Realtek Realtek Gaming GBE Family Controller - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Realtek Gaming GBE Family Controller is a Network Adapters hardware device. The developer of this driver was Realtek. PCI/VEN_10EC&DEV_8168&SUBSYS_B7581458&REV_16 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. How to manually install Realtek Realtek Gaming GBE Family Controller driver

1. Download the driver setup file for Realtek Realtek Gaming GBE Family Controller driver from the location below. This download link is for the driver version 8.056.0627.2017 released on 2017-06-27.
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3. Start the driver setup file from a Windows account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is running then you will have to accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver setup wizard, which should be pretty easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will analyze your PC for compatible devices and will install the driver.
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7. Shutdown and restart your PC and enjoy the updated driver, it is as simple as that.
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Realtek applied a digital signature to this driver.
Size of this driver: 611151 bytes (596.83 KB)
Driver rating 4.7 stars out of 39992 votes.
This driver is fully compatible with the following versions of Windows:

• 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 Gaming GBE Family Controller driver

The most important 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, not just this one. How easy can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's take a look!

1. Open DriverMax and click on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the Realtek Realtek Gaming GBE Family Controller driver. Click on Update.
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5. Enjoy using the updated driver! :)
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