Driver for Realtek Realtek Audio - downloading and installing it

Realtek Audio is a MEDIA hardware device. This driver was developed by Realtek. The hardware id of this driver is INTELAUDIO/FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0256&SUBSYS_1028078C; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Realtek Realtek Audio - install the driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Realtek Realtek Audio driver. The archive contains version 6.0.1.8386 dated 2018-03-01 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is started please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will scan your computer and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes shutdown and restart your computer in order to use the updated driver. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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Realtek applied a digital signature to this driver.
Download size of the driver: 23345786 bytes (22.26 MB)
Driver rating 4.7 stars out of 4045 votes.
This driver is fully compatible with the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows Vista 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 64 bits

2. Using DriverMax to install Realtek Realtek Audio driver

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will install the driver for you in the easiest possible way and it will keep each driver up to date. How easy can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's take a look!

1. Open DriverMax and press on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to scan and analyze each driver on your computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of available driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the Realtek Realtek Audio driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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