But VIA hasnot releasedany sound drivers for this OS.
Also the current homepage does not list any hd audio drivers.
The industry also has changed.
More likely you will not find any audio codes for Windows 11 or 10.
You have to use the old version available on other sites.
you’re free to install it in compatibility mode, if required.
Along with it, theVIA HD Audio Deckalso gets installed in Windows 10 or 8.1 or 7.
The interface may vary from OS version to version.
But for Windows 7, you could get only two types of audio drivers.
VIA Envy24 PCI Audio Controllers2.
VIA Vinyl HD Audio Codecs
For old PCs, you’re able to use the second option.
Sometimes, the legacy motherboards and sound cards are compatible with Vista or XP or 98 or 95.
For these OSes also, drivers are provided.
http://download.viatech.com/en/support/driversSelect.jsp
Sometimes, theMicrosoft HD audio driveris installed automatically in Windows 10.
But it may not work with some motherboards and sound cards.
With every computer, you havedefault audio jackcoming from the your CPU cabinet.
Otherwise, to be secure, safe you’re free to install a sound card.
These days you get anUSB sound cardfromCreative or Acer.
This is gives good surround sound and audio boost.
Sometimes, this default audio driver from Microsoft, may not be compatible with new or old motherboards.
The sound is missing or quality is not good.
It is important to keep it up to date to avoid compatibility, performance, orsound quality issues.
There are several ways to download the VIA HD Audio Deck driver for Windows 10 64-bit.
It starts with Windows, if you dont change the prefs.
Otherwise, you’re able to invoke it from the Control Panel.
you might increase or decrease the volume using the via audio deck.
Speaker Setting and Test2.
Default format it’s possible for you to set Sample Rate and Bit depth3.
Environmental Modeling
You will have different presets for sound equalizer modeling.
you’ve got the option to also set custom frequency and can be saved.
In the environmental feature, you have different modes like Theater, Underwater, Club, Auditorium, Bathroom.
Note: But sometimes these does not work, when you are not using the right audio codec.
Also these features may not be supported on your motherboard.
HD Audio Configuration with ac97 windows 10
Is yourWindows audio not working?
The playback orrecording devices may not be workingor both.
I have a Creative headset and desktop speakers respectively.
Normally in the morning Id be using the speakers to hear the sound and the headset in the night.
I am using the audio-jack or the 3.5mm variant to connect both these devices to my computer.
Im using the Windows 8.1 64 bit OS.
This was in the 32-bit variant and in Windows 7 version.
The mother board that I was using was Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.G41MT-S2P (Socket 775).
The audio driver I was using wasVIA HD Audio.
When I referred the specs the audio codec driver that is required was VIA VT2021 codec.
Trouble-shooting Steps to solve this issue
I installed the above codec from VIA and re-started the system.
The latest version was 6.0.10.1200.
But that didnt solve the problem.
Normally that solves it.
But in 64 bit and with my specific devices and drivers, I was still having this problem.
Then I repeated the above steps few times, with no result.
But I had two such system devices in mydevice manager.
I was using theNVIDIA GeForce 210graphics card.
With the installation of that rig, even audio drivers got installed.
I also tried to uninstall them, but of no vain.
Then the PC asked me to restart.
After it was done, the above controllers and audio drivers got automatically installed.
I thought the problem would be resolved by now.
I still couldnt listen to the sound.
Then I went to Sound item in Control Panel.
In the Playback tab I could see both the audio devices (headset and speakers) listed.
By default, the headset was taken as the default playback machine.
But still the audio was not coming from headset even.
Then, I made the speakers the default playback rig.
Then I could hear the audio.
Ha, finally after some suffering, I fixed this problem.
Conclusion
Hmm.
I thought I resolved the problem, but only partially.
Whenever I remove the headset jack and insert the speakers jack, I still get the same problem.
In Windows 10, Im not having any problems related to VIA.
So then I had to resort to the same troubleshooting process again, which was little irritating.
Sometimes, I had to re-drop in the audio driver and re-boot the system.
So I think VIA, Creative and Microsoft should do something in fixing this issue.
