Realtek Realtek High Definition Audio - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Realtek High Definition Audio is a MEDIA hardware device. The developer of this driver was Realtek. HDAUDIO/FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0255&SUBSYS_10280642 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Install Realtek Realtek High Definition Audio driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Realtek Realtek High Definition Audio driver. The archive contains version 6.0.1.7738 dated 2016-02-02 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control (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 quite easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will analyze your computer and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes shutdown and restart your PC 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.
The file size of this driver is 75386211 bytes (71.89 MB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 4.6 stars out of 72255 votes.
This driver was released for 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 High Definition 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 can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Open DriverMax and click on the yellow button named ~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 High Definition Audio driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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