows 10 but even 7 and 8.1..... The new thing i found on my setup is that without editing any dll i have dts support on games on windows 10 10565 build and audio on all speakers, even though on 8.1 i had to patch the dll's else ihad only sound from the front speakers only without patching.
 
spoonhandle said:
I wouldn't suggest trying to fix the Farcry 4 (also same issue in Watchdogs) audio. There are some dll edits you can make that fix the audio for the games, but they break it in a lot of other games. Just a heads up. Ubisoft confirmed that they're not going to fix it, and really it's not their problem to fix, it's Microsoft's. That is one issue Microsoft isn't ever going to fix.

(If anyone misunderstands this as me saying they won't fix the Windows 10 DDL issue, no I'm talking about XAudio2 - which both Watchdogs and Farcry 4 use - not working with DDL)
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The XAudio2 doesn't "break" any games, Farcry 4 and Watchdogs are the only games that have problems with REALTEK, because people using "real" cards like sound blaster have no problems with that mod.
 
subzero_sv said:
The XAudio2 doesn't "break" any games, Farcry 4 and Watchdogs are the only games that have problems with REALTEK, because people using "real" cards like sound blaster have no problems with that mod.
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From using Creative's "fix" for Watchdogs and Farcry 4 on my Sound Blaster sound card, it seems to be a BS patch, they just push the stereo audio to all channels with it.

From my understanding, and please educate me if you have more information, It is a problem with XAudio2 and DDL, not just realtek (which is why Creative came up with the "fix" that they did).

Quoting the original MSDN post by federken that listed a way to fix it:

"I recently stumbled across this problem again and investigated a little further.

XAudio2 seems to query PKEY_AudioEngine_DeviceFormat to determine the speaker configuration. This is a WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE structure. XAudio2 does not check its "SubFormat" field for AC3/Dolby Digital. It always assumes some kind of PCM. And apart from the subformat GUID, a DDLive WAVEFORMATEX looks like stereo (2channel, 48kHz, 16bit - because an AC3 bitstream is compressed and fits into the bandwitdth of stereo PCM)!

A proper solution would to fix the XAudio2 speaker detection, e.g. query the MixFormat with IAudioClient::GetMixFormat, which is 6ch 48kHz 32bit float for DDLive.

A hacky work-around involves patching the XAudio DLLs (XAudio2_*.dll in both \Windows\System32 and \Windows\SysWOW64). I replaced the binary value for the PKEY_AudioEngine_DeviceFormat property key (hex: 4D 06 9F F1 2C 08 27 4E BC 73 68 82 A1 BB 8E 4C 00 00 00 00) in these DLLs with a value for a key from the registry which looked more like 6-channel. In my system with a Realtek HDAudio chip, I chose the registry key "{e4870e26-3cc5-4cd2-ba46-ca0a9a70ed04},0", which might be related to the "OEMFormat". The hex value to replace the value above is accordingly "26 0e 87 e4 c5 3c d2 4c 46 ba ca 0a 9a 70 ed 04 00 00 00 00".

I checked this with the Xaudio2 sample from the DX10 SDK and with a Xaudio2-enabled game. Both give me proper 5.1 surround sound now.

However, I really hope to see this fixed by Microsoft." (http://xboxforums.create.msdn.com/forums/t/22533.aspx)

I hex edited the dll files myself as he did and confirmed that it fixes the issue for the games on both the onboard realtek audio with the DDL unlocked drivers AND the Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 Pro without having to do Creative's bogus work around.

This problem has existed since the change from Windows XP to Vista in 2008 and is NOT only with Watchdogs and Farcry 4, as the problem existed before those games did.

http://answers.microsoft.com/thread/304c4dc9-ea55-48f4-b08b-9946700763fe
http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyt...en-vista-windows-7-when-xaudio2-api-used.html
http://forums.seriouszone.com/showthread.php?t=61046
 
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I patched xaudio2_*.dll but still Far cry 4 doesn't have sound with dts connect....
 
mdd45 said:
I patched xaudio2_*.dll but still Far cry 4 doesn't have sound with dts connect....
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I hadn't tested it with DTS Connect since the only devices I would use this with only support Dolby Digital, but it took me a while going through all the dll files that it has to be edited on, and as federken mentioned it had to be done on all of them in both System32 and SysWOW64 before I was able to get it working.

Just out of curiosity, what type of audio setup is everyone using to need DDL or DTS Connect?
 
Ive been using dtsconnect since unlock driver came out. with a 15y old amp via coaxial.
Even with xaudio2 dlls patched , i had to use some virtual audio device driver like Virtual Audio Cable to get surround sound in Farcry4. Again with xaudio2, stereo to 5.1 upmixing doesnt really work in pcsx2 and dolphin emu(lle audio) . flash videos doesnt work neither, html5 does. youtube.com/watch?v=zYfqaWSZiuk
 
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