I'm back but still recovering from my surgery I had about two weeks ago.
here's what I have when I installed the modded 8308 driver with DDL/DTS on my spare Hewlett-Packard m8417c media center PC with Win10 v1607 LTSB with a Realtek ALC888S audio chip:
by the way I have made a DDL/DTSi Realtek mod of my own based on v8328 with the Realtek APO DLL files already patched (
MS Onedrive link) (
Google drive link); need at least a Realtek ALC8xxx series desktop or all-in-one PC based realtek audio chip - may also work with the relatively new ALC1220 & ALC1168 chips as well; DTS connect/DTS interactive is not available for laptop based Realtek ALC2xx/3xx audio chips. also need a digital audio out port like SPDIF or HDMI. The HP m8417c computer had an orange SPDIF coaxial audio out port at the back that I can use an old Sony home theater 5.1 speaker sound system to hook up with with the coaxial cable.
wow making my own realtek mods was hard work; uploading them was another challenge; I had to use my relative's cable internet connection to upload them (yes, DSL & satellite internet connections suck bigtime for uploading 100Mb+ files)
I do have another realtek mod planned that integrates with sound blaster connect 2 (aka. sound blasterx 720 or whatever) but does not include DDL/DTS enhancements; whatever comment I had earlier about sound blaster connect 2, I was wrong. it seems to work with many audio devices, possibly on non-Realtek audio chips as well (but requires version 1.2.65.x of the mbapo232.dll & mbapo264.dll files or better). SBConnect 2 is basically "MB6", newer than X-FI MB5. still requires generating a bunch of kga activation files to actually get the SBConnect 2 working.